TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Engineering TI - Infusing Ethics into the Development of Engineers: Exemplary Education Activities and Programs SN - DO - 10.17226/21889 PY - 2016 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21889/infusing-ethics-into-the-development-of-engineers-exemplary-education-activities PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology KW - Education AB - Ethical practice in engineering is critical for ensuring public trust in the field and in its practitioners, especially as engineers increasingly tackle international and socially complex problems that combine technical and ethical challenges. This report aims to raise awareness of the variety of exceptional programs and strategies for improving engineers' understanding of ethical and social issues and provides a resource for those who seek to improve ethical development of engineers at their own institutions. This publication presents 25 activities and programs that are exemplary in their approach to infusing ethics into the development of engineering students. It is intended to serve as a resource for institutions of higher education seeking to enhance their efforts in this area. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Year Three Annual Report of Activities DO - 10.17226/26741 PY - 2022 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26741/action-collaborative-on-preventing-sexual-harassment-in-higher-education-year PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Education AB - The Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education is an initiative where over 55 colleges, universities, and other research and training organizations are identifying, researching, developing, and implementing efforts that move beyond basic legal compliance to evidence-based policies and practices for addressing and preventing all forms of sexual harassment and promoting a campus climate of civility and respect. The Partner Network of the Action Collaborative provides an additional opportunity for collective sharing across colleges and universities, research entities, higher education associations, grassroots and non-profit organizations, federal agencies, national laboratories, industry, and other stakeholder organizations. This annual report for 2021-2022 highlights the overall progress of the Action Collaborative toward its goals and summarizes the work shared by member and partner network organizations during the third year of the collaborative. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Year Two Annual Report of Activities DO - 10.17226/26339 PY - 2021 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/26339/action-collaborative-on-preventing-sexual-harassment-in-higher-education-year PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Education AB - The Action Collaborative's Year 2 Annual Report summarizes the Action Collaborative's collective progress in the 2020-2021 year, identifies areas for future focus, discusses trends in organizations' reported areas of work, and highlights work shared by member organizations and partner network organizations. A complete collection of "descriptions of work" authored by member and partner network organizations is available in the repository. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Engineering A2 - Carl Anderson TI - Overcoming Challenges to Infusing Ethics into the Development of Engineers: Proceedings of a Workshop SN - DO - 10.17226/24821 PY - 2017 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24821/overcoming-challenges-to-infusing-ethics-into-the-development-of-engineers PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology AB - On January 11–12, 2017, the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for Engineering Ethics and Society (CEES) held a workshop designed to help the engineering community identify institutional and cultural challenges to instilling ethics in engineering programs and to develop approaches, programs, strategies, and collaborations to overcome those challenges. The workshop was a follow-on activity to the 2016 CEES report Infusing Ethics into the Development of Engineers: Exemplary Education Activities and Programs. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK TI - PY - UR - PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Engineering A2 - Steve Olson TI - Engineering Societies and Undergraduate Engineering Education: Proceedings of a Workshop SN - DO - 10.17226/24878 PY - 2017 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/24878/engineering-societies-and-undergraduate-engineering-education-proceedings-of-a-workshop PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology AB - Engineering professional societies in the United States are engaged in a wide range of activities involving undergraduate education. However, these activities generally are not coordinated and have not been assessed in such a way that information about their procedures and outcomes can be shared. Nor have they been assessed to determine whether they are optimally configured to mesh with corresponding initiatives undertaken by industry and academia. Engineering societies work largely independently on undergraduate education, leaving open the question of how much more effective their efforts could be if they worked more collaboratively—with each other as well as with academia and industry. To explore the potential for enhancing societies’ role at the undergraduate level, the National Academy of Engineering held a workshop on the engagement of engineering societies in undergraduate engineering education. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine A2 - Stephanie Ward A2 - Courtney Beard A2 - Sondra Retzlaff A2 - Maria Muia A2 - Paul Snyder A2 - Leslie Martin A2 - Kim Kenville A2 - Dave Gordon TI - Developing Innovative Strategies for Aviation Education and Participation DO - 10.17226/25528 PY - 2019 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/25528/developing-innovative-strategies-for-aviation-education-and-participation PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - Resources to help promote interest in aviation among younger populations ranging from 10 years old to 25 years old are detailed in TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 202.The report is designed to help educators and aviation enthusiasts understand the need for encouraging interest in aviation. It offers guidance on developing a program of activities to fit particular needs and provides activities for developing a program that can be scaled and tailored for various age groups and resource availability.The report is designed to help develop intentional pathways for promoting interest in aviation. These pathways are seen as the process for engaging students at an early age to pursue aviation at some level and then have them, in turn, continue the cycle by promoting aviation to others.The report addresses the challenges to establishing and maintaining these pathways—such as resource limitations, lack of programming or curriculum, competing interests for kids, and administrative or organizational issues—and identifies opportunities to overcome them.The report also provides support for developing and executing single events and activities when they are the most practical means for exposing young people to the aviation industry. Finally, the report includes three summary listings of the landing pages. The landing pages are a collection of activities that can engage young people in aviation and be adapted to any particular group or organization. They are sorted by activity type, target age group, and cost per person. A searchable list, by keyword, of these landing pages can be found in the Presorted Tables PDF.There is also an individual activity landing pages PDF, which is an alphabetical listing of organizations and the types of activities they offer. The PDF User Guide explains how to use and search the PDFs. A microsite with the Presorted Tables PDF, the Individual Activity Landing Pages PDF, and the PDF User Guide may be found at http://www.trb.org/acrp/acrpreport202.aspx. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - Helen R. Quinn A2 - Heidi A. Schweingruber A2 - Michael A. Feder TI - NASA's Elementary and Secondary Education Program: Review and Critique SN - DO - 10.17226/12081 PY - 2008 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12081/nasas-elementary-and-secondary-education-program-review-and-critique PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Education AB - The federal role in precollege science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education is receiving increasing attention in light of the need to support public understanding of science and to develop a strong scientific and technical workforce in a competitive global economy. Federal science agencies, such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), are being looked to as a resource for enhancing precollege STEM education and bringing more young people to scientific and technical careers. For NASA and other federal science agencies, concerns about workforce and public understanding of science also have an immediate local dimension. The agency faces an aerospace workforce skewed toward those close to retirement and job recruitment competition for those with science and engineering degrees. In addition, public support for the agency's missions stems in part from public understanding of the importance of the agency's contributions in science, engineering, and space exploration. In the NASA authorization act of 2005 (P.L. 109-555 Subtitle B-Education, Sec. 614) Congress directed the agency to support a review and evaluation of its precollege education program to be carried out by the National Research Council (NRC). NASA's Elementary and Secondary Education Program: Review and Critique includes recommendations to improve the effectiveness of the program and addresses these four tasks: 1. an evaluation of the effectiveness of the overall program in meeting its defined goals and objectives; 2. an assessment of the quality and educational effectiveness of the major components of the program, including an evaluation of the adequacy of assessment metrics and data collection requirements available for determining the effectiveness of individual projects; 3. an evaluation of the funding priorities in the program, including a review of the funding level and trend for each major component of the program and an assessment of whether the resources made available are consistent with meeting identified goals and priorities; and 4. a determination of the extent and effectiveness of coordination and collaboration between NASA and other federal agencies that sponsor science, technology, and mathematics education activities. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - The National Science Foundation's Materials Research Science and Engineering Centers Program: Looking Back, Moving Forward SN - DO - 10.17226/11966 PY - 2007 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/11966/the-national-science-foundations-materials-research-science-and-engineering-centers-program PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - The Oil Spill Recovery Institute: Past, Present, and Future Directions SN - DO - 10.17226/10643 PY - 2003 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/10643/the-oil-spill-recovery-institute-past-present-and-future-directions PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Environment and Environmental Studies KW - Earth Sciences AB - As a result of the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Congress passed the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA 90), and within that legislation, the Oil Spill Recovery Institute (OSRI) was born. This report assesses the strength and weaknesses of this research program, with emphasis on whether the activities supported to date address the OSRI mission, whether the processes used are sound, and whether the research and technology development projects are of high quality ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Reducing Litter on Roadsides DO - 10.17226/14250 PY - 2009 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14250/reducing-litter-on-roadsides PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis 394: Reducing Litter on Roadsides explores the state of the practice in reducing roadside litter as it involves state departments of transportation (DOTs). The report provides information concerning the prevention and removal of roadside litter, unfulfilled needs, knowledge gaps, and underperforming activities. It covers enforcement, education, awareness, and engineering methods for both litter prevention and collection. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Transportation Research Board AU - National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine TI - Representing Freight in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Models DO - 10.17226/14407 PY - 2010 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/14407/representing-freight-in-air-quality-and-greenhouse-gas-models PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Transportation and Infrastructure AB - TRB’s National Freight Cooperative Research Program (NFCRP) Report 4: Representing Freight in Air Quality and Greenhouse Gas Models explores the current methods used to generate air emissions information from all freight transportation activities and their suitability for purposes such as health and climate risk assessments, prioritization of emission reduction activities, and public education.The report highlights the state of the practice, and potential gaps, strengths, and limitations of current emissions data estimates and methods. The report also examines a conceptual model that offers a comprehensive representation of freight activity by all transportation modes and relationships between modes. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Academy of Engineering TI - Academe/industry/government: Interaction in Engineering Education : a Symposium at the Sixteenth Annual Meeting, October 30, 1980, Washington, D.C. DO - 10.17226/19740 PY - 1981 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19740/academeindustrygovernment-interaction-in-engineering-education-a-symposium-at-the-sixteenth PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Education ER - TY - BOOK A2 - D. Allan Bromley A2 - Pierre M. Perrolle TI - Nuclear Science in China DO - 10.17226/19808 PY - 1980 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19808/nuclear-science-in-china PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Environment and Environmental Studies ER - TY - BOOK TI - Program Evaluation in Education: When? How? to What Ends? DO - 10.17226/19657 PY - 1981 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/19657/program-evaluation-in-education-when-how-to-what-ends PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Health and Medicine ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council A2 - John W. Farrington A2 - Michael A. Feder TI - NOAA's Education Program: Review and Critique SN - DO - 10.17226/12867 PY - 2010 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/12867/noaas-education-program-review-and-critique PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences KW - Education AB - There is a national need to educate the public about the ocean, coastal resources, atmosphere and climate. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the agency responsible for understanding and predicting changes in the Earth's environment and conserving and managing coastal and marine resources to meet the nation's economic, social and environmental needs, has a broad mandate to engage and coordinate education initiatives on these topics. Since its creation in 1970, the NOAA has supported a variety of education projects that cover a range of topics related to the agency's scientific and stewardship mission. NOAA uses formal and informal learning environments to enhance understanding of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and to advance environmental education. The work of this agency overlaps and compliments the missions of other federal agencies, institutions of higher education, private and nonprofit organizations. Coordination among these agencies and organizations has been challenging. Limited education resources and the inherently global nature of NOAA's mission make strategic partnerships critical in order for the agency to accomplish its goals. Additionally, clear education goals, planning, and strategic use of resources are critical aspects for effective partnerships. NOAA's Education Program: Review and Critique provides a summary of the national education context for NOAA's role in education which is twofold: first is to advance the environmental literacy of the nation, and second is to promote a diverse workforce in ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, atmospheric and climate sciences. The book also describes the strengths and weaknesses of the education strategic plan, the education evaluation approach of the agency and strategies for improving the evaluation process. ER - TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Learning From Japan: Improving Knowledge of Japanese Technology Management Practices DO - 10.17226/18453 PY - 1994 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/18453/learning-from-japan-improving-knowledge-of-japanese-technology-management-practices PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Engineering and Technology AB - The U.S.-Japan Industry and Technology Management Training Program provides the opportunity for U.S. academics to broaden and deepen their understanding of the multifaceted sources of Japanese industrial success and to convey that understanding to practitioners in U.S. industry and government laboratories. After reviewing the program's progress, Learning From Japan: Improving Knowledge of Japanese Technology Management Practices concludes that a multidisciplinary approach to research, education, and training must be used, and an aggressive effort must be made to disseminate the results to industry. Building a multidisciplinary specialization would provide a framework for research, publications, curriculum development, and continuing education activities. Yet, making this specialization as relevant and useful as possible would require input from industry, and industry must, in turn, be convinced of the value of the program. Learning From Japan recommends that achieving these twin goals—creating a strong academic specialization and ensuring its relevance to the needs of U.S. industry—should guide the future management of the program. ER - TY - BOOK AU - Institute of Medicine TI - Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption SN - DO - 10.17226/6163 PY - 1998 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/6163/ensuring-safe-food-from-production-to-consumption PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Food and Nutrition AB - How safe is our food supply? Each year the media report what appears to be growing concern related to illness caused by the food consumed by Americans. These food borne illnesses are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, pesticide residues, and food additives. Recent actions taken at the federal, state, and local levels in response to the increase in reported incidences of food borne illnesses point to the need to evaluate the food safety system in the United States. This book assesses the effectiveness of the current food safety system and provides recommendations on changes needed to ensure an effective science-based food safety system. Ensuring Safe Food discusses such important issues as: What are the primary hazards associated with the food supply? What gaps exist in the current system for ensuring a safe food supply? What effects do trends in food consumption have on food safety? What is the impact of food preparation and handling practices in the home, in food services, or in production operations on the risk of food borne illnesses? What organizational changes in responsibility or oversight could be made to increase the effectiveness of the food safety system in the United States? Current concerns associated with microbiological, chemical, and physical hazards in the food supply are discussed. The book also considers how changes in technology and food processing might introduce new risks. Recommendations are made on steps for developing a coordinated, unified system for food safety. The book also highlights areas that need additional study. Ensuring Safe Food will be important for policymakers, food trade professionals, food producers, food processors, food researchers, public health professionals, and consumers. ER - TY - BOOK TI - A Review of the NOAA National Sea Grant College Program DO - 10.17226/9292 PY - 1994 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/9292/a-review-of-the-noaa-national-sea-grant-college-program PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Earth Sciences ER - TY - BOOK TI - Final Report of the Committee on Basic Research in Education DO - 10.17226/21336 PY - 1972 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/21336/final-report-of-the-committee-on-basic-research-in-education PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - KW - Health and Medicine ER -