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In the current political climate, racial, gender, and sexual differences are controversial topics, particularly on college campuses. This illuminates the need for increased focus on these issues in college classes. Although the literature on teaching about privilege is small, it is dominated by the voices of White faculty and almost completely focuses on racial issues. Marginalized faculty are rarely heard in this literature, and academia lacks an intersectional understanding of teaching about oppression and inequality. This chapter is an intersectional exploration of faculty of color and how their gender and sexual orientation affect their teaching about privilege. It expands understanding of impression management among faculty of color and how its significance changes based on age, gender, and other factors. It expands the understanding of issues surrounding teaching about inequity from an intersectional perspective and moves the focus beyond tenure-track faculty. It adds to the literature focusing on the experiences of faculty within the classroom and provides ways to support marginalized faculty in their teaching. Although the faculty interviewed here are sociologists, there are broad implications for teaching across disciplines.

Construction is filled with labor intensive, hazardous, and often wasteful processes. It is also an enormous industry, so improvements in efficiency could have a tremendous economic impact. Construction-scale additive manufacturing is one path toward achieving those improvements. In this paper, a construction-scale additive manufacturing system, called Sky-BAAM, is presented. In addition to possibly leading to more energy-efficient construction practices, leveraging additive manufacturing in construction opens the solution space to more energy efficient building design. One such design, the EMPOWER wall, is also presented in this paper. The exterior of the wall is shaped to maximize heat transfer, while acting as form work for an internal energy-storage system. This allows energy to be stored in the wall during off-peak times and retrieved during peak periods.

Many of us earn graduate degrees focused on a mastery of content, yet with very little focus on instruction on how to teach effectively. There are a plethora of books and articles about different w...