In Professor Khalid Kadir's Spring 2015-Spring 2017 offerings of Engineering 157AC, students were challenged to look beyond the technical elements of their work and recognize the deeply social and political nature of engineering questions. With help from Berkeley Ph.D. student and Chancellor's Public Fellow Lara Cushing, Dr. Kadir established partnerships with local and regional African-American, Asian-American, and Latino community groups, through which students had the opportunity to engage in multiple real-world projects affecting these diverse communities. Projects address a variety of environmental and social justice issues including contaminated drinking water, industrial pollution, and air pollution.
