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  • 19 325: Special Topics: Public Policy Writing

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Writing for sophisticated general audiences is always challenging for engineers and scientists; even the most compelling research can be persuasive only if its audience understands it. This course is designed for juniors and seniors who want to learn the fundamentals of accurate, persuasive writing for professional and policy audiences. Readings will include selections from a basic style reference guide, along with more and less successful examples of technology-related policy writing. Course work will include translating technical papers into accessible prose and creating compelling visual presentations of technical information. Students will work in interdisciplinary teams as much as class demographics allow. This course is not recommended for those who are not fluent in English.
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  • 19 350: SP TP: Research Methods & Statistics for Engineering & Public Policy Analysis

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course synthesizes concepts from economics, statistics, decision analysis, and other humanities and social science areas as they relate to analysis of technology and public policy issues. Students will focus on applying skills, tools, and techniques of social science to critically examine issues of current importance to society that have engineering systems at the core, and how public policy can be informed by the results of these analyses. Students will discover the relationship between formulating research questions considering a wide range of perspectives (e.g., political, ethical, social, economic, and legal aspects) and implementing the appropriate methods for answering them. The course will emphasize interpretation and communication of analysis results in written and oral presentation, especially to non-technical audiences. As a precursor to the EPP Project courses, the course also prepares EPP juniors for structuring real-world problems into a feasible work plan, and to deal with revising work plans as work proceeds.
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  • 19 402: Telecommunications, Technology Policy & Management

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course provides a comprehensive introduction to basic principles of telecommunications technology and the legal, economic, and regulatory environment of the telecommunications industry. Topics covered are: role of new technologies such as fiber, wireless, voice over packet, and broadband access; principles behind telecommunications regulation from common carrier law and natural monopoly to open access and interconnection; differences in the treatment of telecommunications versus information services. Also, mergers, antitrust, and the changing industrial structure of telecommunications; spectrum allocation and management; and international comparison of telecommunications regulations. Special emphasis on how the new technologies have altered and are altered by regulation.
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  • 19 403: Policies of Wireless Systems and the Internet

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will address public policy issues related to wireless systems, and to the Internet. It begins by investigating policies related to a wide variety of emerging wireless systems and technologies, including wifi computer networks, broadband to the home, broadcast radio and television, and satellite communications. This can include the government role in facilitating the creation of infrastructure, in advancing competition among broadcasters and communications service providers, in managing spectrum, and in protecting privacy and security. The course will then address Internet policy issues, which can include Internet governance and the domain name system, taxation, privacy and security, and intellectual property. Because these are inherently interdisciplinary issues, the course will include detailed discussions of technology, economics, and law, with no prerequisites in any of these areas.
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  • 19 405: Risk Perception and Communication

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

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  • 19 424: Energy and the Environment

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course will explore the relationships between environmental impacts and the utilization of energy through a series of case studies on topics of current interest. Such topics might include the use of renewable and non-renewable fuels for electric power generation; energy use for automobiles and other transportation systems; energy use for buildings and industrial processes; and environmental issues such as urban air pollution, ozone formation, acid rain, and global warming. The emphasis will be on analysis of energy-environmental interactions and tradeoffs, and their dependency upon engineering design choices, economic variables, and public policy parameters.
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  • 19 431: Technology and Security

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    The course examines the impact of high technology on national and international security from three different perspectives: Military impact, the relevance of technology in various regional conflicts; impact of defense policy; and, the proliferation of high technology in the third world, the spread and diffusion processes of military high-technology in the third world and its impact on security and international relations. As the course is intended to be useful to students in international relations and security, it is not taught as a heavily technical course. The emphasis is on policy.
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  • 19 440: Combustion and Air Pollution Control

    9.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Formation and control of gaseous and particulate air pollutants in combustion systems. Basic principles of combustion, including thermochemical equilibrium, flame temperature, chemical kinetics, hydrocarbon chemistry, and flame structure. Formation of gaseous and particulate pollutants in combustion systems. Combustion modifications and postcombustion technologies for pollutant control. Relationship between technology and regional, national, and global air pollution control strategies. The internal combustion engine and coal-fired utility boiler are used as examples.
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  • 19 441: Special Topics: Global Entrepreneurship and the Future of Advanced Manufacturing

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    This course teaches students a strategic toolset with which to quantify the economic viability of emerging technologies as well as the strategic implications of manufacturing location decisions. Topics covered will include basic accounting and production economics, operations management, simulation modeling of design and production, qualitative interview methods, and state-of-the art knowledge on offshoring and outsourcing. Students will apply topics learned to a semester-long project on a real-world emerging technology being developed by a start-up company, and identified as a strategic technology for national competitiveness. Students will model the production economics of the emerging technology, the economics of offshoring or outsourcing that technology, and then compare those economics to the reasons stated (in interviews) by emerging firms in that technology for why they chose to manufacture in the United States versus move offshore. The term-long projects will be conducted with support from the Science and Technology Policy Institute ? the source of objective technical advice for the Executive Branch of the U.S. Government, and may be used to inform future technology and manufacturing policy in the United States, as well as other nations.
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  • 19 451: EPP Projects

    12.00 Credits
    Carnegie Mellon University

    Interdisciplinary problem-solving projects in which students work as leaders or members of project teams. Problem areas are abstracted from local, state and national situations and involve the interaction of technology and public policy, with different projects being chosen each semester. Oral and written presentations concerning the results of project studies are required.
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