How do engineers define, study, and respond to existential threats? And what should engineering studies contribute to that work?  

The International Network for Engineering Studies invites scholars, engineers, educators, graduate students, and anyone else who thinks seriously about engineering practice to join us online on Thursday and Friday, Jan. 14-15, 2027, from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm US Eastern both days.

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About the workshop

The International Network for Engineering Studies brings together scholars who study engineers and engineering — historians, sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, engineering educators, and engineers themselves. This workshop is our annual gathering, held online so that members on several continents can take part.

Please congratulate Kristin Bartlett for winning the 2026 INES Best Paper Award! The award committee also commends Antoine Bouzin and Marwa Koheji for their excellent papers. To select this year’s winners, the committee judged all the papers published in INES’ journal, Engineering Studies, from 2023-2025.  

Here are the committee’s comments about the winning papers: 

Our international and interdisciplinary prize committee selected the article "Technological Origins of Korean Semiconductor Industry,” written by Sangwoon Yoo and published in the Korean Journal for the History of Science, for this year's INES Best Paper Award. The candidate pool for this year’s prize comprised all papers published outside the Engineering Studies journal during 2024 and 2025.

You're invited to our next workshop, hosted by our International Network for Engineering Studies (INES), from 10am to 1pm Eastern Time (US) on Friday, 23 January 2026.

Please register for the event here.

The workshop has three events, each lasting one hour for a total of three hours: 

Our international and interdisciplinary prize committee selected the article “Framing Intelligent Transport Systems in the Arctic: Reindeer, Fish and the Engineered Road” by Bård Torvetjønn Haugland, Marianne Ryghaug & Roger Andre Søraa for this year's INES Best Paper Award. The candidate pool of articles for this year's prize were all papers published in Engineering Studies during 2022 and 2023.

The International Network for Engineering Studies (INES) represents the interdisciplinary field of scholars who study engineers and engineering from a variety of social, political, and historical perspectives. Engineering studies aims to promote knowledge about engineering as a social and cultural activity by bringing together this important research and connecting researchers with similar interests around the world.

We are pleased to invite your participation in INES Intersections: Connecting International Engineering Studies Scholars, a workshop scheduled for Saturday, May 20, 1:15-4:30 PM EDT.

This event is organized in conjunction with the IEEE ETHICS-2023 conference at Purdue, and will be run as a hybrid event with both face-to-face and online participation (via Zoom). Conference registration is NOT required to attend in either mode - we only ask that participants have an active INES membership/subscription for 2023.

One of the main goals for the workshop is to help those of us in the engineering studies community revitalize our connections with one another and explore avenues for future research. The event itself will be organized around three main themes or foci: Publishing, Networking, and Funding Opportunities.

It’s been an honor to serve as your INES chair for the past year and as Vice Chair working with Astushi Akera for the previous two. I’ll be stepping down at the end of December 2022 in order to step into the Editor-in-Chief role of our journal Engineering Studies. I adore scholarly publishing and am thrilled for the opportunity to build on what Gary Downey and Cyrus Mody have built for our intellectual community. Please look for upcoming announcements and opportunities to plan for the journal’s next stages.

I’m thrilled to announce that Brent Jesiek (Purdue) will be stepping in as chair. If you know our network, you know that Brent has been a key figure in its development. He’s been serving as our webmaster for as long as I’ve been familiar with the network and does a lot of work behind the scenes to keep the membership enrollments and listservs going.