Jerry W. Gravander is Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Clarkson University. He has undergraduate degrees in chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology and in philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written and presented widely on liberal education for engineering students, as well as engineering ethics and the impacts of science and technology on society. He was the 1996 recipient of the Sterling Olmsted Award of the American Society for Engineering Education's Liberal Education Division.
