Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

curriculum already contains material related to publicpolicy issues, although not explicitly defined as such to students. For example, our junior-levellaboratory course contains a module on the use of humans and animals in research which tracesthe origins of legislation related to these issues and the relevant regulations involvingInstitutional Review Boards (IRB) and Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC). This isfollowed by a senior-level laboratory where students perform experiments on human subjectsafter completing the process to obtain IRB approval. Finally, students are introduced to the FDAQuality Systems Regulations during the first semester of our two-semester senior capstonedesign sequence and follow the process outlined in the regulations