MIE Seminar:"Manufacturing Racial Ignorance: Disabusing the Notion of the Detached Engineer" 6/16

05/25/2023
By Cinamon Blair

The Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering invites you to a seminar:

"Manufacturing Racial Ignorance: Disabusing the Notion of the Detached Engineer"
When: Friday, June 16, 1-2 p.m.
Where: Online (Zoom) and Remote (Dandeneau 220)
Who: Prof. James Holly, Jr., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan

James Holly, Jr., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering and core faculty member within the Engineering Education Research program at the University of Michigan. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Tuskegee University and a master’s degree from Michigan State University, both in Mechanical Engineering. He earned his doctorate in Engineering Education from Purdue University. His research paradigm is shaped by his experiences growing up in a Black church within a Black city and later studying engineering at Tuskegee University, a Black institution, three spaces where Blackness is both normal and esteemed. As such, he sees his teaching, research, and service as promoting pro- Blackness — affirming the humanity and epistemic authority of Black people—in engineering education. His scholarship focuses on the ways disciplinary knowledge (i.e., mechanical engineering) reinforces racialized power, the role of culture and cognition in teaching and learning, and preparing pre-college engineering educators to identify and counteract racial inequity.

For more information contact: Hunter Mack  at hunter_mack@uml.edu.