Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1: In the Classroom

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

in theirexplanation. For example, “I personally think that as an engineer, we should learn more aboutpolicy, because it provides good skill in decision making”.The third category of instrumental effect further explains on what these participants will be ableto do with the knowledge of policy, such as a career investment as the sixth major theme andsocial contribution as the seventh major theme. The major theme career investment had 13participants who included this theme in their explanation. Examples includes: a) “Learningabout policy would be beneficial for my future career”; b) “It is a good knowledge to have whenworking for a business since every company has their own policy that they follow”; and c)“when we graduate we will have to deal