Welcoming Remarks

It is crucial to have engineering students understand the complexities of solving real world global challenges as they will be the ones innovating solutions for the future. This means as educators, we need to provide students with learning experiences that get them to think about not just the engineering concepts to a solution but also the environmental, social, cultural, and economic ramifications of their proposed solutions. Translating these types of learning outcomes to the classroom is important as educators to give the students authentic experiences and projects to facilitate this cross-cultural learning and informing students of the global context to large societal issues. To achieve this, there is also a need to teach and foster inclusivity as they work in teams of people from diverse backgrounds in the future. This talk will discuss the ways I have implemented the concepts of inclusion, innovation, and global context thinking into Chemical Engineering courses I teach and the global programs I have developed.