Faculty Profile

Taft H. Broome, Jr, D.Sc.
Professor

Education
B.S. (1966), Civil Engineering, Howard University.
M.S.C.E. (1968), Structural Mechanics, George Washington University.
D.Sc. (1972), Structural Mechanics, George Washington University.
M.S. (1985), Engineering Ethics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Specialty

• Structural Mechanics
• Engineering Ethics
• Engineering Education

Research

• Engineering Ethics
• Dynamics of Rigid Bodies
• Philosophy of Engineering

Publications

• Nixon, G., Adams, J.Q., Broome, T.H., et al. The Historically Black Colleges and Universities: A Future in the Balance. Academe, 81, No.1 (1995): 51-57.
• Rahulkumar, P., Broome, T.H. and Saigal, S. Dynamical Systems with Rigid-Body Degree-of-Freedom Oscillators. J. of Engineering Mechanics, 121, No.3, TN No. 5852 (1995): 487-491.
• Broome, T.H. On the Board. The Senate Communicator: Official publication of the HU Faculty Senate, 15, No.1 (Jan 1995): 3-4.
• Broome, T.H. Connecting Engineering, Science and the Humanities. Keynote Address, Interface ’95: Annual Conference, Society for Science and the Humanities, Marietta, GA, Oct. 19, 1995.
• Broome, T.H. The Heroic mentorship. Science Communication: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the Social Sciences, 17, No.4, (Jun 1996): 398-429.
• Broome, T.H. The Heroic Mentorship. Keynote Address. Survival Skills and Ethics Workshop, University of Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 1996.
• Broome, T.H. The Heroic Engineer. J. of Engineering Education, 86, No.1 (1997): 51-55, Jan.
• Broome, T.H. Engineers Rally As Youth Morale Declines. Invited Press Release: National Engineers Week, NSPE viz The Nolan/Lehr Group PR firm, New York, NY, 1998.
• Broome, T.H. 1998. On Sprague’s “The Voice of Experience.” Science and Engineering Ethics, 4, No.1 (1998): 45-50.