Attendees at the fPET2018 event at University of Maryland, College Park, June 1 2018
History of the fPET community
The Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET) is a biennial meeting for philosophers, engineers and other researchers and practitioners related to both fields. The mission of fPET is
to encourage reflection on engineering, engineers, and technology and
to build bridges between existing organizations of philosophers and of engineers.
fPET follows in the tradition of the 2007 Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering (WPE) at Technical University- Delft. There was second WPE meeting in 2008 at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Rebranding to the current fPET name, a 2010 meeting was held at the Colorado School of Mines, a 2012 meeting at the Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing , in 2014 at Virginia Tech, and in 2016 at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. fPET 2023 occurred at the Delft University of Technology. The 2024 fPET will be held September 17-19, 2024, at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany. Please go to their website here: https://www.fpet2024.org/
Past fPET research has been published through the Springer series on Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET).
For information on the early WPE meetings, see the 2007 and 2008 abstracts. For information on past fPET asbtracts, see 2010 here, 2016 here, 2018 here, and 2020 here.
fPET2024 will benefit from the broader fPET community, including the fPET steering committee. Their names are listed below
fPET steering committee (as of 2024)
Co-chair: David E. Goldberg (ThreeJoy Associates, Inc.)
Co-chair: Diane Michelfelder (Macalester College)
Richard Evans (Cornell University)
Carl Mitcham (Colorado School of Mines)
Byron Newberry (Baylor University)
Joe Pitt (Virginia Tech)
Ibo van de Poel (TU Delft)
Natasha McCarthy (Royal Society)
Viola Schiaffonati (Politecnico di Milano)
Neelke Doorn (TU Delft)
Zachary Pirtle