Gary Downey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology in Society and affiliated faculty in the Department of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech. He is Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering and was Distinguished Lecturer at the 2006 meeting of the American Society for Engineering Education and Keynote Lecturer at the 7th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Scotland. Trained as a mechanical engineer (B.S. Lehigh U 1974) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. U Chicago 1981), he is winner of Virginia Tech’s 1997 Diggs Teaching Scholar Award for scholarship in teaching, 2003 XCaliber Award for instructional technology, and 2004 William Wine Award for career excellence in teaching. He is author of The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers (Routledge 1998), co-developer of Engineering Cultures® multimedia courseware. Finally, he is co-editor of Engineering Studies, journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies, of which he is co-founder.