About fPET
The Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET) is an outgrowth of the Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE-2007 in Delft and WPE-2008 in London). The mission of fPET is (1) to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology by philosophers and engineers alike and (2) to build bridges between existing organizations of philosophers and of engineers. fPET-2010 held an intensive day and a half meeting in May 2010 at Colorado School of Mines. fPET-2012 will be held on 2-4 November 2012 by Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (GUCAS) in Beijing, China.
fPET-2012 welcomes contributions on one of four tracks:
Track One: Philosophy of engineering and technology;
Track Two: Engineering ethics;
Track Three: Reflections of practitioners;
Track Four: Other interdisciplinary topics.
Forum Co-Chairs:
Bocong Li (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Byron Newberry (Baylor University)
Executive Committee:
Diane Michelfelder (Macalester College)
Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)
Mike Murphy (Dublin Institute of Technology)
Nan Wang (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Steering Committee:
Richard Evans (Cornell)
Josephy Pitt (Virginia Tech)
Kenneth R. Foster (University of Pennsylvania)
Ibo van de Poel (Delft University of Technology)
David E. Goldberg (ThreeJoy Associates, Inc.)
Jon A. Schmidt (Burns & McDonnell)
Domenico Grasso (University of Vermont)
Cherrice Traver (Union College)
Rachelle Hollander (U.S. National Academy of Engineering)
Ruiyu Yin (Central Iron & Steel Research Institute)
Program Committee:
Brock Barry (The United States Military Academy at West Point) Russell Korte (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Sarah Bell (University College London) Peter Kroes (TU Delft)
Larry Bucciarelli (MIT) Bill Lawson (Texas Tech University)
Fan Chen (Northeastern University, China) Michael Loui (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Philip Chmielewski (Loyola Marymount University) Hans Poser (TU Berlin)
Steen Hyldgaard Christensen (Aarhus University) Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano)
Michael Davis (Illinois Institute of Technology) Jon Schmidt (Burns & McDonnell)
Gary Downey (Virginia Tech) John Sullins (Sonoma State University)
Dennis Gedge (Consulting Engineer) Herman Tavani (Rivier College)
Steve Goldman (Lehigh University) Pieter Vermass (TU Delft)
Joe Herkert (Arizona State University) Qian Wang (Dalian University of Technology)
Deborah Johnson (University of Virginia) Jianjun Zhao (Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C)
Local Arrangement:
Xinhe Hu (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Dazhou Wang (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Web&Technology:
Zhang Tao (Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)