Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey D Beddoes, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

enroll some participants with involvement in women inengineering initiatives). Public, departmental websites were used to randomly generate names. Page 26.626.2Yet, within the parameters of random sampling, purposeful steps were taken to recruit a fullrange of engineering disciplines, career levels, and an approximately even number of men andwomen.The interviews covered a wide range of topics that have been identified in prior scholarship ascontributing to either the gendering of engineering and/or women’s underrepresentation inengineering. The overarching aim of the interviews was to better understand what and howengineering faculty members

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ellis, Idaho State University; Richard M. Wabrek P.E., Idaho State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

outside the classroom setting in which facultymembers are confronted with freedom of speech issues. For instance, a student asks a professorin class about his opinion of the dean’s plan to reorganize the college or department and the impactthis might have on the student’s career or graduation plans. Or perhaps, a professor serves on auniversity budget committee. Can this professor publish articles and engage in public debate usingthe information gained through his involvement as a member of the committee?The federal courts are currently split over the application of the First Amendment to speech byprofessors employed at public universities. In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Garcetti v.Ceballos1 that government employees may be disciplined