Humanizing Engineering: Evolving the Status Quo
Friday, March 29 • 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Join us in person at the Natural Resources Building, Room 345.
We will provide a catered lunch
available at 11:30 a.m. - session will begin at noon.
In this interactive workshop, we will explore how engineering faculty can shift toward using a sociotechnical lens when teaching engineering curricula (humanizing engineering within the boundaries of current culture). The session will challenge faculty and staff to consider their own positionality and reflect upon how they have experienced and/or engaged with engineering’s exclusionary culture in the past.
The ENgage series features seminars and workshops to enhance the visibility of diverse scholars, scientists, engineers, and educators working on equity and inclusion.
Goals of the ENgage series
The series has been created in part to prepare students for engineering and scientific professions where diversity is valued and inclusion is expected. Incidences of racial violence and social injustice across the country – and at CSU – have only heightened this need.
Students, faculty, and staff are encouraged to advance their knowledge of diversity, equity, and inclusion and to learn actions they can take to co-create an inclusive and equitable college community.
The series will feature leaders who can speak to issues of systemic racism and social justice, and steps we can take to change this system; educate students, staff, and faculty; and co-create a more inclusive community.
Enhance the visibility of diverse scholars, scientists, engineers, and educators working on equity and inclusion.
Promote and advance a culture of inclusiveness within the College.
Develop cultural competency of all students, staff, and faculty.
Fall Semester Events
Previous events
Current CSU login for Microsoft Office and/or CSU eID is required.
Breaking Barriers: A survey of successful DEI initiatives in engineering
Terri D. Wright, Ph.D., College of Engineering and Applied Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Melissa Burt, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Ken Reardon, Professor and Jud and Pat Harper Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering; April 2021
Inclusive and Equitable Interviews
October 31, 2023
Inclusive and Equitable Search Processes
November 14, 2023
Melissa Burt, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Emily Fischer, Associate Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering, Colorado State University, November 4, 2019
Improving Workplace Climate by Preventing and Responding to Harassment
March 29, 2023
Integrating Social Justice and Engineering: The Missing (and Perhaps Most Important) Link to Make Engineering Diverse and Inclusive
Juan Lucena Professor, Engineering Design & Society Co-Director, Humanitarian Engineering Colorado School of Mines
March 31, 2022
Special Seminar: A conversation on best practices for incorporating equity, inclusion, and justice in engineering
Karen Butler-Purry, Graduate Dean, Texas A&M
April 4, 2022
Jennifer Pfeiffer, Global Director of Operations, Industrial Intermediates and Infrastructure, Dow Incorporated
Kendy Hall, Senior Systems Engineer
Raytheon Technologies
LaKendre’a Moore, Director of Quality - Engine Systems
Woodward, Inc.
Drew Crouch, Former Vice President, Ball Aerospace
Director of Strategic Initiatives,
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
It’s not only technical skills: How engineers thrive through communication, empathy, and equity
March 4, 2022
Liberating Learning: Social Justice in the Engineering Curriculum
Donna Riley, Professor, Head of School of Engineering Education, Purdue University
September 23, 2021
Melissa Burt, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Rickey Frierson, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Programs for the Warner College of Natural Resources at Colorado State University, September 13, 2019.
Melissa Burt, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and Rickey Frierson, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Programs for the Warner College of Natural Resources
Wednesday, April 7, 2021
REDEFINE Engineering Education: Disrupting Systemic Barriers to Equity and Inclusion
Yvette E. Pearson, Associate Dean for Accreditation, Assessment, and Strategic Initiatives in the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University and Founder of The Pearson Evaluation and Education Research Group
December 3, 2020
Faculty/Staff workshop: Co-creating an inclusive WSCOE with Affinity Arts
Friday, January 15, 2021