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AccessERC, ERC-INCLUDES, AccessEngineering and other DO-IT Center projects produce resources that promote the participation of people with disabilities in engineering and the inclusion of accessible/universal design content in engineering courses.

Brochures

AccessERC Brochure

Learn more about what AccessERC does and the development of ERC products, websites, facilities, and events that are welcoming and accessible to everyone.
Checklist for Making Engineering Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities

Designing engineering labs so that all students can fully participate.
Disability-Related Videos

Video collections that share perspectives of individuals with disabilities and universal design strategies that make the world more inclusive.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Engineering Departments

Guidelines on creating an accessible engineering department using universal design.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Engineering Labs

Guidelines on creating an accessible engineering lab using universal design.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction

A checklist to maximize the learning of all students.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Neuroscience Education and Research

Learn how to create neuroscience facilities and resources accessible to people with disabilities.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Professional Organizations

A checklist for creating a universally designed professional organization.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Engineering Research Center (ERC)

A checklist for making ERCs welcoming, accessible, and usable.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Project

A checklist for making projects welcoming, accessible, and usable
Making a Makerspace? Guidelines for Accessibility and Universal Design

How to create an accessible makerspace.
Promising Practices That Engage People with Disabilities in the CNT

A series of strategies for including people with disabilities in other engineering research centers.

Books and Proceedings

Bringing ERCs into the INCLUDES National Network (2019)

This publication shares the proceedings of the ERC-INCLUDES Capacity Building Institute (CBI) held on April 3-5, 2019.
Building Capacity to Increase the Participation of People with Disabilities in Engineering (2015)

Proceedings of the April 2015 AccessEngineering Capacity Building Institute created to encourage efforts to make engineering more welcoming and accessible to students with disabilities and enhance engineering curricula with disabilities-related topics.
Creating Inclusive Learning Opportunities in Higher Education: A Universal Design Toolkit

This book delivers a step-by-step guide for putting the principles of universal design (UD) into action for all aspects of a postsecondary campus.
Increasing the Participation of People with Disabilities in Engineering Research Centers (Dec 2017)

This CBI provided a forum for sharing interventions that promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities in NSF-funded ERCs.
Increasing the Participation of People with Disabilities in Engineering Research Centers (2016)

This CBI provided a forum for sharing interventions that promote the full inclusion of people with disabilities in NSF-funded ERCs.
Increasing the Participation of People with Disabilities in Engineering Research Centers (2017)

The proceedings of the second annual AccessERC Capacity Building Institute (CBI) entitled Increasing the Participation of People with Disabilities in Engineering Research Centers (ERCs).
Making STEM Accessible to Postsecondary Students with Disabilities

An online multimedia "book" for making STEM learning in postsecondary settings welcoming and accessible to students with disabilities.
Promoting the Successful Participation of People with Disabilities in STEM (2014)

Proceedings of an AccessSTEM Capacity Building Institute at the University of Washington
Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principles to Practice, 2nd Edition

A comprehensive guide on creating fully accessible college and university programs. A unique value to university and college administrators, and to disability and diversity study faculty, researchers, practitioners, and activists. Published by Harvard.
Universal Design in Higher Education: Promising Practices

An online book full of practices for implementing universal design, with opportunities for you to contribute to the collection.

Videos

Broadening Participation in Engineering to Include People with Disabilities
2016
This video showcases students and educators discussing careers in engineering for people with disabilities. Learn how educators can make engineering more welcoming and accessible.
Captions: Improving Access to Postsecondary Education
2014
Professors, students, and IT administrators share the benefits of using captions on videos in postsecondary courses.
Communication Access Realtime Translation: CART Services for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People
2014
Educators tell how Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) provides access to auditory communication for individuals who are deaf.
Creating Accessible Documents
2016
Regardless of whether documents are created in Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, or another format, there are right and wrong ways to create documents in order to ensure people with disabilities can access them.
Engaging Individuals with Disabilities in an Engineering Research Center
2022
This video describes ways that Engineering Research Centers can increase accessibility for individuals with disabilities, including universal design, accessible information technology, accessible engineering labs, and more.
Engaging Individuals with Disabilities in an Engineering Research Center
2016
Stakeholders and collaborators in DO-IT's AccessERC project discuss universal design, accessible information technology, accessible engineering labs, and more.
Equal Access: Universal Design of an Academic Department
2015
Practitioners tell how universal design can make an academic department accessible to all students and faculty.
Including Universal Design in the Engineering Curriculum
2022
Discover how learning around universal design prepares engineering students to design products that are usable by a wide variety of potential users, including people with disabilities.
Including Universal Design in the Engineering Curriculum
2016
Discover how learning around universal design prepares engineering students to design products that are usable by a wide variety of potential users, including people with disabilities.