Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Elizabeth Cady, National Academy of Engineering; Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

compliance with the Broadening Participation criteriawithout imposing undue work on the individuals or institutions submitting grant proposals. Thegoals and procedures of the workshop group are described elsewhere [10].RecommendationsAlthough individuals write the funding proposals for their projects, it is their home institutionsthat must account for the education and research activities of their faculty and staff, institutionsthat develop policies that support or impede diversification efforts, and institutions that are morelikely to have (and be able to track over time periods that exceed those of individual grants moreeasily than would an individual PI) data on the demographic characteristics of those involved infunded projects. This led to the