Conference Session

Peace, Conflict, and Sustainability: Addressing Global and Ethical Issues in Engineering Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert J Muscat, Global Peace Services USA; Angela R Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Engineering and Public Policy

engineering professor at the University ofColorado Boulder and has interests in sustainability, Learning Through Service (course-basedservice-learning and extracurricular service programs), social responsibility development instudents, ethics, and global issues. Her teaching for undergraduate students has focusedprimarily in the first year and capstone design, with learning outcomes targeting sustainability inall of her courses. She has found that project-based learning is an effective method to achieve adiversity of inter-related, complex learning outcomes. She has also found that case studies canserve as the basis for stimulating students’ considerations of complex issues such as ethics andsustainability. A case study that she has used for many

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Judy L. Cezeaux, Western New England University

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Engineering and Public Policy

Initiatives,” includedspeakers from The Gatsby Charitable Trust and The Kavli Foundation, both private foundationssupporting neuroscience research, as well as researchers from the United States and Japan whodescribed their contributions toward the BRAIN Initiative and the Brain/MINDS project,respectively. The panelists described funding priorities and international efforts to understandthe fundamental mechanisms of the brain.STEM Policy ActivitiesAlthough my sabbatical goal included attendance at meetings and workshops related tobiomedical engineering policy, the opportunity arose to participate in activities related toScience, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) policy issues.I served as the AIMBE representative for a workshop held by the