Conference Session

Aspects of Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Todd Myers, Ohio University; Ben Stuart, Ohio University-Athens

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

sticking to thedeveloped syllabus. Based on the published syllabus (see Appendix), course outcomes that werediminished in coverage included outcomes 2, 5, 9, 16, and 17 and a few that were eliminated asexplicit topics (although some representative ideals were included in discussion of other topics)included outcomes 8, 10, and 14. The first two classes were devoted to writing basics, including assignments onpunctuation, format, citation, and style (e.g. APA vs. MLA). The next four classes focused onthe Federal government structure and processes (e.g. how laws are made and enacted) and anadditional two classes were spent on State government operations. The following two classeswere focused on introductory topics for writing public policy