C-SED advances people-first engineering through hands-on student learning and 100+ faculty partnerships at the University of Michigan, while sharing research-informed teaching resources with engineering educators across the country. Our work helps engineering instuctors connect technical decisions with societal needs, contexts, and impacts.
Are you a current University of Michigan instructor?
Bring C-SED facilitators to your classroom.
We partner with instructors to bring sociotechnical thinking to 100+ engineering classrooms across Michigan Engineering.
Students engage in hands-on projects in the C-SED Lab that connect engineering design with real people, needs, and contexts.
We make research-informed teaching resources available to educators who want to bring these approaches into their own classrooms.
C-SED materials are developed at Michigan Engineering, refined in hundreds of classrooms, and supported by peer-reviewed research.
Fit
Find materials that match your teaching goals and course context.
Prepare
Use the instructor guide, facilitation notes, and supporting materials.
Integrate
Modify examples, timing, or activities to align with existing course.
Learn how design decisions at Airbnb facilitated discrimination by users, analyze the steps leadership took to reframe their design problem, and assess how their solutions addressed the underlying causes.
C-SED researchers evaluate and inform the center’s methods and study how these approaches work in practice.
