Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Philip Dunn, University of Maine; Kenneth Nichols, University of Maine

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Engineering and Public Policy

administration and civil engineering fields are alwaysworking together in practice. Public administration professionals are decision makers whoprovide the long-term plan and vision for development within federal, state, and local levels. Asdecision makers, these professionals decide which projects are viable. Engineering professionalsdesign, analyze, and execute planned projects. These professionals take the vision to a realitythat ultimately the public uses and the public administration professional needs to maintain. Though public administration and engineering professionals work together, they oftenmisunderstand one another’s roles. The public administration professional works within a publicpolicymaking process and regulatory sphere that

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joseph Gillespie, Rowan University; Krishan Bhatia, Rowan University; William Riddell, Rowan University

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Engineering and Public Policy

and stipends, as well as summer salary forundergraduate students. Services rendered have included hosting symposia, wind and solarresource evaluation, energy audits, participation in grassroots efforts, as well as websitemaintenance. The strong belief that this program provides valuable services to the communityhas led to outstanding efforts on the part of the students.The clean energy projects have been an excellent way to address many of the ABET A-Kcriteria. These team-based, multidisciplinary projects have been especially effective at drivinghome the importance of environmentalism and the need for engineers to be leaders andcommunicators during policy discussions. The projects also reinforce and expand on coreacademic subjects through

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zarjon Baha, Purdue University; Bahawodin Baha, University of Brighton

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Engineering and Public Policy

Civil and Agricultural Engineering as well as the Dean of Engineering at that faculty before joining Purdue University. The Department of Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) was one of the five departments of the faculty as the first such department in the country. The main focus of VTE was to train teachers for the Vocational and Technical High Schools in the country. Since 2002, Prof. Z. Baha with other team members of Purdue University has made four trips to Afghanistan to help the country in the area of higher education. The latest project where Z. Baha served as the principal investigator was on Vocational and Technical Education for Afghanistan. There were two

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Michael Richey, The Boeing Company; Paul Newton, The Boeing Company; Rick Stephens, The Boeing Company; George Backus, Sandia National Labs; Barry McPherson, Boeing - Learning, Training & Development

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Engineering and Public Policy

International Business from ESC Lille, Graduate School of Management. He is currently working on a Masters of Science in Program & Project Management, focusing on Aerospace Engineering and Learning Science research. He often represents Boeing internationally and domestically as a presenter and has authored PLM integration patents primary relating to advanced aircraft construction, PLM-CAD-CAM metrology and Learning Science research.Paul Newton, The Boeing Company Paul Newton Operational Concept Analyst, Modeling and Simulation Group Strategic Projects & Analysis, Phantom Works The Boeing Company paul.c.newton2@boeing.com 206-544-7641 As an Operational Concept Analyst for

Conference Session

Teaching Engineering and Public Policy

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Cindy Orndoff, Florida Gulf Coast University

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Engineering and Public Policy

vine andvegetation growth on the walls of a structure to conserve energy by providing shade andinsulation. Green roofs can be traced through history, even to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon,and create a beautiful and natural space.Perhaps the most desirable and marketable attribute of green roofs is that they conserve heatingand cooling energy. The vegetated layer not only protects the roof from wind, frost, andmechanical damage (almost doubling the expected roof life), but it also acts as an excellentinsulation layer. Green roofs keep houses cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. Ascited on the “Livingroofs” website, a Nottingham Trent University research project found thatwith a mean daily temperature of 18.4° C, the temperature

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

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Engineering and Public Policy

that the full panoply ofinstitution types merit NSF support with attention given not only to their research productivity,but their actual or potential contribution to the national science and engineering workforce.One strategy NSF has employed to make progress toward its goal of reaching “all sources” hasbeen the requirement of each individual who applies for an NSF grant to address a BroaderImpacts Criterion in their proposal’s project summary. Inspired by a 2004 report by theCommittee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE) that encouraged NSFto both improve its methods of holding grantees accountable for their actions related to thebroader impacts criterion and provide guidelines for the Principal Investigators (PIs) to

Conference Session

Impacts of Public Policy on Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Norman Fortenberry, National Academy of Engineering; Kamyar Haghighi, Purdue University

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Engineering and Public Policy

, “Assessment and Active Learning Strategies for Introductory Geology Courses,” Journal of Geosciences Education 51 (2003), pp. 205-216.8. D.E. Stokes, Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation, Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997.10. N.L. Fortenberry, J.F. Sullivan, P.N. Jordan, and D.W. Knight, Engineering Education Research Aids Instruction, Science, vol. 317 (2007), pp. 1175-1176.11. D.W. Knight, L.E. Carlson, J.F. Sullivan, “Staying in Engineering: Impact of a Hands-On, Team-Based, First-Year Projects Course on Student Retention”, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition, Meeting held June 22-25, 2003, in Nashville, TN