Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Charles James Larkin, Trinity College Dublin; Shaen Corbet, Dublin City University

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Engineering and Public Policy

of education [31] since personaldevelopment also addresses “being”, “agency” and “identity”; terms which are also oftenconfused. Without wanting to become someone else (ambition and or identity) there is nopurpose to the pursuit of knowledge and skill. “Becoming” is how we gain the experiencefrom which wisdom as it is commonly understood is derived through self-reflection. 2Academic courses tend to emphasise knowledge at the expense of as skill and rarely directlyaddress being [31].Yet knowledge, skill, and a sense of identity and agency are of little use in a world in whichrapid changes give knowledge and skill finite lifetimes. Thus a more important question maybe how does an educational organization ensure that graduating students are

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel B. Oerther, Missouri University of Science & Technology

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

ofEngineering Practice,” presented at the 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition [17] andan online discussion of, “Nursing Should be a STEM Discipline! Author Regards FlorenceNightingale as First Environmental Engineer,” which appeared in Reflections on NursingLeadership in February, 2018 [18].ResultsThe 2013 NAE report, “Messaging for Engineering: From Research to Action,” included anumber of calls to action [3]. Of great relevance to the members of ASEE was a call to include arecurring session on “messaging” at the annual ASEE conference and at the yearly EngineeringDeans Council Public Policy Colloquium. A search of the ASEE PEER document repositorywith the phrase, “changing the conversation,” identifies a total 214 publications from

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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Engineering and Public Policy

Fall 2016 semester, the combined enrollment of the four-yearand two-year institutions was over 175,000 students, in a state whose population isapproximately 5.8 million. [6]In his proposed 2015-17 biennial budget, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin proposed severalmeasures that directly impacted both the daily operations of the University of Wisconsin Systemas well as its long-term operations. The proposed changes reflected growing sentimentsthroughout parts of the United States questioning the value of higher education in its currentform, and the role that a state should play in providing public higher education. After modifyingthe proposed budget, the state legislature passed a 2015-17 budget which included cuts of $250million to the UW System

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Andrew Katz, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Donna M. Riley, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Engineering and Public Policy

identified - non-competitive markets, public goods, externalities, information asymmetries, and principal-agentproblems. In this section we review each of these five sources in turn, proceeding with a standarddefinition, examples, and implications for research and policy in engineering education. Some ofthe examples provided are more concrete than others. For each type of failure, we invite thereader to reflect on their own involvement in engineering education and consider examples fromtheir own experiences in engineering education in order to (a) to personalize the analysis and (b)help demonstrate the potential applicability of this approach.Public goods We first take up the notion of public goods, because prior to marketization, education

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Deanna H. Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University; H. Scott Matthews, Carnegie Mellon University

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Engineering and Public Policy

for that question (100% wouldmean a student selected only the correct boxes and none of the incorrect boxes), as well as thescores for the individual elements of a question (the percentage of students identifying one of theoptions as correct response, or not selecting an incorrect response). Few students were able to getall elements correct as reflected in the overall score, whereas certain elements were easilyidentified as the correct response.Table 1. Pre- and Post-Assessment Scores Question Pre-assessment percent correct Post-assessment percent correct Which of the following are examples 73% 83% of life cycle thinking? Which

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sarah Bouazzaoui, Old Dominion University; Charles B. Daniels, Old Dominion University

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Engineering and Public Policy

policyData indicated that most of the engineers are not involved in public decision making due to theirlack of knowledge related to this discipline. 9 Participants out of 13 mentioned that introducingengineering students to public policy concepts is important. One noted remark from Engineer 10who stated “I reflect for myself, Am I qualified enough to voice my concern? Lack of education Proceedings of the 2018 ASEE North Central Section Conference 4 Copyright © 2018, American Society for Engineering Educationwhen it comes to policy making. I have to ask two to three times of how can I bring this attentionwith comparing notes of the best way to bring my attention. It may be for those who are

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology

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Engineering and Public Policy

lack of collaborationbetween industries and schools and outstanding conflicts of structural demands and supplies.The current engineering education tend to enter an ivory tower, but the collaboration ofuniversities and enterprises in the quality construction of aspects including the curriculumsystem, faculty team and practice platform is still not close enough while the effect is also notsustained enough. The reform of the engineering education has not fully reflected thedevelopment demand of science & technology and economy in the new period. Meanwhile,the construction of platforms for inter-disciplines and newly-emerging disciplines are laggingbehind and there are a lack of synergy between the training of engineering talents and

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rohit Kandakatla, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Angela Goldenstein, Purdue University, West Lafayette; David Allen Evenhouse, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Edward J. Berger, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jeffrey F. Rhoads, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Jennifer Deboer, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Diversity

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Engineering and Public Policy

environment. MEERCatPurdue REDProject Data Collected Data Collected Freeform Department relationships and trust Faculty approaches to teaching Project Online resource usage tracking Faculty, staff and student climate Faculty role and identity Semi-structured interviews Focus group discussions Weekly instructor reflection Instructor practices and engagement Student self-efficacy survey