Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jacqueline Isaacs, Northeastern University; Christopher Bosso, Northeastern University; Carol Barry, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

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Engineering and Public Policy

lecturessought to focus student attention to the societal and regulatory issues that will arise asnanotechnology moves from the laboratory to commercial production. Page 11.548.4Technology and regulation (Week 4). Professor William D. Kay, Department of PoliticalScience, offered an overview of why governments historically have intervened in the marketsystem to regulate emerging technologies or their side effects. Based on experiences with othernew technologies, Kay noted that effective regulatory frameworks and institutions can serve topromote the advancement of research and development, promote more timely commercializationof products, protect the

Conference Session

Topical Public Policy Issues

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carole Womeldorf, Ohio University-Athens

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Engineering and Public Policy

2006-1722: HOLD PARAMOUNT: DESIGNING AN ENGINEERING EDUCATIONTO OPEN MINDS AND SERVE THE PUBLIC GOODCarole Womeldorf, Ohio University-Athens Carole Womeldorf is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Ohio University. Her areas of technical expertise and interests include distributed energy generation, combustion, heat transfer and fluid dynamics. She worked in the Fire Sciences Division of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology from 1993 to 2000. Dr. Womeldorf earned her Sc.B. et A.B. in Mechanical Engineering and English and American Literature from Brown University, her Masters of Science in Oceanographic Engineering from