Center for Socially Engaged Engineering & Design

We are thrilled to announce the opening of C-SED's first online course! Check out what you could learn from our very own research and experts:

Design engineering solutions with communities in mind.

Learn a new model that is helping engineers put the needs of individuals, communities, and the environment first. “Introduction to Socially Engaged Design” hails from Michigan Engineering, one of the nation’s top engineering schools.
Enroll now: https://myumi.ch/qVmXx

Given that commonly taught and practiced approaches to design continue to promote social, cultural, and economic inequality, we are taking a critical look at design tools and methods — in what ways do design methodologies promote inequality? What are others in our field doing to address injustice? How might we leverage our own work toward justice?

The Center for Socially Engaged Design invites you to join our book club!

“Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design” by Kat Holmes, will be our platform to discuss design and inclusion. Join us for a series of public conversations as we seek to build on the national dialogue around anti-racism and structural inequality. By looking critically at our field, our research, and our practice we will identify tangible action steps to build into our work.

We will convene once a week over the course of 5 weeks via Zoom and utilize MURAL to collect our reflections.

Register here: https://airtable.com/shrzJtHnc13TNtGXc

Thursday, July 2nd
Introductions & Chapter 1

Thursday, July 9th
Chapter 2 & Chapter 3

Thursday, July 16th
Chapter 4 & Chapter 5

Thursday, July 23rd
Chapter 6 & Chapter 7

Thursday, July 30th
Chapter 8 & Chapter 9


Questions? Email [email protected]

Congratulations to the Autonomous Vehicle to Pedestrian Communication team! They are the first place winner of the Socially Engaged Design Award for the Fall 2019 Design Expo.

‪Today, we’re at the Design Expo to recognize design teams who have put in work to consider the larger context behind the problem they are trying to solve with the Socially Engaged Design Awards! ‬ @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (North Campus)

C-SED's course and field immersion program sends students around the globe to practice socially engaged design with community stakeholders. Your support helps us give students the opportunity to experience a new culture while putting their design skills to work for tangible impact: http://myumi.ch/QA39q

Thank you Setco Foundation for hosting! We had a great time learning alongside you!

Applications for the C-SED course and field immersion experience are now open!

In ENGR X55: Finding Genuine Design Opportunities, students learn the skills of socially engaged design during the winter semester, engage in hands-on practice with their teams and complete fieldwork with a community partner to identify potential design opportunities. Students will earn up to 6 credits for the course, meeting during the second half of Winter 2020 and ending with 6-8 weeks of field work in May and June.

Read the project descriptions and apply for the class here: http://myumi.ch/dO9Yn

Anyone is welcome to attend tomorrow's event at North Quad! Our great partners at Nido de Vida will be sharing their experience and facilitating a conversation on meaningful partnerships between the university and external stakeholders.

We're excited to be launching this program in collaboration with Setco Foundation and Gujarat CSR Authority in November!
http://csed.engin.umich.edu/ExecutiveEd

Gujarat CSR Authority is pleased to introduce Socially Engaged Design (SED) Program, a unique executive CSR training program for CEOs / CSR Heads of Corporates and PSUs, delivered by the experts from University of Michigan (UMich), Ann Arbor, USA. Setco Foundation is our partner for the program.

For registration and more details, visit http://www.gcsra.org/sed-for-csr-executives.htm or learn more about Center for Socially Engaged Design at https://csed.engin.umich.edu/executiveed/