[Athena] Appel à communication - Histoire des sociétés techniques

["Auger, Jean Francois" <J.F.Auger AT tudelft.nl>]

Title: Appel à communication - Histoire des sociétés techniques

CALL FOR PAPERS

THE 2009 IEEE CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORY OF TECHNICAL SOCIETIES

5 - 7 August 2009, Philadelphia, USA

In 2009 the IEEE History Committee and the IEEE History Center will

hold the eighth in a series of historical conferences.  The 2009 IEEE

Conference on the History of Technical Societies will take place in

Philadelphia from Wednesday 5 August through Friday 7 August 2009.

The theme of the conference will be the history of professional

technical associations, a theme chosen because 2009 is the 125th

anniversary of the IEEE.  The location is appropriate because the

IEEE, then the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE), held

its first technical meeting in Philadelphia in October 1884.

We will invite papers on the history of the engineering profession,

particularly on the role of professional societies in engineering, and

emphasis will be on the technical fields served by the IEEE.  The

historical papers will be presented in focused sessions over the

two-and-a-half days in two tracks, though there would be one or more

plenary sessions.  The papers written for the conference will be a

valuable contribution to researching the history of engineering

organizations, a topic that deserves more attention than it has

received. Presented papers will be eligible for inclusion in a

conference proceedings volume to be published by IEEE.  In connection

with the conference there will be an IEEE anniversary celebration on

Thursday 6 August from 6:00 pm until 11:00 pm, at the Franklin

Institute, home to the first AIEE technical meeting.

We expect that at this conference, as at our earlier conferences, we

will have a congenial group of engineers, historians, museum curators,

and others, dozens of fascinating papers, plenty of time for informal

discussion, and some interesting exhibits and excursions.  We also

hope to keep local costs low to encourage participation by a wide

range of individuals.

Technical co-sponsors for the conference include the Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering of Drexel University, the

Department of the History and Sociology of Science of the University

of Pennsylvania, and the IEEE Philadelphia Section.

Please submit abstract and 1-page C.V., either electronically or in

paper form, to Frederik Nebeker, IEEE History Center, Rutgers

University, 39 Union Street, New Brunswick NJ 08901, USA;

f.nebeker AT ieee.org.  The deadline for paper proposals is 13 March

2009.  Additional information will be posted on the conference website

(www.ieee.org/go/historyconference) as it becomes available.  It is

anticipated that registration material will be available 15 March

2009.

Sheldon Hochheiser, Ph.D.

Archivist and Institutional Historian

IEEE History Center, Rutgers University

39 Union Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

s.hochheiser AT ieee.org

+1 732 932 1066

http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/history_center)