An article in the Spring 2023 edition of the Michigan Engineer , titled “How to Teach Engineering for Equity,” states that “in 2020, Michigan Engineering made a promise to address systemic racism in engineering.”
The article explains that the University of Michigan College of Engineering has set up a new Teaching Engineering Equity ( TEE ) Center, funded with $1.2 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF). It goes on to say that a team at the engineering school’s Center for Socially Engaged Design has been generating case studies documenting times when “social dynamics have affected engineering outcomes,” with a professor of higher education leading the development of a framework for professors and lecturers to use in modifying their courses.
It further states that a director of the Center for Learning and Teaching-Engineering will lead “teaching circles” to ensure that “students with marginalized identities feel included but not […]
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