Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Engineering and Public Policy

reason for German technical superiority in thesecond-half of the nineteenth century was the British failure to take education, let alonetechnical education seriously except in so far as it was an upper middle and upper classactivity undertaken in the public schools. Compulsory elementary education was notintroduced until 1870 many years after Germany had taken the same step. Barnett in avociferous criticism of the liberal education views of Matthew Arnold and John Henry Page 24.666.8Newman, claimed that they high-jacked the public school curriculum, and Arnold’s viewswhich were particularly evangelical held sway. Moreover, they persisted into the

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Engineering and Public Policy

as Dean of the College of Applied Sciences at Western Carolina University from 1999-2002.Ms. Ida B Ngambeki, Purdue University, West Lafayette Page 24.1211.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2014 The efficacy of case studies for teaching policy in engineering and technology coursesIntroductionThe purpose of this paper was to extend the work of Chong, Depew, Ngambeki, and Dark“Teaching social topics in engineering: The case of energy policy and social goals,” thatdiscussed a process to create, integrate, and teach public policy topics in an

Conference Session

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

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deanna H. Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University

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Engineering and Public Policy

problems, to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams, and to consider non-technical perspectives, long before the characteristics of the “Engineer of 2020”1 was everdefined.This paper discusses the EPP program over its four decades and how the program integrates withthe traditional engineering programs. We discuss the curriculum over time, the course selectionsstudents make, and the benefits our alumni receive from the program. We will give an overviewof our capstone EPP Projects course, a truly interdisciplinary teamwork situation addressingcurrent technology issues. Finally we reflect on how the program achieves the ABET (a) through(k) outcomes and work in the ABET system, and how the program has been successful these past40 years.We do not

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

Safer weapons Test bed for FFISfor equipment and weaponsDependable and rugged Safety of FFIS Laws requiring use of FFISequipment and weapons Page 24.1131.9Conclusions Students used these statistical methods to select the public policy thatsupported their senior project and the products and services. Engineers andtechnologists are not educated or trained to consider or incorporate public policy intheir services or products. The addition of metrics designed to integrate public policyconsideration in senior projects allows students to develop an understanding of publicpolicy. Taking the public policies into