Dr. Rania Milleron is a microbiologist at the Texas Department of State Health Services in Austin. She is both a biomedical scientist and a public health professional who always brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her work. She is not an engineer. But because of her outsider perspective, she was able to unify in a book voices that champion good works in engineering. That book is entitled Ethics, Politics and Whistleblowing in Engineering.

“In the healthcare profession, there’s an ethic that says ‘First, do no harm.’ What we’ve found in the engineering profession is there is more of an ethos that says, ‘Let’s design it now, and if it doesn’t turn out like we thought, we’ll just ask for forgiveness later.’ And so what the book is really about is how to bring that ‘First do no harm’ ethic into engineering.” Dr. Rania Milleron co-author of Ethics, Politics, and Whistleblowing in Engineering