Educator Downloads

Open-Access Resources for Socially Engaged Engineering & Design

Do you want your students to…

• Connect technical concepts to the actual problems and constraints engineers face in their work?
• Understand how engineering choices shape risk, harm, and benefits for people, societies, and environments, especially those with limited power or visibility?
• Practice reasoning through uncertainty and tradeoffs where there isn’t one right answer?

These resources are:

• Free – Socially Engaged Engineering & Design resources for your courses under a Creative Commons license.
• Flexible & relevant across disciplines and levels – Materials have been used in first-year courses, senior capstones, and engineering science courses in many disciplines.
• Easy to integrate – 1–3 hours prep time and no ethics, social science, or discussion facilitation background needed.
• Comprehensive – Packages contain everything you need to teach a 50-80 minute session or asynchronous learning block: slides, activities, questions, student readings, instructor guidance, & more.
• Tested & research-based – Developed at University of Michigan College of Engineering, refined in hundreds of classrooms, and supported by peer-reviewed research.

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You can also:

• Learn more about what’s inside each Educator Download and how they’re used.
• Learn more about C-SED’s approach.