ET 3800J - Engineering and Technology Public Policy

• Become aware of the power struggle that exists among the players in any specific public policy.
• Become aware of the international factors that influence policy-making.
• To be able to provide examples of who their legislators rely upon for guidance in technical policy issues.
• To be able to write a letter to your public officials.
• To become familiar with a few of the basic ethical frameworks for such as utilitarian and deontological approaches and how these ethical frameworks influence public policy.
• To become familiar with administrative law and how it can impact/challenge engineering and technology regulation.
• To become familiar with how Congress oversees policy implementation.
• To become familiar with how interest groups are formed.
• To become familiar with the factors a politician uses to decide whether to support an agenda/policy.
• To become familiar with the laws that regulate how individuals can try to influence public officials.
• To become familiar with the laws that regulates interest groups.
• To become familiar with the separation of powers in (legislative executive judicial) in state government impacts public policy.
• To cite examples of how interest groups affect policy formation.
• To find examples of metropolitan regulatory agencies as they relate to your discipline.
• To find possible ways that you maybe able to influence your political representatives.
• To find ways that implementation of a law varied due to interpretation of language in a law.
• To understand how public policy emerges in from government.
• To understand how to access you political representatives and gain their support.