Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary Cruz, Great Minds in STEM

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Engineering and Public Policy

attending PWIs (Solorzano, 1995) 41. On the other hand,because HSIs do not represent the complete ethnic demographics of society, they potentiallyhave the effect of providing an over-sheltered education. In other words, the educationLatinos/as receive in the absence of diversity at an HSI, may make the transition into thedominant white-male STEM workforce may be a culture shock.MethodologyAccording to the 2010 U.S. Census, the ten states with the largest Hispanic population wereCalifornia, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Arizona, New Jersey, Colorado, New Mexico andGeorgia. These states accounted for 78.3 percent of all Latinos in the U.S. (Ennis, Ríos-Vargas,& Albert, 2011) 42. Data derived from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ganapathy Subramanian Natarajan, Texas Tech University; Chinweike I Eseonu, Texas Tech University; David A. Wyrick PE, PEM, Texas Tech University

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Engineering and Public Policy

collaboration among the University of Maribor, Municipality of Maribor, NGOs, andother local agencies.The different cases and other research articles point towards an interdisciplinary engineeringeducation to foster sustainable thinking. The cases also indicate that integrating sustainableeducation as part of the curriculum improves the environmental awareness among the students.Challenges to Implementation in the United StatesEseonu and Wyrick (2011)10 introduce an application of physical heat transfer to the process ofpolicy transfer. They explain that similarities and differences between countries determine therate and success of policy transfer. Sustainability is a less culturally sensitive subject in Europethan is the case in the United States

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Timothy R.B. Taylor P.E., University of Kentucky; Johne' M. Parker, University of Kentucky

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Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2012-4240: USING PUBLIC POLICY THEORY TO IMPROVE POWERENGINEERING EDUCATIONDr. Timothy R.B. Taylor P.E., University of KentuckyProf. Johne’ M. Parker, University of Kentucky Johne’ M. Parker is an Associate Professor of mechanical engineering. Page 25.1438.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Using Public Policy Theory to improve Power Engineering EducationIntroductionAs society continually increases its reliance on complex, highly integrated technological systemsto function, engineering education must evolve to include not only traditional engineeringsubjects