Conference Session

Aspects of Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William Roper, George Mason University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

AC 2010-2228: GREEN TOURISM PROJECT AS PART OF SMART URBANGROWTH CLASSWilliam Roper, George Mason University Dr. Roper is a professor at George Mason University. He is a Founding Director & President of Rivers of the World Foundation and a Sr. Advisor to the consulting firm of Dawson & Associates. He joined George Mason after serving as Professor and Chairman of the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering at George Washington University. During that time he also served as Sr. Science and Technology Advisor to the NGA. Prior to this position he was the director of the U.S. Army Geospatial Center in Alexandria, VA and earlier Dir. of the Corps of Engineers world-wide civil

Conference Session

Aspects of Public Policy in Engineering Education

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pringle, Central Washington University; William Bender, Central Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy

through Thursday spring quarter 2009. Classes have been modified tofit this schedule, staff will be in the building for extended hours M-Th and the computer lab willcontinue to be open M-Th until 11PM and Sunday from 3PM to 11PM. The departmentunderstands that there is a potential that this modified schedule may impact students ability toaccess certain laboratories. Faculty and staff encourage students to work within these modifiedparameters by modifying their behaviors and plan out intended laboratory work to avoid lastminute crunches. As in industry constraints are a fact of life. “Staff worked four days a weekand only faculty had access to the building on Fridays.The spring schedule modification was a pilot project. Potentially, the modified

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

In this writing course, undergraduate engineering and technology students will learnabout the legislative, regulatory, and policy-making processes that will frame developing andexisting technologies. Course content includes the theory, structure, and function ofgovernment as relates to engineering and technology public policy at the state and federallevel. The course also includes a writing intensive, project-based learning component in whichthe student will have the opportunity to evaluate energy, bio-medical, or other engineering andtechnology public policy from the standpoint of usage, regulation, environmental and societalimpact of the technology, economic analysis, the public perception of the technology, and thepredictions for the