Added: 04/11/2006 |
What do government relations programs do?For the best understanding of the matter, here are some topics of the government relations programs:
- An Engineering and the Congress program. The Engineering and the Congress program serves to inform the Congressional staff about engineering, science and technology aspects of current public policy issues. In the format of briefing, public relations specialists examine a broad set of topics with a distinguished speaker or a panel of speakers presenting to attendees. Speakers would include representatives from the industry, academia and government.
- A Federal Government Fellowships program. This program was established by the ASME International engineering society. Since its inception, other engineering and scientific societies have used the ASME's program as a model in developing their own federal government fellow programs. The program enables participants to devote a year working in the government, providing engineering and technical advice to policy makers in the Congress, federal agencies and the White House. Federal Government Fellowships provide a valuable public service to the nation, while at the same time providing engineers with a unique opportunity to participate directly in the policy making process. There are three types of fellowships available: congressional, white house and federal agency.
Among the other government relations programs, the following programs are stood out: a State Action Program grants an opportunity for groups to participate in the society's state government relations activities. The program supports initiatives of sections, regions and student sections among the others to pursue public policy interests with state governments.
A Washington Visitation Program provides an opportunity to actively participate in the society's government relations activities. The program enables Councils, Boards, Technical Divisions, Committees and Task Forces to pursue their government relations interests and thereby contribute to the society's public policy agenda. This program can help all concerned about public policy issues, such as an energy policy, a global climate change, a government funding for research and development, or science, technology, engineering and mathematics K-12 education.
Government relations programs also help students and postgraduates get more acquainted with government affairs. Each year, outstanding engineering students are selected to spend nine weeks in a special summer program in Washington, D.C. to learn how government officials make decisions on complex technological issues and how engineers can contribute to legislative and regulatory public policy decisions.
The WISE Program is ranked as one of the best Internship opportunities in the U.S by the newspaper "Princeton Review". The WISE Program was founded in 1980 through the collaborative efforts of several professional engineering societies, the Washington Internships for Students of Engineering has become one of the premier Washington internship programs. Its goal is to groom future leaders of the engineering profession, who are aware of and can contribute to the important intersections of technology and public policy. Government relations programs sometimes are closely tied with high tech PR, serving audio-video, biomedical, computer hardware, computer software, consumer electronics, electronics, telecommunications and Internet industries, speech recognitions and voice technologies.
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