Engineering and Technology Studies at Illinois

Billy Koen’s delightful ETC series lecture, An Engineer’s Quest for Universal Method, is now available on video here. You can watch the lecture with synched powerpoint slides (IE req’d: here) or on video only (here). The powerpoint slides are available in pdf format here.

The next ETC series speaker is engineering anthropologist, Gary Downey from Virginia Tech.  He will speak on the topic Are Globalization, Diversity, and Leadership Variations of the Same Problem? Moving Problem Definition to the Core (see here).  Downey is author of The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Engineers and Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthopological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technology.  Join us for what promises to be an important presentation.

Just a reminder that Billy Koen will be giving the inaugural lecture of the ETC series (here).  Join us at noon in the CSL auditorium (B02 in basement), today, Wednesday, January 24, 2007.  Billy is an engaging lecturer and his message is thought provoking.

Kavita Philip, faculty member at UC irvine and author of Civilizing Natures:  Race, Resources, and Modernity in Colonial South India (Rutgers 2004) will give a talk, “Producing Technoscientific Knowledge and Gendered Subjects:  Notes on Studying South Indian Regional Modernities.”  The talk will be held Monday, January 29, 2007 at 3:00pm in 106 Lincoln Hall with a reception thereafter at the Gender and Women’s Studies Building, 911 S. Sixth St. (via Sharra Vostral)

Billy Koen, University of Texas at Austin mechanical engineering professor, will kick off the Engineering, Technology & Culture Lecture Series (see here) from 12 noon-1 pm in B02 Coordinated Science Lab (CSL), giving a talk from his work in the philosophy of engineering. Professor Koen is author of Discussion of the Method: Conducting the Engineer’s Approach to Problem Solving (Oxford, 2003), and the lecture defines engineering method and generalizes it to universal method. Mark your calendars for the kickoff of the ETC lecture series today. A pdf file announcement of the lecture is available here.

ETSI is pleased to announce the Spring 07, Engineering, Technology, and Culture lecture series.  See the array of topics, disciplines, and lecturers here and mark your calendar for the ETC series today.