In his talk, Kevin Jones, Ph.D. discusses how creating socially literate engineers can improve the successful impact of their innovations. Using his world-renowned Impact of Materials on Society course as a talking point, Jones encourages educators to equip engineering and non-engineering students with the tools needed to work in teams to create socially responsible engineering solutions. Dr. Kevin S. Jones is a Distinguished
Professor and holds the Fredrick N Rhines Chair
in the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering (MSE) at UF. He received his BS in MSE
from the University of Florida in 1980 and his MS
and PhD in MSE in 1987 from the U.C. Berkeley. He
has spent the past 33 years as a professor at the
University of Florida studying electronic materials.
He has published over 400 technical articles. He
is a fellow of the Materials Research Society (MRS),
the American Society of Materials (ASM) and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
(IEEE). He has won many awards including the 1990
Presidential Young Investigator Award from NSF,
the 2013 North American SEMI Award and the 2018
North America Award for Outstanding Contributions
to Materials Education. In 2018 he was named the
UF Teacher/Scholar of the Year and in 2020 he
was awarded the National Outstanding Materials
Educator Award by ASEE. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx