ETHW:Welcome

Welcome to the new Engineering and Technology History Wiki!

Funded by a grant from the United Engineering Foundation, the IEEE History Center has partnered with six other engineering societies – the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Institute of Mining Engineers, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers to expand the IEEE Global History Network by launching the Engineering and Technology History Wiki (ETHW).

The GHN’s scope was limited in a sense that its focus was the history of electrical engineering and fields related to IEEE’s interests. The ETHW however, aims to capture the history of all disciplines of engineering and related fields of interest beyond IEEE. Expanding the scope of the site allows the History Center to better serve its mission of reaching the public, reaching a much wider body of potentially interested readers.

All of the content on the GHN has been migrated to the ETHW. This includes several thousand encyclopedic articles, more than 600 oral histories, approximately 200 first hand histories, as well as thousands of scanned archival documents, including hundreds of hours of audiovisual material. In addition to the content migrated over from the GHN, IEEE’s partner societies have begun posting their own content.

The ETHW’s user database has also been preserved from the GHN. If you had previously registered an account on the GHN, the login and password credentials will still be active. Both the GHN and the ETHW are running on MediaWiki, so users familiar with the editing interface of the GHN will feel right at home on the ETHW.

The IEEE Milestones proposal process has been moved off the ETHW and is now residing on its own site at http://ieeemilestones.ethw.org. Users interested in the IEEE Milestones program or submitting an IEEE Milestone can view relevant information here.

If you have any questions on the transition, please email site administrator Nathan Brewer at n.w.brewer@ieee.org