Sustainable TRansformation of Environmental engineering Education for Modern society (STREEM)

Today's environmental challenges, such as access to clean water and energy, climate change, and treatment of pollution and waste, have an acute sense of urgency. There is broad recognition that solutions to these complex challenges will require environmental engineers to integrate concepts from engi ...

Learning Teams and Innovation Ventures for Adaptable Training in Engineering

Academic departments are complex, knowledge-intensive social systems of interacting and interdependent agents (e.g., students, faculty, and staff). Complexity theorists describe such systems as social networks that are continuously reconstructed as agents within the network interact and influence on ...

Innovation Beyond Accommodation: Leveraging Neurodiversity for Engineering Innovation

Radical advances in engineering often emerge through nonstandard ways of thinking. Even so, decades of efforts to increase the representation of women and underrepresented minorities in engineering fields have largely overlooked the cognitive diversity of the human race as a resource that must be le ...

Rethinking Engineering Diversity, Transforming Engineering Diversity (REDTED)

Efforts to improve diversity in engineering have stagnated over the last 10-15 years, despite numerous programs and other activities that have been developed over that time. The lack of progress suggests that it is not enough to simply "fix" the pipeline. Rather, efforts are needed to change the way ...