Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lianne Cartee, North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Clifford E. Griffin, North Carolina State University at Raleigh

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

Making in American Politics; Phase II—Decision Making in Engineering and Science;Phase III—Ethical Issues in Engineering and Policy. Interspersed throughout these three phaseswould be the laboratory component whereby students would meet with legislators and heads ofstate government agencies, such as transportation, environment and water, at the StateLegislative Building and government offices in surrounding areas.Phase IStudents were introduced to some of the fundamentals of the policy process from the socialscience perspective through an exploration of various decision-making models. We drew uponBrower and Abolafia’s “Bureaucratic Politics: The View from Below,” [1] which builds upon thesocial science gold standard—Graham Allison’s Conceptual

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jessica Centers, The MITRE Corporation; Michael A Balazs; Titilayo Ogunyale

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

Paper ID #42973Understanding Federal STEM Education InitiativesDr. Jessica Centers, The MITRE Corporation Jessica Centers is a communications engineer at the MITRE Corporation. She joined MITRE in 2023 after completing her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a focus on signal and information processing at Duke University. Upon beginning her role at MITRE, she also completed her Master of Arts in Technology Ethics and Science Policy. Prior to graduate school, she received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Milwaukee School of Engineering in 2018. She currently splits her time between STEM workforce and

Conference Session

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP) Technical Session 1

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Trina L. Fletcher, Florida International University; Simone Nicholson, Florida International University; Christopher Alexander Carr, George Mason University; Tina Fletcher; Brittany Boyd

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Engineering and Public Policy Division (EPP)

takes his ethical stances into conversations around tough issues to make sure all voices are included. In his professional life, Carr has convened numerous diversity leadership forums in STEM education – bringing together over 100 deans and diversity administrators to talk about underrepresented students persistence, diverse faculty recruitment, and creating inclusive campus climates. Carr has also been a champion for access to opportunities for those from historically oppressed groups. He worked to see outreach efforts exponentially expand to Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic Serving Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities. His efforts transformed the way the National Science