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| Carnegie Mellon University Department of Engineering and Public Policy Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Link to program page: http://www.epp.cmu.edu |
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Professor M. Granger Morgan, Department Head (412) 268-2672 Fax (412) 268-3757 E-mail: granger.morgan@andrew.cmu.edu |
Carnegie Mellon's program in Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) was founded in 1970 at the undergraduate level to provide engineering students with the skills to understand and deal with problems in technology and policy.
At the undergraduate level the department offers a double major for students in engineering and computer science and a minor in technology and policy for students in other fields. At the graduate level, the department offers a research-oriented PhD.
The first undergraduate EPP degree was conferred in 1973; EPP became a department in 1976 and was authorized to award Ph.D. degrees beginning in 1977. Since then, the department has granted over 600 double-major B.S. degrees, approximately 120 Ph.D. degrees, and approximately 25 terminal M.S. degrees.
Research in the department focuses on problems in energy and environmental
systems (including electric power, global change, green design, clean
energy, regional pollution, improving regulation); information technology
policy (including computer security, telephone over the internet, wireless,
software policy and industry structure); risk analysis and regulation;
R&D and management of innovation; and technology and economic development
(focusing in particular on India, China, and Brazil); and domestic security
aspects of engineered systems. It frequently undertakes the development
of new software tools for the support of policy analysis and research.
B.S. -- Double major degree between EPP and one of five
engineering departments and computer science
B.S. -- Minor in Technology and Policy for students not in engineering
or computer science
M.S. -- EPP and one of five engineering departments (joint degree)
M.S. -- Engineering and Public Policy
Ph.D. -- Engineering and Public Policy
The EPP graduate program is designed for candidates interested in pursuing
a research-oriented Ph.D. Students are encouraged to seek the M.S. degree
only if they plan to continue to the Ph.D. level. Full-time master's
students take approximately two years to complete the program; doctoral
students usually require a minimum of four years.
All graduate students must have completed an undergraduate or M.S. degree in engineering, a physical or mathematical science, or its equivalent. Good preparation in basic economics and probability and statistics is expected, as well as computer skills.
Students are expected to take at least 132 units beyond the B.S. degree to fulfill the requirements for a Ph.D. in EPP. This includes a minimum of 42 units in core research courses; 54 units in engineering, the sciences and applied mathematics, including a required course in probability and statistics; and 36 units in the social sciences and policy analysis, including a graduate level course in microeconomics.
The principal components of the EPP core curriculum are a four-course sequence on perspectives and tools for policy analysis and a teaching practicum. Course 19-701 is a lecture and discussion course that reviews and critically examines a set of problems, assumptions and analytical techniques that are common to research and policy analysis in technology and public policy. Course 19-702 provides a broad introduction to analytical and computational methods commonly used to address technical policy issues. 19-704 is a half-semester mini course that covers several statistical procedures; and 19-705, run in workshop-mode, provides instruction in structuring messy, unstructured problems. The teaching practicum involves one of two options: management of an interdisciplinary project course; or, conducting recitation sessions for the department's freshmen course "Introduction to Engineering and Public Policy".
To qualify for the Ph.D. degree, students must prepare and defend a
paper on an original research problem in technology and public policy
by the middle of their second year and successfully complete a take-home
exam on an unstructured problem in applied policy analysis. Within six
months after successfully qualifying, the student must prepare a thesis
proposal, usually on a topic within or related to one of the following
research areas of the department:
• energy and environmental systems;
• information and technology policy;
• risk analysis and regulation;
• R&D and management of innovation;
• technology and economic development;
• technology and international peace and security;
• quantitative tools for decision support and policy analysis.
A total of 43 graduate students are enrolled for the 2003-2004
academic year.
About 35 percent of them came with undergraduate degrees in mathematics
and the physical sciences; the remaining have degrees in engineering.
Approximately 21 percent of them came directly after receiving their
undergraduate degrees, 35 percent following other graduate study and
the balance following one to five (and in a few cases more than five)
years of work experience.
The faculty in EPP have engineering and social science backgrounds. In the 2003-04 academic year there are 40 faculty (including 12 research or other special faculty), 10 are affiliated faculty, 6 have full-time appointments in EPP, and 12 have joint appointments. CMU offers a unique environment in which interdisciplinary research is encouraged and joint appointments work. There are 20 adjunct faculty. The affiliated and adjunct faculty include professors from the following disciplines: business administration, engineering and applied sciences, and the social sciences. Current faculty research is focused on policy problems in energy and environmental systems; information and technology policy; risk analysis and regulation; R&D and management of innovation; technology and economic development (focusing in particular on India, China and Brazil); technology and international peace and security; and quantitative tools for decision support and policy analysis.
Most B.S. graduates from EPP pursue conventional engineering careers or go on to graduate school. Doctoral graduates are prepared for policy-oriented research careers in: research organizations, "think tanks" and government (~30 percent); industry (~20 percent); and academia (~50 percent).
The 2003-04 tuition for graduate students is $28,200 ($392 per course unit) and estimated living expenses are $19,200.
Thirty-nine of the 43 full-time graduate students enrolled in 2003-04
are fully supported, and 4 are either partially supported by the department
or self-supported.
