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AccessEngineering produces resources for students, educators, and others interested in increasing the participation of people with disabilities in engineering and the content about universal design included in engineering courses.

Brochures

2016 Report of the AccessSTEM/AccessComputing/DO-IT Longitudinal Transition Study (ALTS)

A study that tracks the progress of students with disabilities through junctures that lead to high tech degrees and careers.
AccessEngineering: Promoting the Success of People with Disabilities in Engineering and Incorporating Universal Design in Engineering Curricula

How AccessEngineering promotes a more accessible engineering environment.
Checklist for Making Computer Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities

An activity that can lead to greater awareness and more inclusive computer labs.
Checklist for Making Engineering Labs Accessible to Students with Disabilities

Designing engineering labs so that all students can fully participate.
Checklist for Making Informal Learning Accessible to Students with Disabilities

Designing informal science learning 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 Campus Services

A checklist for making campus services welcoming, accessible, and usable.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Computer Labs

A checklist for applying universal design principles to the development of accessible computer labs (publication and video).
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 Informal Learning

A checklist for making informal science learning welcoming, accessible, and usable.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Instruction

A checklist to maximize the learning of all students.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Professional Organizations

A checklist for creating a universally designed professional organization.
Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Project

A checklist for making projects welcoming, accessible, and usable
Equal Access: Universal Design of Your Syllabus
Making a Makerspace? Guidelines for Accessibility and Universal Design

How to create an accessible makerspace.
Working Together: Faculty and Students with Disabilities

Guidelines for faculty that can be tailored to a specific institution by adding a campus resource list.
Working Together: Teaching Assistants and Students with Disabilities

Guidelines for teaching assistants that can be tailored to a specific institution by adding a campus resource list.

Capacity Building Institutes

Accessibility and Universal Design in Engineering Curriculum (2017)

Held on on April 19–21, 2017, the CBI's purpose was to encourage efforts to make engineering more welcoming and accessible to students with disabilities and enhance engineering curricula with disability-related and universal design topics.
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.
Universally Designing Learning and Learning about Universal Design (2016)

Held in Seattle in April of 2016, this CBI aimed to encourage efforts to make engineering more welcoming and accessible to students with disabilities and enhance engineering curricula with disability-related and universal design topics.

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.
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.
Disability and Accessibility in Engineering: What Can Educators Do?
2017
Hear about contributions people with disabilities make to engineering fields and how learning about universal design and accessibility can help engineers design better products.
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.
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.
IT Accessibility: What Web Developers Have to Say
2013
Web designers and developers discuss strategies for creating websites that are accessible to all users.
STEM and People with Disabilities
2011
Educators and students tell how science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) activities can be made accessible and how students with disabilities can prepare for these fields.

Online Resources

Bios of Students with Disabilities in Engineering Fields

Read about the successes of students with disabilities in engineering majors and careers.
Including Universal Design in Engineering Courses to Attract Diverse Students

Giving students skills to improve the world around them can attract a more diverse group of students to engineering.
Making Engineering More Accessible to Faculty with Disabilities

A webinar discussing ways to systematically review and improve facilities, technology, events, and services to make them more accessible and inclusive to faculty members with disabilities.
Making Engineering Welcoming and Accessible for Students with Disabilities

This webinar focuses making engineering welcoming and accessible for students with disabilities by sharing strategies to better serve a diverse student body through the use of universal design.
Teach Access Tutorial for Accessible Mobile and Web Apps

This tutorial will help you get a solid footing on accessibility via hands-on exercises and useful reference guides.
Universal Design in the Curriculum

It’s important to integrate relevant disability, accessibility, and universal design content into engineering and computing courses to increase knowledge and skills among future engineering and computing professionals.
Web Design & Development Curricula

Emphasizing standards-based and accessible design.