Stroumbakis, D. (2021, April), Public Interest in Technology: Enabling the Next-Gen Engineer with Project Management Skills for the Public  Sector - A Community College Case Study  Paper presented at Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference, Virtual . 10.18260/1-2--36314

\bibitem{asee_peer_36314}
  Stroumbakis, D. (2021, April), \emph{Public Interest in Technology: Enabling the Next-Gen Engineer with Project Management Skills for the Public  Sector - A Community College Case Study}
  Paper presented at Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference, Virtual .
  10.18260/1-2--36314

Dimitrios Stroumbakis PE.  "Public Interest in Technology: Enabling the Next-Gen Engineer with Project Management Skills for the Public  Sector - A Community College Case Study".  Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference, Virtual , 2021, April.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/36314 Internet.  14 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_36314}
  Dimitrios Stroumbakis PE.
  "Public Interest in Technology: Enabling the Next-Gen Engineer with Project Management Skills for the Public  Sector - A Community College Case Study".
  \emph{Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference, Virtual , 2021, April}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/36314 Internet.  14 May, 2024

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The purpose of this paper is to document our pedagogical approach for introducing the community college student to the important and growing field of applying their engineering skills for the good of the Public Interest, otherwise known as "Public Interest in Technology" (PIT). Founded by the Ford Foundation, the PIT initiative advocates the need for engineers and technologists to augment their professional skills to be explicitly concerned with issues of social, political, and general public good. With this in mind, we created a series of learning modules complete, with laboratory and field visit activities, to expose our students to the importance of Public Sector Service  (Construction, Municipalities, Non-Profit R&D sectors, etc.) in the area of Project Management and Technology Ethics.

Project management is a ubiquitous skill set imperative to both private and public sectors, but under used in most of the public sectors and services.
In this paper, we developed new subject matter to indoctrinate the student to Project Management (PM) training, consisting of 6 student-centered lecture modules and four laboratory & field visit modules, aligned for serving the public good.  The modules use a strong student-centered pedagogy and covers software scheduling tools, basics of schedule management, and use of critical-path methods. Laboratory case studies and field visits are varied according to the student learning objectives, ranging from case studies in under served communities to actual field visits with municipality assembly management, to visiting NYC’s ground zero public service providers in planning and construction. The field visits expose the student to experiential, authentic real-life learning by direct and observational participation with public works and services, helps build professional communication skills, and demonstrates need and value project management by seeking to offer training to select public sectors of various levels.





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