Call for Manuscripts
“Engineering Communication”
Theme Issue of Engineering Studies:
Journal of the International Network for Engineering Studies
Editors: Gary Downey (Virginia Tech) and Juan Lucena (Colorado
School of Mines)
Theme Issue Guest Editor: Jon A. Leydens (Colorado School of
Mines)
What does the study of how engineers communicate reveal about engineers
and engineering? This themed issue of Engineering Studies invites
submissions from scholars across the disciplines who study engineering
communication. Broadly, engineering communication refers to communication
generated and/or interpreted within engineering contexts (academic,
industry, field, or elsewhere). Such communication may be written, oral,
verbal, electronic, nonverbal, or some combination of these modes.
Scholars who study how engineers communicate investigate a broad
range of topics. For instance, some envision the pedagogy of engineering
communication as a vehicle to more effective communication, critical
thinking, and/or disciplinary enculturation. Others investigate the
effects of engineering communication on people, networks of engineers
(and sometimes non-engineers), organizations, nations, or international
contexts. Some scholars focus on how engineering communication benefits
some and marginalizes other perspectives, how it reifies ideologies, or
how it maintains or destabilizes notions of expertise, identity, and
social status within engineering contexts.
- The goal of this themed
issue is to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines to
illustrate how examining engineering communication can advance
understanding of engineers and engineering. Possible submission topics
include, but are not limited to, questions such as:
- What do studies in engineering communication suggest about engineering
as an academic discipline, profession, or a general field of practice?
- What do studies in engineering communication imply for institutional,
personal, and/or programmatic identities?
- How do studies in engineering communication complicate binaries such as
content vs. form, theory vs. practice, persuading vs. informing,
rhetorical vs. non-rhetorical, and others?
- How can studies in engineering communication advance understanding of
engineering work, engineering design, equity in engineering (gender,
racial, ethnic, class, geopolitical), and/or engineering service to
society?
- What are the communication-related relationships among the technical
and nontechnical dimensions of engineering practices, and how do these
relationships change over time and/or from place to place?
- What are salient debates or disagreements among engineering
communication professionals? Between such professionals and communication
professionals in other fields? What are the implications of these debates
for engineers and engineering?
Scholars from all disciplines are invited to submit manuscripts.
Interested authors should submit titles and 350-word abstracts by
August 1, 2010 to the Guest Editor, Jon A. Leydens, Liberal Arts
and International Studies, Colorado School of Mines,
(jleydens /at/ mines.edu). On the abstract, please include contact
information and institutional affiliation. The Guest Editor will invite a
maximum of five manuscripts for full consideration. All submitted
manuscripts will be subject to the journal’s standard double-blind review
process.
Completed draft manuscripts will be due April 1, 2011. A limit of
9,500 words, including notes and references, will be strictly enforced.
Accepted final manuscripts will be published in the first issue of 2012.
Engineering Studies is published three times a year. Please visit
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/engineeringstudies for
detailed author guidelines.
