Polluting the Pristine: Using Mount Everest to Teach Environmental Ethics

Abstract

Marilyn Dyrud retired in 2017 as a professor emerita in the Communication Department at Oregon Institute of Technology, where she taught classes in writing, speech, rhetoric, and ethics for four decades. She has been a member of ASEE since 1983 and is active in two divisions: Engineering Ethics and Engineering Technology. She is an ASEE fellow ( 2008), winner of the James McGraw Award (2010), winner of the Berger Award ( 2013), the communications editor of the Journal of Engineering Technology, and the ETD mini-grant coordinator.