2023 AIChE Annual Meeting
Building a Student-Led Safety and Ethics Culture: Lessons from a Student-Run Conference
This workshop will be presented by a team of students at BYU that has organized a safety and ethics conference for the past two years. This has been a huge success, with over 300 participants, keynote speakers, workshops, panel discussions, lab tours, games, competitions, and networking with around a dozen companies present. We plan to discuss how this conference has been used to develop and strengthen a safety and ethics culture among our students, provide leadership opportunities, and enhance ties with industry. We'll present the organizational structures, fundraising, communication, and logistics of planning and execution. We'll also discuss the motivation for the conference and how this is one option of several for developing a safety and ethics culture on campus. Here's a link to the conference website: https://engineeringsafetyethics.byu.edu