Forbes features Wei LAB project building pathways to inclusion in engineering

A project out of Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB) that aims to more fully engage women and people of color in engineering was featured in a recent Forbes article that is headlined, “REVIIS and the Path to Inclusive Engineering.”

UW–Madison’s Brian Burt, an associate professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis and director of the Wei LAB, is the principal investigator of the project, titled Raising Equity Values with the Inclusive Professional Framework and ISO DEI Standards for Societies (REVIIS).

Burt and his diverse team of organizational change leaders and engineering professional society leaders recently received a $1.25 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the project, which aims to increase diverse engineers’ access to and inclusion in professional engineering societies and engineering more broadly...

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