Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science and Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

) meeting global needs and challenges through the UnitedNations and similar organizations [6].In the opinion of the author, science diplomacy is less a well-defined subject and more aloosely-recognized concept (i.e., science diplomacy is best defined by “you know it whenyou see it”). Widely recognized examples of multi-lateral science diplomacy – such as,the 1954 founding of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known asCERN), the 1959 signing of the Antarctic Treaty System, and the 1998 launch of theInternational Space Station – provide an insight into the three pillars of sciencediplomacy, namely: 1) scientists serving as diplomats (i.e., the Iran nuclear deal, formerlyknown as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action adopted in October

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Murphy, Dublin Institute of Technology; Michael J. Dyrenfurth, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering and Public Policy

, utilitypatents and intellectual property protection.The countries that consistently rank highly in the Global Competitiveness Report all haveexcellent higher education systems with a strong focus on technology and innovation. In 2011,the top ten ranked countries in order were Switzerland, Singapore, Sweden, Finland, UnitedStates, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Japan and the United Kingdom. Other notables includeIsrael (22nd), China (26th) and Ireland (29th).Barack Obama spoke to the issue of US innovation in his State of the Union Speech on 25January 2011. In this speech he outlined his plan: …to help the United States win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building our global competition....What America does better than