AccessEngineering To Present Two Webinars in the New Year

AccessEngineering leaders Sheryl Burgstahler, Kat Steele, and Maya Cakmak will present two webinars this spring in partnership with national organizations. The first webinar, Making Engineering Welcoming and Accessible for Students With Disabilities, will be hosted by the National Alliance for Partnerships in Equity (NAPE) on January 18, 2017 at 10AM PT/1PM ET.  The presentation will focus on discussing strategies for making engineering welcoming and accessible for students with disabilities, integrating relevant accessibility-related and universal design content into engineering courses, and ways that these strategies can improve engineering education for all students.

The second webinar, Introducing Accessible Technology in IT and Engineering Courses, will be hosted by the Association on Higher Education and Disability on February 28 at 12 pm Pacific/3pm Eastern. The webinar will look at how disability services staff can work with engineering and computing faculty to: (1) create leaders with more diverse characteristics in their fields and (2) create a new generation of workers who can design products that meet the needs of all potential users.