Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Centers, The MITRE Corporation; Michael A Balazs; Titilayo Ogunyale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

regarding digitalreadiness.More broadly, common terms for best practices proved requisite amongst all IWGs. At thebeginning of the Strategic Plan’s implementation, ‘best practices’ as a term was ubiquitous likelydue to its use in a range of spaces such as education, research, business, industry, and publicpolicy. Furthermore, IWGs needed a way to describe the various development stages that a givenpractice may be in so that entities could use recommended practices appropriately. This led to thedevelopment of shared definitions for evidence-based, emerging, and promising practices.The definition for evidence-based practices was inspired by the National Institutes of Health’s(NIH’s) definition of evidence-based medicine.Definition 4.3 (evidence-based