Category: DEI Course

Seminar Announcement – DEI in CEE – Scott Brandenberg

 
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Initiatives at Public Universities

Scott J. Brandenberg, Ph.D.
Professor UCLA
March 30 – 5:00pm EST

https://gatech.zoom.us/j/98437378041?pwd=bk1oaE0wTXB2azNIRm01Mkc3cHlodz09

ABSTRACT

This presentation will discuss equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) training initiatives, including findings of what types of training has worked well, and what has not worked so well. Universities are at the forefront of EDI training, and public Universities in particular face challenges balancing the goals to diversify the student body, faculty, and staff with affirmative action laws (which vary State-to-State). The Samueli School of Engineering at UCLA has implemented an EDI initiative titled Awareness to Action that is an interactive multimedia two-part workshop. The first workshop focuses on gender and the second on race, and covers topics such as implicit bias, in-group/out-group dynamics, and engineering impacts arising from lack of diversity. The program has been delivered to about 400 students, and preliminary post-workshop assessment data indicates that the program has resulted in several positive outcomes with respect to students’ behaviors.

BIOGRAPHY

Seminar Announcement – DEI in CEE – Paulina Jaramillo (1)

Evidence of gender inequality in energy use from a mixed-methods study in India

Paulina Jaramillo, Ph.D.

Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
VIEW RECORDING HERE

ABSTRACT

Prior studies suggest that women particularly stand to benefit from increased electricity access. Yet, few have empirically tested this implicit linkage between energy access (SDG 7) and gender equality (SDG 5). More specifically, few explore how female household members use electricity once it is made accessible. Using India as an illustrative case, we conduct a mixed methods study. We first inductively assess household appliance use by gender in Gujarat (n = 31). We then assess the generalizability of the use patterns identified through a representative six-state household survey (Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, n = 8,563). In including use, we find that women are neither the sole nor primary beneficiaries of electricity access, even when appliances that would particularly benefit them are affordable. While energy access could improve gender equity, our study highlights intra-household power dynamics as an important boundary condition on realizing more equitable energy access.

BIOGRAPHY

Paulina Jaramillo is currently a professor of engineering and public policy at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Jaramillo’s past research focused on life cycle assessment of energy systems with an emphasis on climate change impacts and mitigation research. As a professor at CMU, she is currently involved in multi-disciplinary research projects to better understand the social, economic, and environmental implications of policy-driven changes in the operations of the energy system. Over the past five years, her research and education efforts have expanded to include issues related to energy access and development in the Global South. She has also worked to incorporate values and beliefs in energy planning in historically disenfranchised communities and to understand the implications of energy access in gender equity.

Thank you for joining us yesterday for a thought-provoking seminar with Dr. Michael Falk, Professor at Johns Hopkins University,  followed by a lively discussion.

You can view the abstract for Dr. Falk’s seminar, “The Climate for LGBTQ students, academics and professionals in STEM: Lessons From a Study of the Physics Community” here:  Seminar Announcement – DEI in CEE – Michael Falk

If you were attend this week, the recording is available here. The discussions that follow the seminar are not recorded in order to protect the privacy of our attendees.

Learn more about the DEI in CEE Seminar Series here.