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Program in Science, Technology, and Society
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Louis L. Bucciarelli
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5-213 |
| Phone |
617-253-4061 |
| Email |
llbjr@mit.edu |
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Professor Bucciarelli received his B.S. from Cornell University (Mechanical Engineering, 1959) and his Ph.D. from MIT (Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1966). He was Director of MIT's Technology Studies Program, and has been a Curator of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian, Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, and Visiting Scientist at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (Ecole des Mines, Paris). He has received the Baker Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, has consulted for a wide range of industries, and has helped lead a coalition of engineering schools (ECSEL) in the renovation of undergraduate education.
In engineering, he works on the development of alternative energy and residential energy instrumentation systems. In STS he has moved from studies of 19th century physical science to ethnographic studies of the engineering design process. He is the author of Designing Engineers (1995).