Conference Session

The Role of Engineering in Public Policy

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Harding, Purdue University; Paul McPherson, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

professionaldevelopment, as well as helping establish valuable contacts with industry and standards leaders,both nationally and internationally.IntroductionStandards have been an integral part of United States public policy since long before the terms‘public policy’ or even ‘standard’ were coined. In the early 18th Century, John Quincy Adamswrote about ‘standard’ weights and measures: “ Weights and measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every individual of human society. They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. They are necessary to every occupation of human industry; to the distribution and security of every species of property; to every transaction of trade and commerce; to the labors of