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This document is an adaptation of a presentation given at the RICE ADVANCE NSF Workshop on October 23, 2007. This information was compiled by Semahat Demir (NSF), Lydia Kavraki (CS), Rob Raphael (BIOE), and Joan Strassmann (EEB).
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Business
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Post-secondary
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Connexions
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Frameworks and Models for Technology and Policy students explore perspectives in the policy process -- agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, implementation and evaluation of policy outcomes using frameworks including economics and markets, law, and business and management. Methods include cost/benefit analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and system dynamics. Exercises for Technology and Policy students include developing skills to work on the interface between technology and societal issues; simulation exercises; case studies; and group projects that illustrate issues involving multiple stakeholders with different value structures, high levels of uncertainty, multiple levels of complexity; and value trade-offs that are characteristic of engineering systems. Emphasis on negotiation, team building and group dynamics, and management of multiple actors and leadership. This course explores perspectives in the policy process - agenda setting, problem definition, framing the terms of debate, formulation and analysis of options, implementation and evaluation of policy outcomes using frameworks including economics and markets, law, and business and management. Methods include cost/benefit analysis, probabilistic risk assessment, and system dynamics. Exercises include developing skills to work on the interface between technology and societal issues; simulation exercises; case studies; and group projects that illustrate issues involving multiple stakeholders with different value structures, high levels of uncertainty, multiple levels of complexity; and value trade-offs that are characteristic of engineering systems. Emphasis on negotiation, team building and group dynamics, and management of multiple actors and leadership.
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Science and Technology,
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Post-secondary
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Climate Change,
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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As part of an NSF-funded collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and science centers across the country to increase awareness of polar research and Earth's polar regions, join Donna Blackman, chair of the National Science Foundation's Ridge 2000 program, for an exciting excursion to the worldÅs mid-ocean ridge volcanic system. Learn how these oceanic spreading centers shape our Planet and support an amazing abundance of life in an otherwise inhospitable environment. (29 minutes)
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Science and Technology
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Secondary,
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Energy
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UCTV Teacher's Pet
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