Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Clifford E. Griffin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

Making in American Politics; Phase II—Decision Making in Engineering and Science;Phase III—Ethical Issues in Engineering and Policy. Interspersed throughout these three phaseswould be the laboratory component whereby students would meet with legislators and heads ofstate government agencies, such as transportation, environment and water, at the StateLegislative Building and government offices in surrounding areas.Phase IStudents were introduced to some of the fundamentals of the policy process from the socialscience perspective through an exploration of various decision-making models. We drew uponBrower and Abolafia’s “Bureaucratic Politics: The View from Below,” [1] which builds upon thesocial science gold standard—Graham Allison’s Conceptual