Poel, I.R. van de (Ibo)
Research profile
Ibo van de Poel is an associate professor in ethics and technology at Delft University of Technology. He studied philosophy of science, technology and society, with a propaedeutic exam in mechanical engineering. In 1998, he obtained his PhD in science and technology studies (STS) with a dissertation on the dynamics of technological development; his supervisor was prof. dr. A. Rip. During the last few years, he has done research and published in the following areas: the dynamics of technological development, codes of conduct and professional ethics of engineers, the moral acceptability of technological risks, ethics in engineering design, and ethics and responsibility in R&D networks. He receives regularly invitations for international conferences and workshops and contributions to encyclopaedias in these areas. Since 1997, he is lecturing in ethics and technology for several engineering course programs at Delft University of Technology. He has been involved in several educational innovations in this area, including the development of the web-based computer program AGORA and the first Dutch textbook on ethics and technology.
3TU.Ethics Projects
Ethical and regulatory issues raised by synthetic biology
Ethical aspects of upscaling an innovative water treatment technology
Ethical issues in engineering design: safety and sustainabillity
Moral responsibility in R&D networks
Scientific publications (selection)
Van de Poel, Ibo, and Sjoerd D. Zwart. forthcoming. Reflective Equilibrium in R&D Networks. Science, Technology & Human Values available online
Franssen, Maarten, Gert-Jan Lokhorst and Ibo van de Poel. 2009. "Philosophy of Technology", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.) available online
Gorp, A.C. van, and IR van de Poel. 2008. Deciding on ethical issues in engineering design. In Philosophy and design: from engineering to architecture edited by P. Vermaas, A. L. PA Kroes and S. Moore. New York: Springer available online
Poel, IR van de 2008. How should we do nanoethics? A network approach for discerning ethical issues in nanotechnology. Nanoethics: ethics for technologies that converge at the nanoscale 2 (1):25-38.available online
Poel, IR van de. 2008. The bugs eat the waste: what else is there to know? Changing professional hegemony in the design of sewage treatment plants. Social studies of science 38 (4):605-634.available online
Lloyd, Peter, and Ibo van de Poel. 2008. "Designing Games to Teach Ethics". Science and Engineering Ethics 14(3):433-447.available online
van de Poel, I.R. 2007. Methodological Problems in QFD and Directions for Future Development. Research in Engineering Design 18:21-36.available online
van de Poel, Ibo, and Lamber Royakkers. 2007. The Ethical Cycle. Journal of Business Ethics 71 (1):1-13.available online
van de Poel, I.R., and P.P. Verbeek. 2006. Editorial: Ethics and Engineering Design. Science, Technology & Human Values 31:223-236.available online
van de Poel, Ibo, and Anke van Gorp. 2006. The Need for Ethical Reflection in Engineering Design the Relevance of Type of Design and Design Hierarchy. Science, Technology & Human Values 31 (3):333-360.available online
van de Poel, Ibo, and Peter Kroes. 2006. Technology and Normativity. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, Fall 2006, 10 (1):1-6.
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Kroes, P.A., M.P.M. Franssen, I.R. van de Poel, and M.M. Ottens. 2006. Treating Socio-Technical Systems as Engineering Systems: Some Conceptual Problems. Systems Research and Behavioral Science 23 (6):803-814.available online
Ottens, Maarten, Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, and Ibo van de Poel. 2006. Modelling Infrastructures as Socio-Technical Systems. International Journal of Critical Infrastructures 2 (2-3):133 - 145 available online
Zwart, Sjoerd D., Ibo van de Poel, Harald van Mil, and Michiel Brumsen. 2006. A Network Approach for Distinguishing Ethical Issues in Research and Development. Science and Engineering Ethics 12 (4):663-684.available online
van de Poel, I.R., S.D. Zwart, M. Brumsen, and H.G.J. van Mil. 2005. Risks of Aerobic Granular Sludge Technology. Ethical and Methodological Aspects. In Aerobic Granular Sludge, edited by S. Bathe, M. K. de Kreuk, B. S. Mc Swain and N. Schwarzenbeck. London: IWA Publishing.available online
van de Poel, Ibo. 2005. Engineering Design Ethics. In Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, edited by C. Mitcham. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
van der Burg, Simone, and I.R. van de Poel. 2005. Teaching Ethics and Technology with Agora, an Electronic Tool. Science and Engineering Ethics 11 (2):277-297.available online
Van de Poel, I.R. 2003. The Transformation of Technological Regimes. Research Policy 32(1): 49-68.available online
Van de Poel, I. 2001. Investigating Ethical Issues in Engineering Design. Science and Engineering Ethics 7(3): 429-446. available online
Van Gorp, Anke and Ibo van de Poel. 2001. Ethical Considerations in Engineering Design Processes. IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 20(3): 15-22. available online
van de Poel, Ibo. 1998. Changing Technologies. A Comparative Study of Eight Processes of Transformation Of Technological Regimes. Dissertation University of Twente, Enschede.
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
Vermaas, Pieter, Peter Kroes, Ibo Van de Poel, Maarten Franssen, en Wybo Houkes. 2009. Kernthema's in de technische wetenschap. Boom.available online
van de Poel, I.R. 2007. De Vermeende Neutraliteit van Techniek: De Professionele Idealen van Ingenieurs. In Werkzame Idealen: Ethische Reflecties Op Professionaliteit, edited by J. Kole and D. de Ruyter. Assen: Van Gorcum.available online
van de Poel, I.R. 2006. Kan Quality Function Deployment (Qfd) Bijdragen aan Meer Verantwoorde Productontwikkeling. Filosofie 16 (4):40-44.
van Mil, Harald, Ibo van de Poel, and Sjoerd Zwart. 2006. Ethiek in de Afvalwaterzuivering. H2O: Tijdschrift voor Watervoorziening en Waterbeheer, 39 (4):22-24.available online
Royakkers, L., I. van de Poel en A. Pieters 2004. Ethiek & Techniek. Morele overwegingen in de ingenieurspraktijk. Baarn, HBuitgevers.available online
Teaching
WM0324LR Ethics and Technology for Aerospace Engineers
ID 5471 Ethics for Industrial Design Engineers and Architects
