Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin; R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

criteria of expertise, behavior, and ethical standardsevidenced by a code of conduct it is worth asking whether engineering educators should seekprofessional status in the larger sense of the word. The difficulties inherent in answering thisquestion have already been alluded to earlier in the paper and relate to the way engineeringeducators are socialized into the university and how “engineering” is defined within academia.Schools of engineering seek the best graduates from their or other schools for doctoral programs.Typically the most successful graduates are recruited directly into the university in a position thathas defined duties in both teaching and research. Since they have no ‘world’ experience ofengineering they bring a view of the