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ESD Students Present Research

at the Technology, Management and Policy Graduate Consortium

August 8, 2008

Seven ESD-affiliated graduate students presented their research at the annual meeting of the Technology, Management and Policy Graduate Consortium, held this year in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from June 22-24. Six of the students were ESD or TPP students (ESD Ph.D. students Matt Richards (also PoET), Michel-Alexandre Cardin; TPP students Norma Campos, Alex Cosmas, Rebecca Weiss, and Jesse Sowell). The seventh was a Program on Emerging Technologies IGERT Trainee from the STS doctoral program (Michael Rossi). Frank Field also attended.

Norma Campos received the award for best presentation by a masters student.

Below are titles of the students’ research presentations.

Oral Presentations

  • Matt Richards: “Establishing the Timing, Specificity, and Scope of Standards”
  • Michel-Alexandre Cardin: “A Methodology for Identifying and Valuing Opportunities in Design and Management of Flexible Engineering Systems”
  • Norma Campos: “Strategies to Encourage Adoption of Data Link Communications and Improve Efficiency of Operations over theNorth Atlantic Airspace”
  • Michael Rossi: “Of Plasmids and Popular Politics – Biotech Regulation & Controversy”
  • Alex Cosmas: “Regulatory Liberalization in Air Transportation: Open Skies and Foreign Ownership”

Poster Presentations

  • Rebecca Weiss: “Eliciting Expertise with the Bayesian Truth Serum: Potential Applications for Science and Technology Policy Assessment”
  • Jesse Sowell: “A Sociotechnical Approach to Managing Supply Network Disruptions”

 

 

 

         
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