You are invited to join the College of Engineering for the first Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Day of Community: Growing, Learning and Celebrating Together on Friday, May 13, 2022. This event is an opportunity to learn and share accomplishments and best practices for integrating justice, equity, diversity and inclusion into our daily lives as students, scholars, teachers and staff.
May 13, 2022 • 9 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the ATL
Register for these free events here.
| 9:00 | Welcome and keynote address | Beena Ammanath, Global Head of Deloitte AI Institute, Tech & AI Ethics Lead @Deloitte | Mindful Engineering: Building Technology for a Better World | |
| 10:00 | Workshop | Dr. Ben Lutz, ME | Integrating Social Justice into Engineering Courses using Problem Redesigns | |
| 10:30 | Lightning Talk | Katie McGuire, University advising | A Look at Student Retention | |
| 10:45 | Lightning Talk | Sara Entezarmahdi, PROVE lab + Nayana Tiwari, WISH | Title1: Integrating JEDI Conversations into Technical Engineering Clubs, Title2: Intersectional club events | |
| 11:00 | Workshop | Evelyn Chavez, VP of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of Cal Poly SWE | Outreach in our Community | |
| 11:30 | Workshop | Dr. Dianne DeTurris, AERO | The Systems Perspective Workshop (covers the concepts of big picture thinking to allow us to see interrelationships so that we can work more effectively) | |
| 12:00 | Break for Lunch | |||
| 12:30 | Workshop | Dr. Jane Lehr, Michael Reyna, Luka Uchiyama, Victoria Siaumau | “Engaged Engineering” – An Interdisciplinary Approach to Community Assessment & Problem Definition | |
| 1:00 | Lightning Talk | Dr. Amro El Badawy, CE/ENVE | Bottom-up Approach for Integration of Social and Environmental Justice into the CE/ENVE Program Educational Objectives (PEOs) | |
| 1:15 | Lightning Talk | Dr. Michael Whitt + NSBE student representative | The History of NSBE and Its Relationship to Campus Culture | |
| 1:30 | Workshop | Dr. Liz Thompson, Director GENE | Evaluating Your Syllabus to Enhance Inclusivity and Enhance Well-being | |
| 2:00 | Workshop | Dr. Eric Mehiel, AERO | A Lesson on Implicit Bias for First Year AERO Students: Strategies and Data | |
| 2:30 | Workshop | Sarah Macdonald, CTLT & Dr. Zoë Wood, CSSE and members of the Spring 2022 CENG Intro to Equitable and Inclusive Teaching cohort | Reflections on Best Practices from the Inclusive STEM Teaching Project | |
| 3:00 | Workshop | Pam Dougherty, CTLT | Accessibility = Inclusion Description: Learn to use Canvas and Ally to create accessible course content | Join the Zoom link here. |
| 3:45 | Lightning Talk | Pearse Lipscomb, president EMPOWER |
