Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering

A group is meeting today and tomorrow at MIT ESD to discuss the 2010 Workshop Philosophy and Engineering.   Chaired by Natasha McCarthy of the Royal Academy of Engineering and sponsored by Joel Moses at MIT, the group includes Taft Broome (Howard), Michael Davis (IIT), David E. Goldberg (Illinois), Billy Koen (Texas, retired), Peter Kroes (Delft), and Aarne Vesilind (Bucknell, retired).

The Volume 33 Issue 2 of the SPT newsletter is available for download from SPT’s website or from the direct link here. The new issue talks about SPT2009 and the invitations to host SPT2011, among other topics.

The call for papers for SPT 2009 has been extended until 31 January 2009.  See here.  Track 15 is especially designed for the kinds of papers that were submitted to the reflections track of the WPE workshops.

Track 15 chair, Darryl Farber, is still looking for a few willing reviewers for that track and he can be contacted by email here.

WPE is pleased to co-sponsor at special track (Track 15) at SPT2009 in Twente, July 8-10, 2009 (Wednesday-Friday) on Reflective Engineering.  Two-time WPE attendee, Darryl Farber is chairing Track 15, and more information is available on the SPT2009 site here or in the Track call for papers here.

The Royal Academy of Engineering has posted a news item about the 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering here.

WPE-2008 last week was a successful event with a full program of lively talks and tutorials.  To keep the momentum going, the Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering is pleased to announce its affiliation with a special track on Reflective Engineering at the Society for Philosophy & Technology meeting in Twente, 8-10 July 2009 (Wednesday-Friday).  WPE-2008 committee member, Darryl Farber, will chair the track and more information will be posted about the track on the WPE website here. 

The 2008 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering wishes to thank its generous sponsors: The Royal Academy of Engineering, the British Academy, and the Illinois Foundry for Innovation in Engineering Education.

Authors and speakers at the Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2008) who would like to post their presentation or paper files have two ways to share.  Send a copy of the ppt or pdf file you would like posted to Dave Goldberg (deg@illinois.edu) and it will be uploaded to the WPE SlideShare slidespace page (www.slideshare.net/wpe).  Alternatively, sign up for your own slideshare slidespace (www.slideshare.net) and upload the file to your own slidespace.  Then, share that presentation with the WPE slideshare group (www.slideshare.net/group/wpe).

The 2008 Workshop on Philosophy & Engineering is pleased to welcome speakers and participants to the Royal Academy of Engineering in London for the opening of the workshop Monday morning, 10 November 2008(schedule as pdf here).  A Google map locating the Royal Academy of Engineering is available here. Registration is scheduled from 9-9:30 am, and the workshop begins with welcoming and opening remarks at 9:30 am.

WPE-2008 to be held next week, 10-12 November 2008 (Monday-Wednesday) at the Royal Academy of Engineering, London, is pleased to post the extended abstracts for the papers to be given at the workshop (WPE-2008 Abstracts Book).

Register for the workshop here.