Diverse and Inclusive Learning and Working Environments
摘要
This chapter aims to equip leaders in engineering with the tools to create a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive education and industry. This chapter first highlights issues experienced by various marginalized groups due to curricular designs and tangential academic work environments. The topics covered includes creating a more inclusive environment for women through FemTech in the United Kingdom, decolonizing the curriculum to focus on problems relevant to students’ local context in South Africa, and advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) alongside professional organizations through inclusive leadership in the United States of America. Next, the chapter documents three cases that aim to provide examples of strategies to manage DEI problems by tackling students and educator barriers to belonging and continuously building more diverse and inclusive systems and teams. Overall, this chapter shares ways by which educators and leaders can learn from each other and create a more sustainable and inclusive setting for learning and working environments.