Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace

The ESJP network invites university/college academics, engineering professionals, activists, educators, representatives from civil society, and members of the public to the 2010 ESJP Conference. The full programme of the conference has been posted. The conference includes a wide variety of workshops and panel discussions that deal with the intersection of engineering, social justice, and peace.

Spaces are limited so be sure to register soon! Registration for the conference will be open until the end of May.

Register here.
More details about the conference here.

The programme for the 2010 conference is up! Looking forward to all the workshops and panels.

Usman Mushtaq (MSc 2010, Civil Engineering), presents his graduate research, which looks critically at the profession of engineering and our technology. Using his life story, Usman connects the values of technology and how a technology is designed with the oppression of people. This is followed by a discussion with Dr. Jonathan VanderSteen (University of Guelph), Syed Imran Ali (PhD Candidate, University of Guelph), and Amy Buitenhuis (Queen’s University) on how non-oppressive technology may be designed in an inclusive manner, so that it is socially just.

The documentary can be listened here:
http://www.mediacoop.ca/audio/2219

Registration for the 2010 conference is now open. You can register for the conference here.

Waste for Life Trailer from Waste for Life on Vimeo.

The latest additions “Engineering and Society: Working Towards Social Justice, Part 1-3″ to our book series “Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology and Society” edited by Caroline Baillie is now available from Morgan & Claypool Publishers.

A new issue of our zine, Reconstruct, has been released. It can be found under Zine in the main menu.