Colleagues interested in scholarly studies of engineers and engineering, 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<http://seewww.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 *-- * *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