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

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Engineering and Public Policy

education and the rising costs of college. The model was based upon alternativestructures of credentialing and financing as a response to these potential pressures. Thecurricular model proposes restructuring engineering degree program towards: 1) shorterundergraduate programs that focus on developing horizontal transfer of knowledge ratherthan in-depth disciplinary knowledge and 2) periodic in-depth “educational renewal”throughout an individual’s career. This structure is grounded by, and emerges from,established models of liberal arts degree programs and is supported by decades of evidenceon the aspects of college which most impact long-term student development. From a policyperspective in order for such a disruptive model to have a chance of

Conference Session

Topical Public Policy Issues

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Devon, Pennsylvania State University; Elizabeth Kisenwether, Pennsylvania State University; Richard Schuhmann, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University; Kim Barron, Pennsylvania State University

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Engineering and Public Policy

Engineering Skills and Making Oral Presentations. In Table C, preparation in theseskills is perceived to be higher than importance. Therefore, Table C lists the skills that newgraduates feel they are over prepared in and the importance is relatively low compared to theskills listed in Tables A and B.Two observations can be made from Table C. First, the topic identified by graduates as being themost over-prepared is Using General Education Course Materials (AHS). However, some of theskills that the graduates identified as being under-prepared in Table A are those skills that shouldbe covered in the General Education Courses. Further, they are more likely to gain value fromthese courses as they advance in their careers. The other four skills in Table C

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

student learning inSTEM via formation, nurturance and sustaining an important targeted school-university urbaneducational partnership. Our university has partnered with a large urban school district to plan,deliver and sustain a targeted inservice teacher professional development and a middle and highschool STEM curriculum intervention.Teacher Intervention Through our university partnership with local urban public middle and high schools, weengaged in a targeted recruitment of mid career teachers in the sciences. The project’s leadershipteam has worked with teams of two teachers who were placed, based on research interest, in anengineering laboratory that is conducting research using societally relevant engineeringtechnologies. The teacher

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Murray Teitell, DeVry University, Long Beach; William S. Sullivan, DeVry University, Long Beach

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Engineering and Public Policy

account allows student engineers andtechnologists to make better selections of the best designs in terms of performance,cost, and return on investment for new product situations in their future careers.14-15References1. Smith Kevin B. and Larimer, Christopher W. (2009). The Public Policy Theory Primer. Philadelphia: Westview Press.2. Halimahtun, M. K. (2006). Embracing diversity in user needs for affective design. Applied Ergonomics, 37(4), 409-418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ j.apergo.2006.04.0053. Mihelcic, J. R., Crittenden, J. C., Small, M. J., Shonnard, D. R., Zhang, Q., Chen, H., . . . Schnoor, J. L. (2003). Sustainability science and engineering: the emergence of a new metadiscipline. Environ. Sci Technol., 37(23), 5314

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Engineering and Public Policy

for a longitudinal study of the effects ofinnovative teaching (DUE-9150407) and in 1993 prestigious NSF Faculty Early CareerDevelopment (CAREER) awards were made to engineers Cynthia Atman of the University ofWashington (DRL-9358516) and Martin Ramirez of Johns Hopkins University (DRL-9358518)with joint funding provided by three different NSF units. Atman’s research examined how first-year engineering students developed strategies for solving open-ended, ambiguous problems thatclosely resemble problems in the engineering workplace, while Ramirez used research fromcognitive science and educational psychology to develop a framework for teaching engineeringso students learned how to make appropriate judgments for their work. By 2001, NSF

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Pioneering Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert Green, Mississippi State University; Jerry Emison, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

alone. We explained to the students that, intheir professional careers, they will often run across those who do not share the load equally butthe job must still be done and, if done poorly, reflects on everyone on the team. We consideredthe possibility of using peer reviews of the teams when we assigned grades but so far have optedto give the same grade to each team member. Figure 3 shows that, in spite of the few problems,most of the students thought everyone contributed. Page 11.932.9 Everyone in my group contributed to the case study presentation. 20

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

with so many professional obligations competing for our time and few tangible short-term career rewards for such activities, we often fail to get involved. This year, resolve to tithe 2% of your time to public engagement. This translates to an average of about 1 h per week writing op-ed pieces, giving lecture to community groups, providing pro bono support to a civic group – essentially anything that brings you into contact with people who do not know the difference between an IC and GC [19].But this encouragement towards public engagement in 2018 seems to contradict a prior warningoffered in an editorial in September, 2016 entitled, “Crossing The Imaginary Line,” [20] inwhich Sedlak had previously shared

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University; Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University; Ali Ghobahi Katamjani, Wichita State University

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Engineering and Public Policy

Paper ID #9114Efficiency Measure for Colleges of EngineeringDr. Don E. Malzahn, Wichita State University Don E. Malzahn is Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Oklahoma State University. In his 40-year teaching career, he has taught a wide range of Industrial Engineering courses and currently directs the department’s capstone design experience. His research interests are in systems engineering, decision analysis, and engineering education.Dr. Lawrence E. Whitman, Wichita State University Lawrence E. Whitman is Associate Dean of

Conference Session

Assessment and Evaluation of K-12 Engineering Programs

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Vanderbilt University; Amber C. Spolarich, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy, K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

curriculum unit to real-life. A few RET programs have found successcomparable to that of Vanderbilt University in program implementation, though student levelresults have not been reported. The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Physics RET programsaw similar results: a majority of the teachers claimed the program gave them the ability toencourage students effectively to pursue a major in science or engineering.18 In addition, thePolytechnic Institute of New York University also found that their RET program allowed theirparticipants to conduct inquiry-based teaching successfully while engaging the students inSTEM-related curricula.19 The Texas A&M RET program aims to do the same while alsoimproving teachers’ knowledge about careers in engineering

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering and Public Policy

or a strong connection to technology use to help students connect technical and policy subjects.Since the range of breadth and depth of the energy history is so vast, the case study proposedcovers the years between 1880 and 1935, highlights a series of legislative pursuits and impactson the private energy sector, the evolution of the energy product, and the development of theenergy industry. This case study will expose students to a portion of energy policy history in theUnited States and therefore help them understand the development of the current energy policyenvironment.Sample Case Study This section outlines the case study selected for this module. This case study follows aportion of the career of Samuel Insull and the

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

and female students were admitted to the Faculty of Engineering at KabulUniversity, and Kabul Polytechnic Institute, through a general University Entrance Examthat was conducted by the Ministry of Higher Education. Among the applicants,Engineering Faculty was the third favourite career of higher learning after the Medical andLaw faculties in the country.In addition to Faculty of Engineering at Kabul University, and Kabul Polytechnic, severaltechnical community colleges and vocational high schools existed in Afghanistan wheretechnicians and skilled workers in various fields of technology were educated. There wasalso a well-established two-year telecommunication college within the Ministry ofCommunications which trained technicians for the

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology; Huaizhong Shao, Zhejiang University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

focusesthe model of university-industry collaborative cultivation on the needs of studentinternship. The collaborative models can be divided into two categories. The firstcategory is a “theoretical study before internships” model, such as the “3+1” model. Inthis model, the students will study at university for the first three years and do privateenterprise internships in the last year. For example, Xi'an University of Science andTechnology arranges for students to complete study in the enterprises in the seventhand eighth semesters. The student should finish courses related to enterprises’ actualoperation, be familiar with the enterprise, start pre-job training, develop career plans,etc. in the seventh semester, followed by the post practice in the

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J. Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Ida B. Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Lamis J. Behbehani, Purdue University; Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette; P. Suresh C. Rao, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Monica Farmer Cox, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering and Public Policy

J. Behbehani is a Ph.D. candidate in ecological sciences and the Engineering Interdisciplinary program, Purdue University.Dr. Demetra Evangelou, Purdue University, West Lafayette Demetra Evangelou, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She obtained her B.A. in psychology from Northeastern Illinois University, and a M.Ed. and Ph.D. in education from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is a member of Sigma Xi Science Honor Society. Evangelou was awarded an NSF CAREER grant in 2009 and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2011. Evangelou’s current research focuses on engineering thinking, developmental factors in

Conference Session

Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

survey. Thesurvey consisted of three questions to gauge if students felt that public meetings wereimportant and what skills and preparation were necessary for them to be successful.Results of the pre-training surveyPre-Test Question Pre-Test Answers:1. If they thought they would have to - 22 students (every student in the class)conduct public meetings in their civil answered that working with the publicengineering career and why. would be part of their job - The why section of the question was answered because stakeholders in projects need to be

Conference Session

The Role of Engineering in Public Policy

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Harding, Purdue University; Paul McPherson, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

technical details of control systems using current techniques and graphical standards.”14 • In the program criteria for surveying./geomatics engineering technology criteria under objectives, “An accreditable program in surveying/geomatics engineering technology will prepare graduates with the technical skills necessary to enter careers … and are prepared to design and select appropriate measurement systems, analyze positional accuracy in conformance with appropriate standards, …”15pRecommendationsOn a more direct level the ABET criteria must be clarified in both engineering and engineeringtechnology. With more lucid criteria, standards textbooks and other learning material wouldfollow. Some principles and practice exams require familiarity

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

Conference Session

Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David A. Koonce, Ohio University; Jie Zhou, Ohio University; Cynthia D. Anderson, Ohio University; Dyah A. Hening; Valerie Martin Conley, Ohio University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

, there may not be many scholars or universities doing research in food technologies.RamificationsThe ramification of this mismatch is that universities and institutions which focus on educationhave a focus on STEM which differs from those of organizations focusing on workforce needs.This disconnect likely leads to an emphasis on career development which does not match theintent of developing a STEM workforce. The fragmented approach to defining STEM in an adhoc manner to suit the needs of a specific organization should be countered with a unifieddefinition of STEM that best suits the needs of the country. Page 22.1684.8LimitationsThe

Conference Session

Engineering, Engineers and Setting Public Policy

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Bodde, Clemson University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

influence the success of public policies by their assertiveness and skill inensuring that technical judgment receives due weight in the implementing decisions. Yetas a practical matter, meaningful risks to employment, career, and reputation attend thisassertiveness, and the question of when an engineer has done his or her duty ranks highamong the ethical considerations of the profession.Consider the case of the R-101, the air disaster that effectively ended Great Britain’sparticipation in lighter-than-air transport. On a rainy Autumn morning in 1930, the R-101 nosed into the ground on a ridge in France. The crash itself occurred at low speedand so appeared relatively benign; but the hydrogen gas ignited, and 48 of the 54 personsaboard perished

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Gillespie, Rowan University; Krishan Bhatia, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

provide both an asset to sustainability efforts in New Jerseyand educational experiences to the students. Specific aspects of ongoing projects that addressvarious ABET A-K criteria are identified. In particular, these projects teach engineeringstudents about the ethical responsibilities of engineers in regard to environmental consciousness,teach them to promote and enact change in the local community, and prepare them for careers insustainability.Project-Based Learning at Rowan UniversityThe engineering clinic sequence is an essential aspect of the Rowan University Engineeringcurriculum. The engineering clinics were established to help students to develop the so-called“soft skills” identified by the ABET A-K criteria, as well as to apply and

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew J Bates, Polytechnic Institute of New York University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

monitored construction schedules and continually communicated progress to all appropriate stakeholders, and designed a construction lay down area with the Army Corps of Engineers and the contractor and coordinated alternative traffic flow with emergency response and facility personnel. Mr. Bates’ career in the Air Force provided experience with several Department of Defense construction projects where he was able to refine his leadership and construction management skills. He planned, resourced, and executed the design-build of over thirty construction projects involving airfield pavements, base facilities, maintenance and repair ranging from $25K to $180M. He wrote project statements of work, performed periodic

Conference Session

Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martin S. High, Oklahoma State University; Joseph M. Nowakowski, Muskingum University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

as some other career. Students at the undergraduate level may beable to respond to adverse movements by changing majors, and even graduate students willconsider other options if the costs of becoming a professional engineer grow to outweigh thebenefits. On the other hand, degrees are not earned overnight. Movements in relative wages willlikely lead to changes in the number of qualified job candidates in four to six years at thebachelor’s level, a couple of years at the master’s level and six to seven years at the doctorallevel.13 It would not be surprising if falling relative wages would lead to quicker declines in thenumber of job candidates than rising relative wages would produce more candidates.One final note concerns the entry into the

Conference Session

Aspects of Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Myers, Ohio University; Ben Stuart, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

entrance that could not be accommodated.Most students responded that they were intrigued by the course topic and felt an understandingof, and ability to contribute to, policy writing was a valuable tool for their respective careers. As per University calendar, the class met on Monday and Thursday evenings for twohours. With a ten-week quarter system and one observed holiday, this provided 19 classsessions. Slight modifications to the course content and outcomes were made based onevaluation of the student’s level of response and degree of questioning during the first severalclass meetings. It was decided that covering fewer outcomes at a pace that offered greaterprobability of mastery was preferred to rushing through material for the sake of

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

impact higher education deprivesthose creating the policies of the perspectives and skills of engineers.For most of his career, the author of this paper would have fit the description of an engineeringfaculty member who was fairly aware of what was being done with regards to policies impactinghigher education, but would have had no role in the creation or implementation of the policiesand would have not even recognized what he could have done. But, through a series of events,the author found himself in a key faculty governance role at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) during the tenure changes in Wisconsin. Here, the author will describe hisrole and activities, as an example of how engineering faculty can get involved in

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

the profession and for the behavior ofprofessionals in practice. How such standardization is achieved varies from country to country as does the status of theprofessional qualification. In both the United States and the United Kingdom a doctorate is the usual qualification forteaching engineering at the university level, not the Professional Engineer (USA) or the Chartered Engineer (UK)qualification. Thus many candidates for university teaching are newly qualified PhD’s without any experience ofengineering in the outside world. The PhD serves as a “standard” that qualifies a person to undertake research. Since aPhD is not a guarantee that a faculty member can teach or has been trained to teach, in one aspect of their careers manyengineering