Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Alexander Mendoza-Garcia, Purdue University / Pontificia Universidad Javeriana

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

Page 23.391.2future policy participation (two yes/no questions), prior policy knowledge (3 open-endedquestions and three yes/no questions), interest in public policy (4 yes/no questions and 3 open-ended questions) and demographic information (11 questions). In appendix A, the completecollection of questions used for the pilot study can be found.Strategy for a “good question construction”23 included support from undergrad students. Fiveundergrad students were recruited: one senior mechanical engineering student and a group ofstudents of environmental and ecological engineering: one senior, one sophomore and one junior.As a result, some of the wording was changed. For example, one of the questions asked: “Whatpolicy issues are currently most