Engineers and the Two Taiwans

Kuo-Hui Chang is a policy researcher focusing on power relations between science, technology, and the state. His PhD in science and technology studies at Virginia Tech followed a master's degree in public policy at National Taipei University. From 2021 to 2022, he served as editor-in-chief of the Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine (STM). His works appear in Engineering Studies, the Korea Journal for History of Science and a number of Chinese journals in Taiwan.

Gary Downey is an ethnographic listener committed to engineering studies, STS making & doing, and understanding connections between knowledge and personhood. Trained as a mechanical engineer (B.S. Lehigh) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D. Chicago), he is Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and Society and affiliated faculty member emeritus in Women's and Gender Studies and Engineering Education. Hisbooks include Making & Doing: Activating STS through Knowledge Expression and Travel (MIT Press, 2021, co-edited with Teun Zuiderent-Jerak); Engineers for Korea (Morgan & Claypool, 2014, with Kyonghee Han); What is Global Engineering Education (Morgan & Claypool, 2011, co-edited with Kacey Beddoes); The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers (Routledge, 1998); and Cyborgs and Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies (SAR Press, 1998; co-edited with Joseph Dumit).

Bono Po-jen Shih is an interdisciplinary scholar working in the intersection of philosophy, history, and sociology of engineering with an eye on contemporary engagement with engineering education and practice. He currently holds a postdoc appointment with two institutions at Penn State University and earlier was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Science History Institute. Shih earned his PhD and MS in science and technology studies (STS), as well as a graduate certificate in engineering education, from Virginia Tech. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University.

Abnormal Engineers for an Abnormal Land.- Freelancing around Japanese Infrastructures.- Climbing Mainland Infrastructures.- Animating Two Taiwans.- Two Taiwans in the United States.- The Separation Crosses the Strait.