Our final event of the semester was a DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) seminar series. We hosted it with UM's Women in Aeronautics and Astronautics (WAA), the Graduate Student Committee in Aerospace (GSAC), and Michigan Aeronautical Science Association (MASA).
This month's DEI installation was focused on DEI initiatives within engineering academia. We were ecstatic to hear from the UM Aerospace Engineering department‘s Prof. Ken Powell; Ms. Kimberly Burton, director of Culture, Community, and Equity for the College of Engineering; and of course, our very own College of Engineering's Dean Gallimore. We got to learn about how attitudes towards DEI have changed over time, the great strides the DEI community has made here at the University, and how they plan to move forward in their goals for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Michigan. We were also lucky to hear personal accounts of how DEI efforts affected our panelists, how they navigated them, and what they've learned from them.
We are very grateful for our panelists' contributions, and for everyone else who helped us bring this event to life.
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