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Content: Engineers intending to have a role in governance need to understand the public policy implications of engineering solutions. This module will be especially useful to students who selected CEGE0131 鈥淭ransport policy, governance and economics鈥� or STEP0025 鈥淪ustainable Infrastructure and Public Policy鈥� although the session on public policy from CEGE0120 鈥淚ntroduction to Complex Infrastructure Systems鈥� is sufficient preparation. This module explores the consequences of public policy interventions (such as subsidies, regulations) in an infrastructure system. The study could be a retrospective (evaluation) or prospective (assessment) investigation. It could be a review of existing case studies or if time and access to data allow then it could be a study a single site, scheme, or project. The module requires you to produce a technical report and a presentation on a topic from public policy relevant to a specific infrastructure system.

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Teaching delivery: This module is taught June to August and is supported through bi-weekly supervision.

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Indicative Topics:听 Example topics include:听 regulation, deregulation and unbundling, privatization, competition, policies and policy transfer, social equity such as affordability and accessibility. You will select an infrastructure system of interest to you which will be the context of your study. Example infrastructure systems include: autonomous transport; smart grid; sewage management; telecommunications for emergency response.

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Module Aims and/or Objectives:

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The aim of the module is to prepare engineers to understand the public policy context of engineered systems, and in particular how public policy can enable (and constrain) engineering practice, conceptualization, design, and operation of infrastructure systems. It will develop specific knowledge of a public policy in respect of an infrastructure system through extensive literature review and where possible empirical engagement with an infrastructure project or operations. The module will enable students to demonstrate their understanding of the processes, mechanisms, and techniques of public policy as it applies to a specific engineering project or operation. Students will develop both oral and written skills through their final report and presentation.

Recommended reading:

• A practical guide for policy analysis: the eightfold path to more effective problem solving听听 by Eugene Bardach; Eric M. Patashnik, 2020
• Qureshi, Z. (2016) SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: Meeting the Challenge of The Role of Public Policy, Global Economy and Development at Brookings.

Additional costs: There are no additional costs.

Learning Outcomes:

• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of how physical infrastructures and engineered systems operate within broader 鈥榮ystems of provision鈥� to provide essential services that are controlled by public policy and regulation
• Ability to explain how historical trajectories of infrastructure development have co-evolved with public policy and regulation for the particular infrastructure system of interest
• Ability to create an original application of knowledge, demonstrating a practical understanding of the use of established techniques of research and enquiry, by critiquing a public policy as it relates to a specific infrastructure project or system, and explaining how public policy and regulation control particular aspects of engineered infrastructure solutions.
• Capability to take a new perspective on knowledge that is not constrained to a single discipline yet implements a rigorous approach to creative thinking, developing knowledge, and implementing ideas.