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https://magazine.lafayette.edu/fall2016/wp-content/uploads/sites/21/2016/11/engineering-feature.jpg952536Stodgy? Academic? Numbers, lines, and angles? Tom Loughlin ’83 doesn’t see engineers as clipboard-toting white coats in laboratories. Instead, the executive director of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering believes engineers should be technological citizens focused on human needs. The big challenges of the next century—providing access to clean water, securing cyberspace, and finding clean, […]