Tag: Equity-Centered Engineering
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M.A.R.S. Dialogues explore the ethics underpinning aerospace today and a spacefaring future
Students, faculty and staff discuss aerospace culture and challenge narratives that are often assumed to be true.
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U-M researchers aim to bring humans back into the loop, as AI use and misuse rises
The study aims to help society, including regulators considering AI safety regulations and organizations considering adopting AI, understand the societal implications of ever-smarter machines.
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Video: Creating Equity in Midwestern Flood Response and Recovery
A collaboration between engineers and experts from the U-M Center for Social Solutions to address inequity in flood recovery.
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Office of Culture, Community & Equity offers resources and services to enable DEI gains
The new office within Michigan Engineering will support faculty, staff and students in advancing people-first engineering.
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$1.2M toward a curriculum for equity-centered engineers
Michigan Engineering is creating a framework for teaching how social problems impact engineering—and how engineers can fight inequality.
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University of Michigan partners on multi-institution planning effort for state’s water future
Work for the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy will develop a policy roadmap to safe, low cost water services.
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New U-M robotics undergraduate program to meet surging demand for roboticists
An inclusive-by-design degree program centers on how an embodied intelligence senses, reasons, acts and works with humans to establish a pipeline of people-first roboticists.
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Former NSF director becomes first chair of Michigan Engineering’s Robotics Department
Dawn Tilbury to lead department after laying blueprint for convergent robotics research at the College a decade ago.
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5 challenging ideas for creating socially responsible engineers
Key takeaways and questions from a panel on the role universities and public policy can play in moving the field of engineering forward.
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Exoskeletons with personalize-your-own settings
Users who could adjust the timing, torque of an ankle exoskeleton typically found comfortable settings in under two minutes.
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Prof. Eniola-Adefeso on making engineering more equitable
Video excerpts from the “Inspiring Transformation” series.
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ECE alum Dave Babicz pioneered the lab kits that became a staple for at-home engineering courses
The lab kits used in our Analog Circuits course during the pandemic were created by Babicz, Director of Engineering at Analog Devices Inc., and fellow colleagues back in 2015 for the purpose of improving equity in engineering education.