Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Charles James Larkin, Trinity College Dublin; Shaen Corbet, Dublin City University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

[made with past issues in mind]. I think this is one of the reasons there’s an enormous gapbetween the culture of Washington and the culture of Silicon Valley, where people talk aboutthe future (future-oriented) technology questions all the time. But the culture of Washingtonis locked into the past. So anything which is changing and changing fast finds it almostimpossible to get a look in”. Given that engineers are in large part the cause of these changes,they have a responsibility to ensure the problems they create are the subject of public/politicaldiscussion. However, the historical and systemic lack of response to high level reports [9]–[12], especially in the U.S., suggests that the effects of rapidly changing technology willcome upon