We are writing to ask your help in building interdisciplinary engineering studies as an international field of scholarly research by joining the International Network for Engineering Studies (INES) and contributing manuscripts to its new journal Engineering Studies: Journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies.
INES was born in Paris, France in 2004. The founding co-coordinators are Maria Paula Diogo (History, U Lisbon, Portugal), Gary Downey (STS and Engineering Education, Virginia Tech) and Chyuan-Yuan Wu (Sociology and STS, National Tsing Hua U, Taiwan). INES supports workshops and the journal, as well as the sharing of bibliographies and syllabi (the latter beginning Fall 2009, see http://www.inesweb.org/ for details).
The publisher Routledge/Taylor & Francis offers INES members the amazingly low subscription rate of US $46, their cost. INES membership, including the subscription, is US $56. The extra US $10 is for bank and web costs, and to subsidize members who qualify for the discounted rate of US $46 (students, retired persons, residents of non-OECD countries). The standard individual rate is US $190 US / £ 98 / € 152.
Please go to the INES site now and join! (http://www.inesweb.org/join). [Note: if you are willing to sponsor a member for one year at the discounted rate or are in need of such sponsorship, contact Crystal Harrell at crcrigge@vt.edu. She is serving as matchmaker.]
Please also contact your library representative personally and ask him/her to purchase a library subscription. The rate is reasonable. A library recommendation form is available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/library.asp (We recommend a phone call given that libraries are currently making difficult choices.)
Finally, please consider submitting a manuscript. See below for aims and scope. For complete submission guidelines, see www.tandf.co.uk/journals/engineeringstudies.
The editors are Gary Downey (Virginia Tech) and Juan Lucena (Colorado School of Mines). They are supported by Jen Schneider (Colorado School of Mines) as Managing Editor, Brent Jesiek (Purdue) as Web Editor, and Kacey Beddoes (Virginia Tech) as Assistant Editor, as well as 12 Associate Editors and 30 Editorial Board members (see below for names and affiliations).
Best,
Gary Downey, Maria Paula Diogo, and Chyuan-Yuan Wu
INES Co-Organizers
Brent Jesiek
INES Web Editor
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Engineering Studies: Journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies
Aims and Scope
Engineering Studies is an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the scholarly study of engineers and engineering. Its mission is threefold: (1) to advance research in historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational studies of engineers and engineering; (2) to help build and serve diverse communities of researchers interested in engineering studies; and (3) to link scholarly work in engineering studies to broader discussions and debates about engineering education, research, practice, policy, and representation. Engineering Studies is published three times yearly by Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, beginning in 2009.
Vision Statement
The field of engineering studies is a diverse, interdisciplinary arena of scholarly research built around the question: What are the relationships among the technical and the nontechnical dimensions of engineering practices, and how do these relationships change over time and from place to place? Addressing and responding to this question can sometimes involve researchers as critical participants in the practices they study, including, for example, engineering formation, engineering work, engineering design, equality and diversity in engineering (gender, racial, ethnic, class, geopolitical), and engineering service to society.
Engineering Studies juxtaposes contributions from distinct disciplinary and analytical perspectives to encourage authors and readers to look beyond familiar theoretical, topical, temporal, and geographical boundaries for insight and guidance. The diversity in the editorial staff and board is designed to map the diversity in the field and support its persistence. While prospective authors are invited to reflect on and anticipate how their work might prove helpful to others elsewhere, both within the academy and beyond, they can also feel comfortable imagining familiar audiences and producing familiar modes of analysis and interpretation. The heterogeneity of perspectives in engineering studies is its lifeblood, and the goal is high quality scholarship in every case.
Volume 1, Issue 1, Spring 2009
"Doing Gender in Engineering Workplace Cultures: Part I - Observations From The Field"
Wendy Faulkner, University of Edinburgh
"The Engineer as Judge: Engineering Analysis and Political Economy in Eighteenth Century France"
Antoine Picon, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
"An Historico-Ethical Perspective on Engineering Education: From Use and Convenience to Policy Engagement"
Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines
"What is Engineering Studies For?: Dominant Practices and Scalable Scholarship"
Gary Lee Downey Virginia Tech
Associate Editors
Atsushi Akera, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Diane Bailey, Stanford University, USA
Konstantinos Chatzis, Université Paris-Est - LATTS (UMR CNRS), France
Maria Paula Diogo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Joseph Herkert, Arizona State University, USA
Ann Johnson, University of South Carolina, USA
Ulrik Jørgensen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
Scott Knowles, Drexel University, USA
Donna Riley, Smith College, USA
Julia Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA
Matthew Wisnioski, Virginia Tech, USA
Chyuan-Yuan Wu, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Editorial Advisory Board
Marcos Azevedo da Silveira, Pontificia Universidad Catolica- Rio, Brasil
Stephen R. Barley, Stanford University, USA
Sharon Beder, University of Wollongong, Australia
Bruno Belhoste, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
Li Bocong, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Taft Broome, Howard University, USA
Louis Bucciarelli, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Ivan da Costa Marques, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Michael Davis, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
Christelle Didier, Université Catholique de Lille, France
Wendy Faulkner, University of Edinburgh, UK
David E. Goldberg, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Irina Gouzevitch, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France
André Grelon, L'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
Jang Gyu Lee, Seoul National University, Korea
Deborah Johnson, University of Virginia, USA
Ronald Kline, Cornell University, USA
Eda Kranakis, University of Ottawa, Canada
Gideon Kunda, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Jack Lohmann, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Tony Marjoram, UNESCO, France
Peter Meiksins, Cleveland State University, USA
Carl Mitcham, Colorado School of Mines, USA
Antoine Picon, Harvard University, USA
Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University, USA
Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University, USA
Amy Slaton, Drexel University, USA
Knut H. Sørensen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Dominique Vinck, University of Grenoble, France
Rosalind Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA