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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

as part of a dual level(undergraduate and graduate) elective course on science diplomacy.IntroductionScience diplomacy – the triune approach of: 1) scientists acting as diplomats; 2)diplomats facilitating scientific collaboration; and 3) cultural diplomacy via scientificgatherings and international exchange – is both a long-standing and a recently re-emergedaspect of international relations [1]. For example, the first Ambassador of the UnitedStates was inventor-scientist Benjamin Franklin, and the first Secretary of State wasfarmer-scientist Thomas Jefferson. More recently, in 1961, Article 3 of the ViennaConvention on Diplomatic Relations was written to highlight that, “the functions of adiplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in