2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

1. Ms. Casey Gibson http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4338-3489 National Academy of Engineering [biography]

   Casey Gibson, M.S., was an Associate Program Officer at the National Academy of Engineering of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine from 2023-2025. She primarily helped lead initiatives related to the Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program. Gibson holds an M.S. in Humanitarian Engineering and Science with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, along with a B.S. in Biological/Agricultural Engineering, B.A. in Spanish, and minor in Sustainability from the University of Arkansas. In addition, Gibson served as a Fulbright-García Robles Scholar in Mexico. She currently works as a Solutions Engineer for water resource conservation.

2. David A. Butler http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3423-0720 National Academy of Engineering [biography]

   David A. Butler, PhD, is the J. Herbert Hollomon Scholar of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) of the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and is the Founding Director of NAE’s Cultural, Ethical, Social, and Environmental Responsibility in Engineering program. Before joining the National Academies, Dr. Butler was an analyst for the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, a research associate in the Department of Environmental Health of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, conducted research at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and practiced as a product safety engineer at Xerox Corporation. He has directed numerous National Academies studies on engineering and environmental policy topics. Dr. Butler earned his BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering with a concentration in biomedical engineering from the University of Rochester and his PhD in public policy analysis from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of the National Academies’ Cecil Medal for Research.

3. Dr. Davis Chacon-Hurtado http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5722-3545 University of Connecticut [biography]

   Davis Chacon Hurtado, Ph.D., is an assistant research professor at UConn. He co-directs the Engineering for Human Rights Initiative, which is a collaboration between UConn’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the College of Engineering, and the Human Rights Institute, to promote and advance interdisciplinary research in engineering with a clear focus on societal outcomes. Davis is working with several faculty on campus to develop research and curriculum at the intersection of human rights and engineering, such as the one discussed herein. Davis completed his Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, in 2018. His research interests include transportation equity, human rights, environmental justice, and economic resilience. He grew up in Cusco, Perú, where he obtained his B.S. in civil engineering at the University of San Antonio Abad of Cusco. He also earned an MSCE degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

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