Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in the Chemical Engineering curriculum: working in partnership with students to create sustainable practices
Author(s)
Chadha, D
Heng, JYY
Sun, E
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Having suitable provisions in place to support equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) has become increasingly important throughout higher education. In our chemical engineering department, we are currently exploring strategies that would actively enhance and promote EDI whilst aligning the provisions to the curriculum. In this paper, we discuss some of the work we have been doing in partnership with our student body on developing sustainable practices - that builds on earlier work which focused on defining and identifying EDI practices. We have identified 5 key areas of particular interest to us: improvements to our student-to-student peer review system, a departmental charter for staff and students, constructive changes to the programme handbook, a resource developed by students for students, and changes to the content and delivery of certain modules that could accommodate EDI, or the identification of modules/courses that do. As part of the research/verification process, a limited amount of survey data was collected from students to help us establish underlying issues and how suggested sustainable changes might be perceived. In conducting this work, certain challenges have arisen as well as opportunities.
Date Issued
2023-06-25
Date Acceptance
2023-06-01
Citation
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings, 2023
Publisher
American Society for Engineering Education
Journal / Book Title
ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition Conference Proceedings
Copyright Statement
© 2023 American Society for Engineering Education. Other scholars may excerpt or quote from these materials with the same citation. When excerpting or quoting from Conference Proceedings, authors should, in addition to noting the ASEE copyright, list all the original authors and their institutions and name the host city of the conference.
Source
2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2023-06-25
Finish Date
2023-06-28
Coverage Spatial
Baltimore , Maryland, US