In his speech, the Vice-President of CSA Zheng Bing mentioned that the establishment of PCIES of CSA marks the opening of a new research field and direction, which plays a positive role in promoting the exploration of new academic growth points and the development of sociological research.
The establishment of PCIES is also an important event in the field of the interdisciplinary engineering studies in China since the Professional Committee of Philosophy of Engineering of Chinese Society for Dialectics of Nature was founded in 2004 and the Society for Engineering History of Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology was set up in 2014. It is reported that Prof. Li Bocong is the major contributor to the interdisciplinary engineering studies , and his home university UCAS has been in a leading position in this field, which includes philosophy of engineering, engineering history, and sociology of engineering, etc, at home and abroad.
by Wang Nan
