Singapore 2000: Promoting the History of EE
An Overview
Logistics:
- 24-26 January 2000 (Monday-Wednesday)
- 3-day meeting, organized by IEEE History Center, as a follow-up to Maui meeting, organized by IEEJ History Committee, held in December 1995
- Held in conjunction with PES Winter Power Meeting, Singapore, 23-27 January 2000
Attendance:
- Engineers and historians from Japan, Canada, United Kingdom, United States, New Zealand, Korea and Singapore.
- Engineers also invited from Indonesia, Australia, China, South Africa and the Philippines.
- Select members of the IEEE History Committee and Staff from the IEEE History Center.
- Anticipated attendance of ~20 individuals at the Workshop.
Day 1: Monday, 24 January
- Singapore 2000 Workshop (conference style) 8:00am – 4:00pm
- Topics: archives, oral history, Milestones, museums, biographies, other historical activities
- Speakers from IEEE, IEEJ and other organizations
Day 2: Tuesday, 25 January
- Commemorative Session for the Winter Power Meeting, 9:00-11:00
- Theme: The International Legacy of the Electrical Engineer
- Open to all attendees of PES meeting
- Singapore 2000 Workshop 8:00-8:45 (lunch), resume 11:10 - 4:00
Day 3: Wednesday, 26 January
- Historical Session as part of PES Meeting 9:00-12:00
- Afternoon outing 1:30pm-4:30pm (Singapore Discovery Centre)
Attendees
Arakawa, Fumio, Senior Engineer, PS Electric Power Development Company [email protected]
Arrillaga, Jos, Professor University of Canterbury [email protected]
Chew, Yong Tian, Professor Graduate Studies Office, Faculty of Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore [email protected]
Finn, Bernard (Barney), Curator National Museum of American History Smithsonian Institution [email protected]
Geselowitz, Michael N., Staff Director IEEE History Center, Rutgers University [email protected]
Hohki, Keiichi, General Manager, Tokyo Electric Power Company [email protected]
Liu, Chen-Ching, Professor University of Washington [email protected]
Nagata, Takayuki, Engineering Planning and Coordination Division, NEC Corporation [email protected]
Nam, Moon-Hyan (Monroe), Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, Konkuk University Seoul, Korea [email protected]
Nebeker, Frederik (Rik), Senior Research Historian IEEE History Center [email protected]
Okita, Yuji, General Manager Kyushu System Center Fukuoka City, Japan [email protected]
Pugh, Emerson, President, IEEE Foundation [email protected]
Read, Wallace, Past President IEEE [email protected]
Sloan, Martha, ECE Department Michigan Technological University [email protected]
Suematsu, Yasuharu, President and Professor Kochi University of Technology [email protected]
Suzuki, Hiroshi, General Manager Power System & Transmission Engineering Center Mitsubishi Electric Corp. [email protected]
Symons, Lenore, Curator Institution of Electrical Engineers [email protected]
Takahashi, Yuzo, Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology [email protected]
Tanaka, Kuniaki, Professor of Electronics & Mechanical Engineering Department, Chiba University Chiba, Japan [email protected]
Invited Papers
Commemorative Session
Secondary Session
Introduction of Technology Transfer Session, Nebeker
Historical Study of Technology Transfer, Arakawa
History of Technology and the Changing Era, Okita
The Immigrant "Engineer" as a Means of Technology Transfer, Geselowitz
Technology Transfer-History of Electrical Engineering in Korea, Nam
Technology Transfer: The IBM System/360 Case, Pugh
Workshop (Papers and Presentations)
Biographical Sources of Engineers in Japan, Takahaski
Early History of Electrical Engineering in Korea, Nam
First Electric Power Historical Museum Project in Japan, Hohki
Historical Activities of the IEEE, Geselowitz
History Center Web Activities, Geselowitz
IEE Archives, Electronic Database, Symons
IEE Archives, Manuscripts, and Rare Book Collection, Symons
IEE Historical Activities, Symons
IEEE Power Engineering Society History Committee Activities, Liu
Status Report from IEEJ - Activities after Maui-I -, Suzuki
A Survey Of Museums With Historical Electrical Collections, Geselowitz
