The climate change educational partnership : climate change, engineered systems, and society : a report of three workshops / National Academy of Engineering ; Rachelle D. Hollander, Frazier F. Benya, Cameron H. Fletcher, editors.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Academy of Engineering, author.

Contributor:

National Academy of Engineering.

Hollander, Rachelle D., editor.

Benya, Frazier F., editor.

Fletcher, Cameron H., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in the environmental sciences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"In September 2010, the Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society at the National Academy of Engineering began working with four other partners on a Climate Change Educational Partnership Phase I planning grant from the National Science Foundation. The project focused on defining and characterizing the societal and pedagogical challenges posed by the interactions of climate change, engineered systems and society, and identifying the educational efforts that a network could use to enable engineers, teachers, students, policymakers, and the public to meet the challenges. The project also aimed to build awareness of the complexities among a diverse set of communities affected by climate change and engineered systems and to engage the communities in addressing these challenges. The Climate Change Educational Partnership is the summary of three workshops convened over the course of the grant on the interactions of climate change with engineered systems in society and the educational efforts needed to address them. The first workshop provided the partners with an introduction to the varied social and technical dimensions found in the relationships among climate, engineered systems, and society. The second workshop built on the common language developed in the first. It allowed the partners to expand involvement in the project to include representatives from community and tribal colleges, professional societies and business. It examined the opportunities and challenges for formal and informal education, particularly in engineering classrooms and science museums, to prepare students and citizens to address these issues. The third workshop allowed the partners to broaden further the discussion and the audience. It solicited participation from government officials, Native American tribal representatives, professional society leaders, as well as educators, artists, scientists, and engineers who are developing programs that can manage change and educate students and citizens in ways that foster their leadership skills."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""1 INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW""; ""2 INTERACTIONS: DEFINING THE PROBLEMS""; ""3 INTERVENTIONS: EXAMINING THE RANGE OF SOCIOTECHNICAL RESPONSES""; ""4 CROSS-CUTTING THEMES""; ""5 FORMAL EDUCATION INTERVENTIONS ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY""; ""6 INFORMAL EDUCATION ON CLIMATE, ENGINEERED SYSTEMS, AND SOCIETY""; ""7 PERSPECTIVES OF ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES, BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY, LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND NATIVE AMERICANS""; ""Appendix A: Workshop Agendas""; ""Appendix B: Participants Lists""

""Appendix C: Summary of Evaluations""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 11, 2014).

ISBN:

0-309-31278-7

0-309-31276-0

OCLC:

891384764