The inclusive engineering consortium stakeholders workshop

Over the last 7 years, a collaboration of 13 HBCU Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) programs has been working together to implement Experiment Centric Pedagogy to improve their student learning experience. The lessons learned and best practices of that effort have encouraged the 13 partners to expand the scope of their collaboration to address the full learning and working experience of students, faculty and staff and to expand the group to include other minority serving institutions with ECE and similar programs. With the assistance of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association, the group has created a new organization, the Inclusive Engineering Consortium, consisting of a core group of collaborators and a second, much larger group of affiliated members from other universities, industry and professional societies. The first face-to-face meeting of the new organization was held in July, 2019. Participants included representative from member institutions and industrial partners. This paper will provide a summary of the outcomes from the workshop's sessions: Broad Appeal Programs; Investment in Leaders/Future Leaders; Strategic Connections; Infrastructure; and Building IEC.