Maintenance and repair on functioning wind turbines blades. Perspective: should be no fear patching a hole in a plaster wall at home 😂😂 #windturbines #maintenance #repair Lee Vinsel Andrew L. Russell linkedin.com/posts/managing…

Grants for #Repair in Education! Spring 2024 cycle opens Jan 15 Grants to develop programs and teaching materials for K - 12 ed settings (regrettably, must be a US project) Check out the newsletter for details and more! cultureofrepair.org/newsletters-an… #MakerEd #Environment #STEM

US suburbs are a one life-cycle product that depend on new residents to cover their unsustainable maintenance costs. After decades of kicking the can down the road, the early inner-ring suburbs are beginning to unravel.

📢📗𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓! 📘📢 After nearly 7 years in creation, my new book 𝐖𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐁𝐋𝐄𝐌𝐒: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝 will be out on March 26! W. W. Norton & Company

MiA is finding out if it really does maintain & fix something everyday of the year on Insta at #fixitis We were inspired by Farnham Repair Café & Matt Marchant to explore further, our hunch that we probably do. From Jan 1, so far so fixed Lee Vinsel Andrew L. Russell The Maintainers

Thank you Science Magazine for a generous review by Donna Riley of WICKED PROBLEMS: “Guru Madhavan offers a primer on…problem framing that are intended to empower both engineers and non-engineers as engaged civic actors.” science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

it is timely to incorporate #maintenance into #engineering #education and into our broader understanding of #technology in society.” cc: Lee Vinsel The Maintainers Andrew L. Russell

New post on the newsletter today, "Start Where the Pain Is: Notes on Topic-Selection in Technology Studies," where I argue a driver of problems in technology studies is that folks tend to *start with technologies* when instead we should *start with pain*. peoples-things.ghost.io/start-where-th…

spectrum.ieee.org/osi-the-intern… Yes, #StandardsMatter! #NetHistory How standards are set determines the standards we get. TCP/IP, minimal and clear OSI, vague, all-sizes-to-fit-all

Some personal news...

🔆Very grateful for the feature review of "Wicked Problems" in nature : “Madhavan champions the importance of looking at seemingly technical problems through a wider lens...'Wicked Problems' is a wake-up call for all engineers to expand their mindset.” nature.com/articles/d4158…

💡 My mind-expanding conversation partners are engineer Pam Elardo (Brown and Caldwell) and historian Andrew L. Russell (SUNY - The State University of New York SUNY Polytechnic Institute). 🙏🏽 Thanks for listening, and please share! 💧 Peanut & Crumb Royal Academy of Engineering EngineerGirl National Academy of Engineering

What happens after we flush? 💧 In this #CreateTheFuture episode, Guru Madhavan speaks to Pam Elardo, former Deputy Commissioner for New York's Bureau of Wastewater Treatment, and Andrew L. Russell, Provost at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, about sanitation engineering. buff.ly/3xouNQP

ICYMI, from the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering "Create the Future" on the past, the present, and the future of sanitary #engineering—and what the Issues in Science and Technology team is listening! Feat. Pam Elardo of Brown and Caldwell and Andrew L. Russell of SUNY Polytechnic Institute qeprize.org/podcasts/the-f…

Great to be at SUNY Polytechnic Institute to tour the Semiconductor Processing to Packaging Research, Education, and Training Center with President Soboyejo, Joseph A. Griffo & Assemblywoman Marianne Buttenschon! This facility will serve as an epicenter for semiconductor research, education, and training.

Driving the future of the semiconductor industry. 🌟 Today, Chancellor King celebrated the development of SUNY Polytechnic Institute's Semiconductor Processing to Packaging Research, Education, and Training Center, which will help SUNY Poly expand workforce training and degree attainment in

SUNY - The State University of New York Chancellor John King Jr. joined researchers, faculty, students, and elected officials today for a site tour and celebration of the development of SUNY Poly's Semiconductor Processing to Packaging Research, Education, and Training Center.

🏗 My "New York Trilogy" in Issues in Science and Technology: What better place to understand the importance of #engineering than the Empire City. issues.org/category/new-y…

The Freakonomics Radio gang has reposted the 2016 episode, "In Praise of Maintenance," which featured Andrew L. Russell, me, and . . . Ruth Cowan! That was a significant turning point for The Maintainers. A lot of people reached out to us after that. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ext…

Is this a case of the innovation delusion? When safety and maintenance are secondary to an obsession with the new. Are we less safe and poorer as a result? Lee Vinsel Andrew L. Russell Vestas Wind Systems WorkSafe Victoria Danny Pearson MP abc.net.au/news/2024-11-1… Book amazon.com.au/Innovation-Del…