Engineering and Public Policy offers a Ph.D. program that empowers students with technical backgrounds to address policy issues focused on science and technology.
If you want to explore how engineering interacts with other disciplines to tackle the complex problems of today’s society, EPP’s Ph.D. program might be right for you.
EPP’s research spans many areas of engineering and policy:
The Ph.D. program includes a series of core classes on fundamental approaches and methods for engineering and public policy, as well as classes in statistics and economics and electives in engineering, sciences, mathematics, and the social sciences. Research efforts begin early in the academic program with the first journal-quality research paper written during the third semester and continue through the development of subsequent papers and a Ph.D. thesis. While some work involves single investigators or small groups, much of it is conducted as part of the numerous research centers affiliated with the department.
EPP Ph.D. students...
- are engineers, scientists, and mathematicians adept in technical areas that affect issues nationally and internationally in the environment, energy, risk, regulation, information technology, internet security and privacy, telecommunications, education, technology development and exchange, or economic development.
- recognize that the technical details matter in many policy issues, and wish to obtain or enhance advanced disciplinary skills in engineering and science.
- understand that the technical details are not all that matters, and want to learn and apply knowledge and methods in the social and behavioral sciences, economics, political science, and law.