Promoting the engagement of people with disabilities in NSF-funded Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) and the development of ERC products, websites, facilities, and events that are welcoming and accessible to everyone.
AccessERC builds the capacity of ERC faculty, staff, and partners to fully include individuals with disabilities in all aspects of ERC endeavors.
The DO-IT Knowledge Base currently contains over 800 Case Studies, Promising Practices, and Q&As regarding accessibility of technology, college, graduate school, and careers for individuals with disabilities. To learn how you can contribute an article, email doit@uw.edu.
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.
An online multimedia "book" for making STEM learning in postsecondary settings welcoming and accessible to students with disabilities. (© 2015)
Practitioners tell how universal design can make an academic department accessible to all students and faculty.
Proceedings of an 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.
Many engineering departments, libraries, and universities are launching new initiatives to create makerspaces, physical spaces where students, faculty, and the broader community can gather and share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build. In creating these innovative spaces we should apply principles of universal design to ensure the spaces, tools, and community are accessible to as many individuals as possible.
As increasing numbers of people with disabilities pursue educational opportunities in engineering, accessibility of engineering teaching and research labs is critical. The ultimate goal is simply equal access. Hands-on learning in lab courses is an important component of an engineering degree. Everyone who needs to use your department's labs should be able to do so comfortably.