Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew J Bates, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

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Engineering and Public Policy

, and solve problems at the boundaries of traditional disciplines. As always within the civil engineering profession, change must be accomplished mindful of the profession’s primary concern for protecting public safety, health, and welfare.” iiIn general, risk is understood in a variety of ways. One may be interested in estimating fatalitieson a highway, or the precipitation quantity from a 100 year storm, or the magnitude andfrequency of earthquakes in a specific region. These are all good and useful exercises, however,the goal of this paper is to: 1. Define “risk engineering” as an integrating discipline that supports design development, project controls and project management. 2. Develop a theoretical

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

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Engineering and Public Policy

interest in social issues. Page 23.391.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Developing an instrument to assess student’s prior knowledge, and possible interest in public policy courses.IntroductionAwareness and understanding of the public policy process and analysis have emerged as keythemes of undergraduate engineering education. Undergraduate engineering students need toknow this process and analysis to support the current and future regulation of technology.1–3Identification of students’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards public policy is needed

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mickey R. Wilhelm P.E., University of Louisville

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Engineering and Public Policy

Commerce is worried about whether we’re producing enoughSTEM graduates from our colleges and universities.” American companies are quite Page 23.506.2concerned about impending shortages of workers to fill science, technology, engineering  1 and mathematics jobs in the future. Shortages of workers trained in these fields couldlogically impede the growth of technology, lower competitiveness with otherindustrialized nations, and thereby exacerbate the decline of the U. S. economy.Likely, all engineering educators who are at all interested in policy matters have read thatChina and India are producing from 5 to 10 times

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ida B Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dennis R. Depew, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Jane Dark, Purdue University; Rylan C. Chong, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering and Public Policy

certificate program and a studyabroad experience.IntroductionThe importance of including policy education in the engineering curriculum has been recognizedby experts from bodies including the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology(ABET), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)1, and the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE)2, 3. Engineers have a dual role in public policy: helping to createpublic policy related to the use of technology and monitoring and assuring compliance with suchpolicies, and using engineering knowledge to assist in the construction of policy directives tohelp solve social problems. The increasing proliferation of scientific and technological artifactsinto society creates an increased need to

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Kacey Beddoes, Purdue University

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Engineering and Public Policy

Engineering StudentsIntroductionThe significance of economic considerations and financial aid in access to andpersistence in higher education is widely recognized [1-9]. In engineering educationspecifically, researchers have also increasingly begun to analyze economic factors inpersistence and attrition of engineering students [10-13]. Our analysis builds on such recentscholarship. In particular, it explores the role that individual financial need played in theattrition of high achieving engineering students at one institution and proposes individualfinancial status (IFS) as an important variable for future studies.An examination of students who left an engineering program at a private institution in thesouthern region of United States showed that

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rylan C. Chong, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Dennis R. Depew, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ida B Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Melissa Jane Dark, Purdue University

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Engineering and Public Policy

population, the usage of a specific technology, or theextent of a particular law. As there are many examples, we will provide two: 1. One method for delimiting scope is around a particular actor(s), which aligns to the instructional goal of studying major policy actors. An example would be Franklin Roosevelt whose education in “the field of utility economics and regulation began at the Page 23.1149.7 turn of the century with course work at Harvard College and Columbia Law School” 7. In 1933 and the period of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt became the 32nd President of the United States. During his 1932