Delve into equity-focused teaching

Whether you’re exploring, implementing or refining, Michigan Engineering has the resources and guidance faculty and instructors need to educate a diverse, worldwide community.

DEI Case Study Initiative

The DEI Case Study Initiative develops original case studies for engineering courses that highlight the impact of engineering work on engineers and the broader society – based on real-world histories closely connected to any engineering subject.

  • C-SED partners with CoE faculty to conceptualize and implement DEI case studies for their undergraduate engineering courses.
  • The approach is designed to avoid “othering” DEI topics in engineering spaces and to help students recognize that equity and inclusion are integral to excellence in their academic and professional work as engineers.

Learn more about the DEI Case Study Initiative and get connected.

Teaching circles for developing DEI concepts

Work with experts and colleagues to determine how to best integrate DEI concepts into your classrooms. Teaching circles help faculty:

  • Utilize knowledge, tools and strategies to design and implement equity-centered engineering courses.
  • Examine scholarly literature, case studies, and other resources related to equity and inclusion in STEM education.
  • Purposefully reflect on how their own identities, beliefs and experiences affect their approach to teaching engineering.

New cohorts will start in May and Fall 2023. Faculty will receive a $1,000 stipend for their active participation.

Sign up for an upcoming teaching circle

Four panelists sitting at a long table looking a speaker at a podium.
Faculty panelists at the recent Engineering Education Innovation Days

Teaching and learning workshops for all levels

Equity-focused teaching sessions are offered regularly by U-M and Michigan Engineering  to support faculty, graduate students, post-docs, undergraduate instructional apprentices, staff and administrators. Explore options and register.

Tools & Strategies for your classroom

As you shift from theory to practice, we have resources for implementing these equity-focused teaching principles:

  • Purposeful engagement of difference
  • Structured interactions
  • Academic belonging
  • Transparency
  • Flexibility

Inclusive STEM Teaching MOOC

The Inclusive STEM Teaching Project is an NSF-funded, multi-institutional massive open online course (MOOC) created to advance inclusive teaching practice in highe+r education. Courses begin in March and October each year, and U-M CRLT hosts learning communities to complement online content.

Learn more about Inclusive STEM Teaching Project at Michigan.

The Teaching Engineering Equity Center is funded through the National Science Foundation’s Broadening Participation in Engineering Program, which aims to support the development of a diverse and prepared engineering workforce and build more inclusive and equitable academic experiences.