
Dylan Cawthorne
Liste | Yngrelisten - de grønne STEMmer |
Alder / Age | 41 |
Arbejdssted / Workplace | University of Southern Denmark - Drone Center, Odense |
Uddannelse / Education | BSME, MSc, PhD |
Retning / Field | Aerospace, drone design, ethics and human values |
Since then, I have focused my life and my work on using ethics to inform technology design. My aim is to support the flourishing of humans and other life on the planet forever. I see myself as a champion for the use of ethics and human values in engineering, and as an activist engineer. A common theme in my work is the support of de-centralized technologies and democratic, grassroots organizations and methods.
I think my academic and industry experience make me a good candidate to address the following key issues:
- Ethics of technology - my main area of research is using value sensitive design methods and ethical principles to design and build technology - as documented in my PhD thesis.
- Environmental sustainability - I have developed more environmentally-sustainable drones, performed environmental impact assessments, and acted as foreperson for Repair Cafe Odense which directly addresses wasted and circular economy
- A holistic perspective - I work in a cross-disciplinary way which avoids narrow and sub-optimized problem statements and easy technological "solutions"; the problems of the future are broad and complex and should be addressed in a holistic way
My name is Dylan
Cawthorne, and I am an Associate Professor at the Drone
Center at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense. I was born
off-grid in Alaska, and have lived in Denmark for the past 10 years. I have a
bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, a masters in product design and
innovation, and a PhD with a thesis that was about using ethics in drone design.
I worked as an aerospace engineer in the US for ten years before moving to
Denmark. There, I worked at Boeing where I helped develop the 777 Freighter
aircraft and at Scaled Composites where I helped develop the manufacturing
process for the world's largest aircraft the Stratolaunch.
Since then, I have focused my life and my work on
using ethics to inform technology design. My aim is to support the flourishing
of humans and other life on the planet forever. I see myself as a champion for the use of ethics and human values in engineering, and as an activist engineer. A common theme in my work is the support
of de-centralized technologies and democratic, grassroots
organizations and methods.
I think my academic and
industry experience make me a good candidate to address the following key
issues:
- Ethics of technology - my main area of research is using value sensitive design methods and ethical principles to design and build technology - as documented in my PhD thesis.
- Environmental sustainability - I have developed more environmentally-sustainable drones, performed environmental impact assessments, and acted as foreperson for Repair Cafe Odense which directly addresses wasted and circular economy
- A holistic perspective - I work in a cross-disciplinary way which avoids narrow and sub-optimized problem statements and easy technological "solutions"; the problems of the future are broad and complex and should be addressed in a holistic way