Background
Whitbeck, Caroline was born on August 1, 1940 in Hudson, New York, United States.
researcher Mechanical engineering educator
Whitbeck, Caroline was born on August 1, 1940 in Hudson, New York, United States.
Technical assistant in mathematics The Mitre Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1963-1965. Lecturer in philosophy Yale University, New Haven, 1968-1970, assistant professor philosophy, 1970-1971, research associate in psychiatry, 1971-1973. Assistant professor philosophy State University of New York, Albany, 1973-1978.
Postdoctoral fellow Hastings Center, Hastings-on-the-Hudson, 1977-1978. Associate professor department preventive medicine and community health University Texas Medical University, Galveston, 1978-1982. Associate professor Massachusetts General Hospital Institute Health Professions, Boston, 1982-1984.
Research fellow Center for Policy Alternatives Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1982-1983, visiting associate professor Sch Engineering, 1983-1986, lecturer mechanical engineering, 1986-1988, research scholar Center Technology Policy and Industrial Development, 1986-1988, senior lecturer in mechanical engineering, 1988-1997. Professor mechanical engineering Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, since 1997. Consultant Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1978-1981, Canada Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies, Ottawa, 1990, Poynter Center Research Ethics, Bloomington, Indiana, 1992, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, 1992-1994.
Member committee on science, engineering public policy National Academy of Sciences, National Academy Engineering, Institute Medicine, 1994. Member task force on experience as a source of bioethics Cleveland Clinic, 1989. Member review panel NSH, National Endowment of the Humanities, 1980, 81, 85.
Presenter in field.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science (member committee on science freedom and responsibility 1989-1995). Member American Association of University Professors, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Society for Philosophy and Technology (board directors 1987-1991), American Association Bioethics, American Philosophical Association (committee on philosophy and medicine 1984-1987), Association for Practical and Professional Ethics, Association Massachusetts Institute of Technology Alumnae, Hastings Center, Philosophy of Science Association, Society Women in Philosophy, Society Women Engineers, Sigma Xi.
Married Donald E. Neelon. 1 child, Evelyn Ruth Whitbeck-Poorbaugh.