Bruce Seely, Michigan Technological University
Chemical Heritage Foundation, Brown Bag Lecture
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Place: 6th Floor Conference Room, Chemical Heritage Foundation
Information: 215-873-8289 or bbl@chemheritage.org
Technology transfer has attracted the attention of scholars in many academic fields, including historians of science and technology. This talk will explore some of the patterns in that scholarship, highlighting the deeply multidisciplinary nature of that scholarship and the range of academic fields that explore the diffusion of knowledge and technology. The paper will draw from the author’s experiences as editor of an interdisciplinary academic journal in this area.
Bruce Seely is a historian of technology who has written about the history of engineering education and American transportation history and policy. He has coedited the journal Comparative Technology Transfer and Society since its inception in 2003. He is currently dean of the College of Sciences and Arts at Michigan Technological University.