Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kacey D Beddoes, Oregon State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

enroll some participants with involvement in women inengineering initiatives). Public, departmental websites were used to randomly generate names. Page 26.626.2Yet, within the parameters of random sampling, purposeful steps were taken to recruit a fullrange of engineering disciplines, career levels, and an approximately even number of men andwomen.The interviews covered a wide range of topics that have been identified in prior scholarship ascontributing to either the gendering of engineering and/or women’s underrepresentation inengineering. The overarching aim of the interviews was to better understand what and howengineering faculty members

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division Technical Session - Retaining and Developing Women Faculty

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Margaret B. Bailey P.E., Rochester Institute of Technology (COE); Maureen S. Valentine, Rochester Institute of Technology (CAST); Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Elizabeth Marchetti, Rochester Institute of Technology (COS); DeLois Kijana Crawford, Rochester Institute of Technology; Wendy A. Dannels, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID)

Tagged Topics

ASEE Diversity Committee, Diversity, Engineering Deans Council

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy, Women in Engineering

Technology. She is a co-PI for RIT’s ADVANCE grant, where her focus is on structural changes that can improve the climate for women faculty in STEM.Prof. Sharon Patricia Mason, Rochester Institute of Technology Professor Sharon Mason is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Sciences and Tech- nology at RIT where she has served on the faculty since 1997. Sharon has been involved in computing security education at RIT since its inception. She is the PI of for the Department of Defense (DoD) In- formation Assurance Scholarship Program (IASP) awards to RIT. These scholarships enable students to study and do research in graduate programs in security, forensics and information assurance. To date

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Charles James Larkin, Trinity College Dublin; Shaen Corbet, Dublin City University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

Paper ID #21094Economic and Pedagogical Analysis of an Alternative Model of EngineeringEducationDr. R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by 14 years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on ultrafast optoelectronics and engineering edu- cation. While at Oklahoma State, he led a major curriculum reform initiative. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Foundation, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ellis, Idaho State University; Richard M. Wabrek P.E., Idaho State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

outside the classroom setting in which facultymembers are confronted with freedom of speech issues. For instance, a student asks a professorin class about his opinion of the dean’s plan to reorganize the college or department and the impactthis might have on the student’s career or graduation plans. Or perhaps, a professor serves on auniversity budget committee. Can this professor publish articles and engage in public debate usingthe information gained through his involvement as a member of the committee?The federal courts are currently split over the application of the First Amendment to speech byprofessors employed at public universities. In 2006 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Garcetti v.Ceballos1 that government employees may be disciplined

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy I

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mickey R. Wilhelm P.E., University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

respondentscited the importance of engineers in society nor referenced what engineers actually do.The Speed School is 87 years old, has 105 faculty and 130 staff members, and anenrollment of 2100 students (1425 undergraduate and 675 graduate students). It offersbaccalaureate, master of engineering, master of science and Ph.D. degrees in sevendisciplines. Its baccalaureate programs require mandatory cooperative internships, andthe Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET accredits its baccalaureate andmaster of engineering programs in all seven disciplines.In January 2006, using funds from an endowment, the author commissioned a publicrelations firm, Creative Alliance, Inc., to develop a campaign to educate the public,citizens whose tax dollars support

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

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

in theirexplanation. For example, “I personally think that as an engineer, we should learn more aboutpolicy, because it provides good skill in decision making”.The third category of instrumental effect further explains on what these participants will be ableto do with the knowledge of policy, such as a career investment as the sixth major theme andsocial contribution as the seventh major theme. The major theme career investment had 13participants who included this theme in their explanation. Examples includes: a) “Learningabout policy would be beneficial for my future career”; b) “It is a good knowledge to have whenworking for a business since every company has their own policy that they follow”; and c)“when we graduate we will have to deal

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology; Huaizhong Shao, Zhejiang University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

“university-industry cooperativeeducation” model4. All of these have proven that the involvement of industries andenterprises is an important part of cultivation of engineering workers. From theperspective of international engineering education experience, enterprises play animportant role in fostering students’ innovative, practical, and problem-solving abilitiesthrough participating in the development of training programs, curriculum and teaching,internships, graduation, and other areas. With the development of China's marketeconomy, the concept of training industry-oriented skills is recognized by universitiesand the community. Engineering skills training in colleges and universities alsoincreasingly relies on private enterprises. Thus, in recent