Joel Valan

Undergraduate Research Assistant

I am researching student, faculty, and industrial perceptions of ethics education. I ask questions like:

  • Do students feel like ethics lessons will be relevant for their career?
  • How should faculty integrate ethics instruction alongside an already demanding technical curriculum?
  • What do employers in industry expect of new hires with regards to their ethical awareness and decision-making?

Through answering these questions, I hope to reveal how attitudes towards ethics education can inform educators in embedding ethics into their engineering curricula.

Fun fact: I am a huge history nerd! I love digging into humorous and unusual moments from the past and sharing them with others.

Contact Information

  • Email Address: joel.valan@duke.edu
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Education

  • B.S.E Biomedical Engineering & Chemistry, 2026