CURRICULUM VITAE
Harold P Sjursen
April 2019
EDUCATION
1971 - 1975 Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research Ph.D. Major: Philosophy, Minor: Political Theory
Advisors: Hannah Arendt & Hans Jonas
1969 - 1971 Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen.
Research Scholar: Søren Kierkeaard Institute Advisor: Niels Thulstrup
1966 - 1969 Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, M.A. Major: Philosophy
Advisor: Seth Benardette
1960 – 1964 St Olaf College, B.A.
Majors: Philosophy & Psychology Minors: English & Religion
1960 (U.S.) FCC Engineering License
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
September 2018 -- Visiting Professor of Engineering Ethics, School of General
Present Engineering, Beihang University
January 2017 -- Visiting Research Professor, Higher Education Research Institute, Present East China University of Science and Technology
September 2016 -- Adjunct Professor of Philosophy, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda
Present Educational and Research Institute
September 2016 – Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, New York Present University
September 1992 -- Industry Professor of Philosophy, Tandon School of September 2016 Engineering, New York University
September 2013 -- Affiliated Professor of Humanities, New York June 2015 University – Shanghai
September 2012 -- Affiliated Professor of Humanities, New York
June 2014 University – Abu Dhabi
September 2006 – Vice-Provost for International Education, Polytechnic
May 2009 Institute (now Tandon)
September 2000 - Department Head, Humanities and Social Sciences, Polytechnic
May, 2008 Institute (now Tandon)
September 1988 - Visiting Professor of Philosophy, Pace University 1992
September 1988 - Adjunct Professor, New School for Social Research
May 1992
September 1971 - Instructor, Assistant, Associate and Full Professor, Augustana May 1988 College (Rock Island, Il)
HONORS AND AWARDS
2018 Ing.Paed.IGIP
Awarded upon successful completion of training course.
2008 UICEE Platinum Medal
Awarded by the UNESCO International Center for Engineering Education. Citation reads: “UICEE Order for Excellence in Engineering Education”
1985 - 1986 Iowa House Fellowship
Awarded by the University of Iowa providing release from teaching duties and part time-residence and support for research at the University.
1984 - Faculty Affiliate
Nominated by Wing-tsit Chan and elected full time voting member of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo Confucian studies.
1983 -1984 Occasional Fellow
Awarded by University of Chicago to selected faculty at Associated Colleges of the Midwest member institutions, providing travel to and room and board at the University for research. I was affiliated under this program with the Department of Far Eastern Studies.
1982 Outstanding Research Award
Awarded by Augustana Research Foundation funding travel and participation in a summer (by invitation only) Chu Hsi studies program and international conference
at the East-West Center of the University of Hawaii.
1980 Visiting International Fellow
Awarded by the Pacific Cultural Foundation, funding research and language studies in Taiwan.
1969 - 1971 Charles Haight Fellow
Awarded by American Scandinavian Foundation, funding advanced studies in Denmark
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND SERVICES
Editorial Board Member, Global Journal of Engineering Education
Advisory Board Member, New York University – Abu Dhabi Grand Challenges Scholars Program
Board Member, Asia New Humanities Net (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Professional Organization Member
American Philosophical Association (APA)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Asia New Humanities Network (ANHN)
Association for Asian Studies (AAS)
Conseil International de la Philosophie et des Sciences Humaines (CIPSH)
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)
The International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES)
UNESCO International Center for Engineering Education (UICEE)
World Institute for Engineering and Technical Education (WIETE)
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES AND INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS
Sjursen: “Technological Ethics, Faith and Climate Control: The Misleading Rhetoric Surrounding the Paris Agreement,” London, The Implementation of the Paris Agreement on Climate Control, (chapter 9), edited by Vesselin Popovski, Routledge, 2018.
Cukierman, Sjursen, et al: “A Developmental Framework of Teaching Expertise for Engineering and Related Disciplines,” IEEE, 2018.
Li, Sjursen: “Characteristics of Produced Water During Coalbed Methane (CBM) Development and
its Feasibility as Irrigation Water in Jincheng, China,” Journal of Coal Science and Engineering, June, 2013).
Sjursen: “Total Engineering Education in the 21st Century: CDIO, TRIZ, Global Collaboration and Blue Ocean Strategies,” Shanghai, Total Engineering Education II, (chapter 2), edited by Shan-Dong Tu, ECUST Press, 2012.
Sjursen: “Back to the Future: Hans Jonas’ Critique of Technology and Neo-Confucian Thought in Yingyong Lunlixue de xin Shiye,” Beijing, People’s Press (Philosophy and Management of Science and Technology Series), 2009 (in Chinese).
Sjursen: “The Ethics of Biological Engineering,” Ethics in Biology, Engineering and Medicine: An International Journal, Begel House, 2008.
Sjursen: “The New Alliance between Engineering and Humanities Educators,” The Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 11. 2, 2007.)
Sjursen: “The Role of a Centre for Liberal Arts in Engineering Education: The Engineer of 2020,” The Global Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 11.1, 2006.)
Sjursen: “Algunos Aspectos de la Critica de Popper a la Filosofia Politica Platonica,” El Poder de Los Argumentos, Enrique Suarez-Iniguez, editor, Miguel Angel Porrua, Mexico City, 1997.
Sjursen: "Hans Jonas", (in Chinese) in the Encyclopedia of Social Science, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, 1993
Sjursen: "Excess of Sorrow Laughs", Masks of Comedy, Rock Island, 1980.
Sjursen: "The Comic Apprehension: Humor and Irony in Kierkegaard's Theory of Existence Spheres", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Vol. I, No. 1, 1976.
Sjursen: "Oieblikket-Augenblick", Semion Copenhagen, 1972.
Sjursen: "Method and Perspective When Reading Kierkegaard", Kierkegaardiana VII, Copenhagen, 1971.
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Sjursen, “The Ethical Responsibility of Engineers for Sustainable Development:
Review of an Interdisciplinary Course at Beihang University School of General Engineering,” BoAo Forum for Innovation in Higher Education, November 2019 [postponed].
Sjursen, “Augmented Reality, Re-Imagined Humanity: How Rational Can Technological Responsibility Be?” First Techno-Humanities International Conference, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, October 2019, Shanghai.
Sjursen: “AI and Long-Term Medical Caregiving,” Invited Lecture at National Taiwan University, School of Medicine, College of Public Health, June 2019, Taipei.
Sjursen: “East-West Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy or World Philosophy,” CASS International
Workshop on Comparative Philosophy, May 2019, Beijing.
Sjursen, “Why Technology Creates the Need for a New Ethical Theory,” 2019 Global Humanities Festival, April 2019, Xiamen.
Sjursen, “What Kind of Obligation Do We Have to Care for Children?” Poverty Relief in Children’s Education Conference, April 2019, Fuzhou.
Sjursen: “How the Discourse of the Humanities Fails to Address the Problems of Technology,” 4th Apheleia International Seminar, March 2019, Macau (Portugal).
Sjursen: “Technology, Ethics, Faith and Climate Control: The Humanities and the Current Discourse of Environmental Crisis,” CUHK Forum on Environmental Humanities, December 2018, Hong Kong.
Sjursen: “The Great Derangement or Can the Humanities Think About the Environment?” ANHN
Annual Meeting, November 2018, Kaohsiung.
Sjursen: “Is Contemporary Technology Altering the Way We Imagine What it Means to be
Human?” 5th World Humanities Forum, October 2018, Busan.
Sjursen: “The Self and Pure Practicality in Song Neo-Confucian Thought,” XXIV World Congress
of Philosophy, August 2018, Beijing.
Sjursen: “Global Sustainability: An Interdisciplinary Concept,” 11th International Conference on
Safety, Science and Technology, August 2018, Shanghai.
Sjursen: “Emerging Technology and Ethics – The Imperative of Responsibility: Technological
Ethics for the Future,” Global Humanities Festival, April 2018, Xiamen.
Sjursen: “The Place of the Western Classics in Global Humanities,” August, 2017, Confèrence mondiale des humanités, Liege.
Sjursen: “The Preservation of Traditional Practice as a Progressive Value,” July 2017, 6th International Forum on Marxist Aesthetics,” Cardiff.
Sjursen: “The Ethics of Alternative Modernities – The Conflict of Values in Mid 20th Century Shanghai,” May 2017, Shanghai Forum, Shanghai.
Sjursen: “Imaginary Shanghai – Utopia or Dystopia?” September 2016, 5th International Forum on Marxist Aesthetics, Hangzhou.
Sjursen: “Above the Sea - The Pearl of the Orient” and the “Paris of the East” A Philosophical Tale about the World’s Largest Port City,” April 2016, ANHN Conference, Macau.
Sjursen: “Lao-Zhuang, Heidegger and Technology,” presented to the faculty and fellows of the Center for the Study of Modern Daoism of the graduate school of East China University of Science and Technology, April 2016, Shanghai.
Sjursen: “Chinese and Indian Attitudes toward the Stewardship of Nature,” 8th ICEBE Conference, October 2015, Frederikstad; revised and expanded [version published in proceedings] February 2016, 9th ICEBE Conference, Ahmedebad.
Sjursen: “Why the Humanities need Engineering,” 3rd Total Engineering Education Conference (TEE 2015): April 2015, Shanghai.
Sjursen: “The Aims of Education – with apologies to A.N. Whitehead and C.P. Snow,” October 2014, ICEBE Conference, Shijiazhuang.
Sjursen: “Renewable Energy, Water Management and Urbanization,” December 2012, IREC, Tunis.
Sjursen: “The Integration of STEM Learning and the Humanities – CORE General Education in Chinese Universities,” November 2012, ANHN Conference, Tainan.
Sjursen: “The Integration of Engineering and Business Education in a Global-Network University,” October 2012, ICEBE Conference, Sibiu (in absentia).
Sjursen: “Engineering Education as a Means to Global Social Justice,” October 2012, WEEF Conference, Buenos Aires.
Sjursen: “The Ethics of Medical Risk Assessment when using advanced ‘High-Tech’ Diagnostics,” May 2012, Bio-Engineering World Conference 2012, Beijing.
Yang & Sjursen: “Water Management in Chinese Cities,” December 2011, IREC, Tunis
Sjursen: ” Engineering’s Responsibility for the Future of the Environment: Planning China’s Energy Future,” November 2011, ICEBE Conference, Capetown.
Sjursen:” The Internationalization of Engineering Education – Recent Trends,” November 2011, fPET Conference, Beijing.
Sjursen: “The Significance of Technology for Contemporary Humanities Education in the Global University of the 21st Century,” October 2011, Asia New Humanities Network Conference, Shanghai.
Sjursen: “What Philosophy Can Learn from Engineering - The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Social World,” September 2011, WIETE Conference, Ljubljana.
Sjursen: “Global, integrated engineering education: a curriculum for the 21st Century,” February 2010, World Institute of Engineering and Technology Education Annual Conference, Pattaya.
Sjursen: “Technology Clusters: China, India and the New World of Engineering Collaboration,” October 2009, ICEBE, Sibiu.
Sjursen: “Technology Collaboration - Legal and Ethical Issues in the New World of Engineering,” September 2009, IVR 24th World Congress – Global Harmony and the Rule of Law, Beijing.
Sjursen: “The Ethics of Biological Engineering,” April 2009, Fifth International Conference On Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering, Brooklyn.
Sjursen: “Total Engineering Education in the 21st Century: CDIO, TRIZ, Global Collaboration and Blue Ocean,” October 2009, 2nd International Symposium on Total Engineering Education (TEE 2007), Shanghai.
Sjursen: “Why Engineering Must Be Global,” February 2005, UICEE International Congress, Kingston.
Sjursen: “The Two Cultures Revisited: The Place of the Humanities within Technological Education,” July 2004, 2nd annual conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Prato.
Sjursen: “The Liberal Arts and Engineering Education,” February 2004. UICEE International Congress, Mumbai.
Sjursen: “Does Globalization call for a New Type of Ethical Theory?,” July 2003, 1st Annual Conference on New Directions in the Humanities, Rhodes.
Sjursen: “Are Global Free Markets Compatible with Popper’s Open Society?,” July 2002, Karl Popper Commemorative Congress, Vienna.
Sjursen: “Globalization and Ethical Choice,” July 2000, 2nd International Congress of the International Society for Business, Economics and Ethics, Sao Paulo.
Sjursen: “Hannah Arendt’s Reading of Kierkegaard,” April 1995, International Conference on Kierkegaard and the Polis, Lancaster.
Sjursen: “The Imperative of Responsibility: Ethics and the Law in a Pluralistic and Global Society,” June 1995, 17th IVR World Congress, Challenges to Law at the End of the 20th Century, Bologna.
Sjursen: "What the Late 20th Century West Can Learn from Neo-Confucian Political Philosophy," October 1994, New York division of the Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Syracuse.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION/SUBMITTED FOR REVIEW
Sjursen, "Chu Hsi's Notion of the Self: A Study of Neo-Confucian Interiority", Philosophy East and West.
A book of my collected essays with introduction and transitional commentary is in preparation for dual language publication by the East China University of Science and Technology Press. Working title: Engineering and Humanities: The Social Responsibility of an Engineer. (English version of manuscript provisionally accepted. After translation into Chinese is completed final approval for publication will be finalized.
My long in the birthing process book tentatively entitled, From Tradition to Technology: The Ontological Ethics of Hans Jonas is nearing conclusion. The full manuscript will finally be delivered to the University of Chicago Press (with which I have been under contract for some years).
Service and Administration at Polytechnic/Tandon
Member, Faculty Executive Committee (1993 – 1994, 2008 - 2011) Secretary of the Faculty (1993 - 1994)
Deputy Chair, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, (1995 – 1999) Director, Institute for Distance Learning (1996 - 1999)
Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum & Standards Committee (1999 - 2008)
Director, InGATE [Institute for Global Alliances in Technology Education], 2002 - 2005 Director of Liberal Studies (2002 – 2008)
Chair, Educational and Admissions Policies Committee (2008 - 2011) Member, Assessment Committee (2008 - 2011)
TCS Department Coordinator for Ethics courses (2008 -2011)
Member of NYU-Shanghai Curriculum Development Committee (in New York, 2011, 2022) prior to opening of campus in Shanghai)
Developed Engineering Ethics program for NYU AD (2013)
Numerous tasks related to the NYUAD ABET review, especially justifying the school’s approach to ethics and integration within the liberal arts curriculum (2014).
Faculty advisor for NYU-Shanghai Sila Connection projects. (2014)
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1992 - 2013 every semester and several summer terms in Brooklyn.
Regular courses taught more than once: Ancient Philosophy
Asian Philosophy
Business Ethics Comparative Religion Computer Ethics Ethics and Technology Ethical Theories
Law and Philosophy Modern Philosophy Phenomenon of Life Philosophy of Religion
Philosophy of Science and Society in China and India Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of Technology Critique of Heidegger Science and Society
Social and Political Philosophy Thinking about the Environment World Religions
Fall 2013 at NYUAD.
Courses taught:
Thinking about the Environment From Ancient Cosmology to Science Capstone Research and Design
Spring 2014 at NYUAD
Course taught:
Capstone Research and Design
Spring 2014 through Spring 2015 at NYU-Shanghai.
Courses taught:
From Ancient Cosmology to Science Growth of Science in the West
Science and Technology in Pre-Modern China 2015 – 2016 a/y in Brooklyn.
Courses taught:
Philosophy of Science and Society in China and India Philosophy of Technology
2007 to 2012 outside committee member for engineering education at Monash. I was the outside reader for 2 MS thesis papers and f4 PhD dissertations.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Organized and administered first online courses taught at Polytechnic. Conceived and founded Integrated Digital Media BS and MS programs.
Planned, organized and directed first Polytechnic study abroad semester.
As part of the Liberal Studies program I have created and organized a program of international travel for Polytechnic students. During the Fall 2002 semester a group of students and faculty will inaugurate this program with a 14 week study tour to China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand and the Philippines. traveling with them while visiting numerous cultural, historical, industrial sites and universities and government agencies.
Organized and directed UICEE conference on global engineering education held at Polytechnic in 2007.
Organized and directed international summit on the “Future of Engineering Education” at NYUAD in 2012.