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By deg, September 22, 2009 10:34 am

From the cartoon Non Sequitur:

Why philosophy and engineering aren’t always a good mix

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By deg, September 14, 2009 5:07 pm

fPET-2010 has just learned that the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology (www.ieeessit.org), the Liberal Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (here), and the International Network for Engineering Studies (www.inesweb.org) have all agreed to cooperate with the Forum for 2010 Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) to be held 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday evening-Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO USA.  Members of these organizations will receive notices of the Forum from their respective organizations and they will be eligible for discounted registration.

The call for papers may be viewed here or downloaded here.

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By deg, September 4, 2009 9:24 pm

The 2010 Forum for Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) to be held 9-10 May 2010 (Sunday Evening-Monday) at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO USA has issued its first call for papers.

Abstracts (500-750 words) are due by 28 December 2009 (Monday) using the fPET-2010 submissions page on the the webpage www.philengtech.org/submission.  The call for papers may be viewed online here or downloaded as a PDF file here.

For more information about the forum contact Diane Michelfelder (michelfelder@macalester.edu) or Dave Goldberg (deg@illinois.edu).

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By deg, September 4, 2009 9:23 pm

fPET-2010 is pleased to announce that Cherrice Traver of Union College has joined the steering committee:

Cherrice Traver is the Dean of Engineering and David Falk and Elynor Rudnick-Falk Professor of Computer Engineering at Union College. She received her BS in Physics (summa cum laude) from the State University of New York at Albany in 1982 and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia in 1988. She has been a faculty member at Union College in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department since 1986, and directed the Computer Engineering program from 1997 to 2005.

Recently Dr. Traver has been involved in initiatives at the interface of engineering and the liberal arts. She has led two national symposia on Engineering and Liberal Education at Union College and she was General Chair for the 2008 Frontiers in Education conference.

Courses that she has taught include Electric Circuits, Digital Design, Embedded Systems, Comparative Computer Architecture, and VLSI. She has co-taught international project courses in Turkey and in Spain. Her research has been focused on timing issues in digital systems.  She has directed local and national outreach programs, including Robot Camp and the P. O. Pistilli Scholarship. She serves on the MOSIS Educational Advisory Committee and the Dudley Observatory Board of Trustees and is a member of Sigma Xi, ACM, and a senior member of the IEEE.

More information is available here.

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By deg, September 2, 2009 5:16 pm

The 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) just received word from Philip A.E. Brey (U. Twente), President of the Society for Philosophy & Technology (www.spt.org), that SPT has agreed to sponsor fPET-2010.  Similar cooperative arrangements were in place with SPT for the WPE events, but as part of this new arrangement, SPT will name a member of the fPET steering committee and a number of members to the fPET program committee.

fPET already has many SPT members among the  ranks of its organizers.  This past summer, SPT held a special reflective engineers track that attracted a number of provocative submissions and excellent attendance, and this new agreement between fPET and SPT continues the building cooperation between philosophers and engineers begun with WPE-2007.

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By deg, September 1, 2009 6:58 pm

Two WPE attendees made posts about their work that came to fPET attention through routine blog search:

Ron Chrisley posts about his WPE-2008 talk Engineering For Conceptual Change: The Enactive Torch here.

Maarten Ottens posts about his WPE-2007 talk Limits to Systems Engineering here.

This site will follow WPE and fPET related news and blog stories.

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By deg, September 1, 2009 10:19 am

The following members of the 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology (fPET-2010, 9-10 May 2010, Sunday Evening-Monday) program committee have been confirmed as of 1 September 2009:

Stephen C. Armstrong, AMGI-Bywater
Caroline Baillie, University of Western Australia
Sarah Bell, University College London
Louis Bucciarelli, MIT
Philip Chmielewski, Loyola Marymount University
Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Aarhus University
Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology
Darryl Farber, Pennsylvania State University
Jun Fudano, Kanazawa Institute of Technology
Dennis Gedge, Consulting Engineer
Alastair Gunn, University of Waikato
Billy V. Koen, The University of Texas at Austin
Russell Korte, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Peter Kroes, TUDelft
Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Byron Newberry, Baylor University
Steven P. Nichols, The University of Texas at Austin
Ibo van de Poel, TUDelft
Hans Poser, TUBerlin
Donna M. Rizzo, University of Vermont
Jon A. Schmidt, Burns & McDonnell
Karl A. Smith, University of Minnesota & Purdue University
Peter Simons, Trinity College Dublin
Herman T. Tavani, Rivier College
Pieter Vermaas, TUDelft

The committee represents a balanced mix of noted philosophers, engineers, and interdisciplinary thinkers.  For more information about the fPET-2010 program committee or the forum itself contact co-chairs Diane Michelfeleder (michelfelder@macalester.edu) or David E. Goldberg (deg@illinois.edu).