For cost-reducing technologies, knowing markets is to change them

Journal ArticleSponsored research from a NSF Foundation/Whitaker Foundation initiative on cost-reducing technologies brought together faculty from engineering, medicine, and social sciences to link economic and policy assessments to engineering design. The technology under development is to be an inexpensive, easy-to-use monitor for self-management of metabolic diseases by patients, with specific application to phenylketonuria (PKU). While the technology remains in development, the experience, including discussions with others in the Whitaker and National Science foundations' program, raised interesting issues about economics, policy, and cost-reducing technologies

State planning in Utah

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of City and Regional Planning, 1960.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-85).by Robert Paul Huefner.M.C.P

State planning in Utah

reportIn the fall of 1967, Ken Olson was considering the approach he would take in directing Utah's state planning program. The Governor had just appointed him State Planning Coordinator, to assume responsibility for the four year old program. Ken had earlier won the respect of the Governor and the previous planning coordinator because of his effectiveness as a state legislator, his reputation as an administrator in one of the state's largest school districts, and, most recently, his work as a member of the planning coordinator's staff. As a member of the Governor's personal staff, his opportunities as planning coordinator were especially dependent upon the Governor's future political fortune and administrative effectiveness. On both counts the prospects were favorable. While the Governor's first term would end in just 16 months, two terms were common in Utah and the Governor's exceptional popularity made a second four year term probable. The Governor also had proven to be one of the strongest and most effective administrators in the state's history. The planning program itself also enjoyed respect, adding to the opportunities of the position

No. 70, Robert P. Huefner, interview by Everett L. Cooley

Transcript (40, 38 pages) of two interviews by Everett L. Cooley with Robert P. Huefner, political science professor and former director of the Center for Public Affairs and Administration at the University of Utah, on July 16 and 25, 1985. This interview is no. 70 in the Everett L. Cooley Oral History Project, and tape nos. U-320 and U-321Huefner (b. 1936) recalls his schooling at the University of Utah, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University. He discusses his work with local, state, and national groups on planning and public administration projects; his tenure at the University of Utah in the Political Science Department, and as Director of the Institute of Government and Center for Public Administration, and University's administration, 1972-1985. Interviewer: Everett L. Coole