Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineering
Although diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) interventions in science, engineering, and higher education are often discussed as being led at the individual or institutional level, departments can be an effective academic entity for creating meaningful culture change. One way a department can emba...
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| description | Although diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) interventions in science, engineering, and higher education are often discussed as being led at the individual or institutional level, departments can be an effective academic entity for creating meaningful culture change. One way a department can embark on this work is through strategic planning, which can help a diverse group of stakeholders come together to identify a set of goals and pathways for achieving those goals over a sustained amount of time. In this piece, we present an overview of the University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering’s three-phase DEI strategic planning process, which involved proposing strategic planning, creating the strategic plan, and preparing for implementation of the plan. Guiding questions and lessons learned from this process are provided to help other departments create their own locally relevant strategic plans in DEI. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5e2bfb1dc45b4ac3bcd0144c38c132652025-08-20T02:54:39ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Education2504-284X2025-04-011010.3389/feduc.2025.14698891469889Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineeringSusan J. Cheng0Susan J. Cheng1Alondra M. Ortiz-Ortiz2Karl Grosh3Karl Grosh4Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesAlthough diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) interventions in science, engineering, and higher education are often discussed as being led at the individual or institutional level, departments can be an effective academic entity for creating meaningful culture change. One way a department can embark on this work is through strategic planning, which can help a diverse group of stakeholders come together to identify a set of goals and pathways for achieving those goals over a sustained amount of time. In this piece, we present an overview of the University of Michigan Department of Mechanical Engineering’s three-phase DEI strategic planning process, which involved proposing strategic planning, creating the strategic plan, and preparing for implementation of the plan. Guiding questions and lessons learned from this process are provided to help other departments create their own locally relevant strategic plans in DEI.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2025.1469889/fulldiversityinclusionequitystrategic planninghigher education |
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| title | Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineering |
| title_full | Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineering |
| title_fullStr | Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineering |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineering |
| title_short | Engineering change: strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion in mechanical engineering |
| title_sort | engineering change strategic planning to build a department culture of diversity equity and inclusion in mechanical engineering |
| topic | diversity inclusion equity strategic planning higher education |
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