Workshop: Active Statements of Diversity in Engineering and Technical Courses, Part II

摘要

Continuing the fruitful conversation we began at ProComm 2017, we wish to look directly at how our syllabus, course policies, and communication promotes positive and thoughtful ways for including diversity, social justice, and ethics in engineering+technical classes (communication courses or otherwise). As we noted before, while there is a plethora of research and inquiry into STEM and diverse populations at the university level, we have found a dearth of solid, introspective, thoughtful advice on how to handle actual classroom/team and research lab interactions such that diversity is at the core of the working experience. Acknowledging power constructs that are necessarily part of college course, we want to provide examples and activities for participants to reconsider course structuring or policies that promote a pedagogy of positive and actively aware professionalism for students.