URL: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/decolonizingengineering/
This Resource
Description: An Open Educational Resource developed at UBC to provide engineering faculty with frameworks, learning objectives, and sample lesson plans for integrating Indigenous perspectives into their courses.
Author(s): Pam Wolf, Lilian Gonzalez, Paula Rattray, Sudip Saha, John Shaw, Shannon Martinussen, Dan Harris
Publisher: University of British Columbia (cIRcle)
Language: English
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Key topics: Curriculum planning, Indigenous peoples, Engineering education, Decolonization
Why this resource matters: It bridges the gap between high-level institutional goals and classroom reality by offering a practical, ready-to-use framework tailored specifically for engineering faculty. It includes concrete examples of how to bring these perspectives into technical courses.
Connection to Indigenous Knowledge
How this resource connects to indigenous perspectives: Provides structural guidance and specific pedagogical tools for engineering educators to respectfully bring Indigenous histories, perspectives, and ways of knowing into standard engineering curricula.
Indigenous communities or nations involved: General focus on Indigenous peoples in Canada, contextualized for UBC / Musqueam territory
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Contributor / submitted by: Dr. Farnaz Sadeghpour (as a sample)
Date added: April 30, 2026
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