General Studies Lectures: Engineering Towards Development and Change

What can engineers learn from philosophers? How does identity affect industrialization? What happens when geographers, sociologists and urban & regional planners work together?

On Monday, January 15th at 6pm the first of 13 General Studies lectures will

be held. The lectures, will take place at the Faculty of Technology/Addis Ababa University library auditorium, Northern Campus, are entitled Engineering Towards Development and change, and will bring together engineering studies, as taught at the Faculty, with different studies in order to create a more full picture of Ethiopia’s future path to industrialization.

The lectures will be held twice per month until July 9^th.

Internationally recognized experts will attend the lectures to give their perspectives on Ethiopian development. The first lecture will discuss the Philosophy of Technology Studies. Prof. Dr. Bernhard Irrgang, professor for Technology Philosophy at the Institute for Philosophy, Dresden, Germany, will talk about Technological Progress and Development in Developing Countries. Dr. Workineh, Head of Philosophy Department/AAU, will moderate the lecture and lead a question and answers discussion afterwards.

 
Future topics are:

 15.01.2007        Technological Progress in Developing Countries

Dr. phil. habil. Dr. theol. Bernhard Irrgang, Professor for Technology Philosophy

29.01.2007      Emerging & Professional Development of Engineering Professions

Prof. Dr. phil. habil. Helmuth Albrecht, Chair for History of Technology & Industrial Archaeology

12.02.2007            Challenges for Sustainable Rural Development in Ethiopia

Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Hans Hurni, Director of NCCR North-South, Director of CDE

 26.02.2007      Industrialization in the Urban Age

Prof. Dr. Dieter Läpple, Head of Institute, Urban & Regional Economics & Sociology

 12.03.2007      Artificial Design Intelligence & Computer-based Communication

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt, Vice President of ETH Zurich, Chair of Information Architecture

 26.03.2007            Network City

Prof. em. Franz Oswald, Architect BSA/SIA, Professor ETH Zurich

 16.04.2007      Cultural Philosophy and History of Productive Life

Dr. Nicole Karafyllis, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Institut für Polytechnik/Arbeitslehre und politische Bildung

 30.04.2007            The importance of formal and informal learning

Prof. Dr. Phil. Overwien, Technical University of Berlin

14.05.2007            Vernacular architecture

Dr. Paul Oliver, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development, Oxford Brookes University

 28.0.2007            Heterogeneous Processes in Practice

Prof. Dr. Marc M. Angélil, Chair for Architecture & Design

 11.06.2007            Appropriate Technology

Dr. Rober Wimmer, Gruppe Angepasste Technologie, Technische Universität Wien>

 25.06.2007            Open Source / Open Community

Dr. Anton Mangstl, Director Library & Documentation, FOA, Rome

 09.07.2007            Humanities in the Technological Culture

Dr. Nils Gottschalk-Mazouz , Institute of Philosophy, University Stuttgart