| Title | Equity education in engineering: developing and implementing equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) content for the second-year mechanical engineering program |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Applied Science |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 1 Year |
| Initiation | 04/01/2020 |
| Completion | 05/01/2021 |
| Project Summary | An ability to apply equity in engineering practice is a critical professional competency. It is also one of the key learning outcomes required to be assessed in each program year for all engineering students by the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. Equity, or eliminating unfair biases that may limit full participation in one or more aspects of society, strongly relates to engineering design. Designing systems and devices that are meant for human use must involve considering who may be excluded by certain design choices made by the engineer. Despite these educational and accreditation-related needs, we currently do not have learning assessments related to equity in any year of our program. The goal of this project is to develop and deploy equity-related content and assessments for our second-year mechanical engineering program. After piloting, these materials would also be made available to the other engineering programs at UBCV and UBCO. |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2020/2021 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Small TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Agnes d'Entremont |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 16,735 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Agnes d'Entremont, Senior Instructor, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Applied Science |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Project Report | 2020-TLEF-Final-Report-DEntremont-WEB.pdf |