Open Engineering.mp4 (207.66 MB)
Open Engineering
A recorded talk on "Open Engineering" presented at the UC-Davis Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Seminar.
Time and Location
May 25, 2017
4:10 PM
Bainer Hall Room 1062
Speaker
Prof. Devin Berg
Associate Professor; Program Director, Mechanical Engineering; Editor, The Journal of Open Engineering; Director, engrXiv
Engineering and Technology Department, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Abstract
As engineering researchers and scholars, we hope to have an impact on the world through our work. Many of us went into this field in pursuit of the dream of using our skills and training to help improve the lives of others. Unfortunately, through the pressures of career advancement we find ourselves creating and publishing work that will be read by a handful (sometimes fewer) of others. While practicing open engineering won't guarantee that more people will read your work, it does remove many of the barriers to access that make it difficult for millions of people around the world to obtain and engage with the engineering knowledge that is so often locked away behind the paywalls employed by some of the biggest academic publishers. With the availability of modern tools, it is easier than ever to make available not only the final, polished product of the engineering research or design process, but also the data, code, solid models, or any other artifacts produced along the way. By making the full scope of our work available, we have the opportunity to see our work replicated, expanded upon, or even driven in new directions we hadn't conceived. Through these mechanisms, the impact of our work is magnified. To realize these benefits, it may be necessary to re-examine the reward structures which drive our career advancement and in some cases, restructure the role of the publicly funded research institution in society.
Bio
Dr. Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He is passionate about finding ways in which we can broaden the impact of engineering design and development and make the products of engineering scholarship as openly accessible as possible. In pursuit of these goals he founded The Journal of Open Engineering, an experiment in fully open engineering publishing, and engrXiv, an eprint server for the engineering field.
Time and Location
May 25, 2017
4:10 PM
Bainer Hall Room 1062
Speaker
Prof. Devin Berg
Associate Professor; Program Director, Mechanical Engineering; Editor, The Journal of Open Engineering; Director, engrXiv
Engineering and Technology Department, University of Wisconsin-Stout
Abstract
As engineering researchers and scholars, we hope to have an impact on the world through our work. Many of us went into this field in pursuit of the dream of using our skills and training to help improve the lives of others. Unfortunately, through the pressures of career advancement we find ourselves creating and publishing work that will be read by a handful (sometimes fewer) of others. While practicing open engineering won't guarantee that more people will read your work, it does remove many of the barriers to access that make it difficult for millions of people around the world to obtain and engage with the engineering knowledge that is so often locked away behind the paywalls employed by some of the biggest academic publishers. With the availability of modern tools, it is easier than ever to make available not only the final, polished product of the engineering research or design process, but also the data, code, solid models, or any other artifacts produced along the way. By making the full scope of our work available, we have the opportunity to see our work replicated, expanded upon, or even driven in new directions we hadn't conceived. Through these mechanisms, the impact of our work is magnified. To realize these benefits, it may be necessary to re-examine the reward structures which drive our career advancement and in some cases, restructure the role of the publicly funded research institution in society.
Bio
Dr. Berg is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Mechanical Engineering program at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. He is passionate about finding ways in which we can broaden the impact of engineering design and development and make the products of engineering scholarship as openly accessible as possible. In pursuit of these goals he founded The Journal of Open Engineering, an experiment in fully open engineering publishing, and engrXiv, an eprint server for the engineering field.
