The Engineering and Technology History Wiki is a MediaWiki-based website dedicated to the history of technology. It consists of articles, first-hand accounts, oral histories, landmarks and milestones and started operating in 2015. it included thousands of wiki entries, and recorded over 800 oral histories. A partnership between the United Engineering Foundation and its member engineering organizationsASCE, AIME, AIChE, ASME, IEEE as well as the Society of Woman Engineers is developing the ETHW as a central historical repository for the documentation, analysis and explanation of the history of technology. For this purpose, UEF has made a grant to develop such an engineering intersociety web platform. This work is mainly done at the IEEE History Center, annexed to the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. Today, the ETHW is a successor to the former IEEE Global History Network, which operated from 2008 to 2014. Therefore, most content is related to electrical, electronics and computer engineering so far. As the fields of civil engineering, mining, metallurgical and petroleum engineering, chemical engineering and mechanical engineering will be covered by members of the respective organizations in the future, ETHW is intended to be a global record for preserving knowledge of the history of technological innovation in a broad sense. It differs from other online sources, as personal accounts of technical innovators as primary sources are made available to the public. After its start as a common platform for several engineering societies in 2015, the Society of Woman Engineers and the Society of Petroleum Engineers have already contributed new content during the first two months of 2015.
Sectors
Encyclopedia
This sector includes articles about significant technological achievement, topic articles as an introduction to important technologies and their evolution, biographies and accounts of the history of engineering societies.
Oral histories
Interviews were conducted with important personalities in the fields of interest. Over 500 transcripts of such interviews, dating back as far as the 1960s, are accessible.
First-hand histories
ETHW offers engineers, scientists and inventors the unique opportunity to publish their own professional experiences as first-hand accounts on this website. First-hand histories of teams working together in the same field are also welcomed. A wide range of First-hand histories, already written before ETHW was started, are now incorporated in this sector of the ETHW and can be accessed.
Landmarks and milestones
The American Society of Civil Engineers has established a "List of Landmarks" including outstanding monuments and buildings. Later, the IEEE has started to select "IEEE Milestones" to honor exceptional achievements in the fields of electrical, electronic and computer engineering. Information on how to submit an additional IEEE Milestones can be found on a special website. There is also a collection of "Landmarks" chosen by ASME as mechanical engineering highlights.
Archives
This archive includes publications, audio and video records as well as document collections bequeathed to this organization.
Education
To help pre-university teachers plan social studies courses in Science, Technology and Society as defined by a Standards Task Force of the NCSS, ETHW provides lesson plans for a series of suitable topics.
