Dr. Satya Sundar Sethy is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, India. He has served at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) as Assistant Professor in the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE), New Delhi. He is the recipient of the prestigious Young Philosopher Award 2017, conferred by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Ministry of Education, Government of India. He has published several papers in prestigious journals and contributed chapters to the edited books. His publications include the books Introduction to Logic and Logical Discourse (2021), Higher Education and Professional Ethics: Roles and Responsibilities of Teachers (edited, 2018), Assessment of Learner Performance (With Mishra, S., 2018), Meaning and Language (2016), Contemporary Ethical Issues in Engineering (edited, 2015), and Indian Philosophy: Orthodox Systems (2010). His current research interests are consciousness studies; Aristotelian logic; analytic philosophy; Indian philosophy; professional ethics, especially academic ethics and engineering ethics; engineering education; and assessment and evaluation in higher education.
During his Fulbright grant, Dr. Sethy is engaged with teaching, research, and public lecture activities at the host institution and several universities in Utah, USA. He is involved in Philosophy course curriculum design and teaching a few courses to Humanities students. He is delivering guest lectures on ‘Engineering Ethics’ and ‘Engineering Education’ issues to engineering and science students, special lectures on ‘Academic Ethics’, and ‘Assessment and Evaluation Practices in Higher Education’ in the teacher training program, and a few public lectures on ‘Role and Responsibilities of Higher Education Teachers in Contemporary Times’, and ‘Oriental Philosophy and Engineering in India’.