Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine; Kenneth Nichols, University of Maine

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

administration and civil engineering fields are alwaysworking together in practice. Public administration professionals are decision makers whoprovide the long-term plan and vision for development within federal, state, and local levels. Asdecision makers, these professionals decide which projects are viable. Engineering professionalsdesign, analyze, and execute planned projects. These professionals take the vision to a realitythat ultimately the public uses and the public administration professional needs to maintain. Though public administration and engineering professionals work together, they oftenmisunderstand one another’s roles. The public administration professional works within a publicpolicymaking process and regulatory sphere that

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

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Engineering and Public Policy

, laboratories, and the bulk of the academic staff were provided by USSR as partof technical assistance. This program, too, had an organized plan to train Afghan faculty tocarry the academic operation of that institute in the future. The curriculum of Polytechnicwas devoted to the Civil Engineering, Mining, and Geology fields. The curriculum in eacharea was much more specialized at the undergraduate level than the typical undergraduateprogram in the US institutions of higher learning. The Polytechnic curriculum was a five-year BS program with six months practical. Most of the teaching materials were translatedinto the local languages, Pashto and Dari. In some cases, students in the last few semesterscould use Russian textbooks in their courses.Both male

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

, and othernon-research institutions). Although NSF provides examples of such activities, there is currentlyno method by which to gauge grantee attention to the Broader Impacts Criterion or the success ofsuch efforts when they are asserted. To provide suggestions of possible metrics, The Center forthe Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) at the National Academyof Engineering (NAE), with NSF support, convened a workshop consisting of individualsbroadly representative of NSF’s grantee communities. The group suggested that, at a minimum,grantee institutions should provide both their existing affirmative action plans as well as specificinformation on collaborations with underrepresented institutions. In addition, the working

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2008-2726: A STUDENT OVERVIEW IN PRACTICAL SUSTAINABILITYCindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University Dr. CYNTHIA (CINDY) ORNDOFF is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering. She received a B.S. in 1984, an M.S. in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2001, all in Civil Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to her coming to FGCU she was an Assistant Professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has taught courses in infrastructure management, planning, introduction to transportation and construction management. She has a passionate interest in sustainability as well as policy which led to her

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

University ofVirginia, the University of Georgia, and Utah State.As evidence of the continued growth of engineering education as a research discipline, theJournal of Engineering Education was repositioned in January 2003 to focus on publishingscholarly research in engineering education. This refined focus was celebrated in a specialJanuary 2005 issue entitled, “The Art and Science of Engineering Education Research,”[17] andwill be marked again in an upcoming special 2008 issue tentatively titled “How People LearnEngineering.” The journal has a five-year strategic plan (2005-10) in which it is pursuing seveninitiatives to accelerate the growth of a community of scholars and practitioners dedicated toadvancing engineering education through research[18

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Gillespie, Rowan University; Krishan Bhatia, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

efforts for PV by the NJCEP were extremely successful – there is currently a longqueue of customers waiting to apply for a rebate program. As a result, outreach for PV power iscurrently deemphasized by the NJCEP. Research on the application of micro-hydro power inNew Jersey is currently being planned. Table 2. Summary of the four main project activities 1. Clean Energy Symposia 2. Energy Audits 3. Anemometer Loan Program 4. Technical Support and Outreach Page 13.1060.5Continued funding through state