Activities to Promote Discussions about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion among International Engineering Graduate Students

International engineering graduate students often report that they lack knowledge about racial identity in the US and that they feel left out of diversity conversations in higher education.Likewise, cultural differences with respect to attitudes towards and experiences of other minoritized groups, such as queer students, can also be challenging for international graduate students.For example, some international engineering graduate students at our university have expressed confusion when asked if they wished to share their personal pronouns.With financial support provided by a seed grant from our university, we organized the 2022 International Perspectives on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (iDEI) Summit.The 2022 iDEI Summit was a day-long discussion among international engineering graduate students about diversity, equity, and inclusion.The iDEI Summit yielded several challenge statements and associated recommendations that will assist our leadership in better supporting our international engineering graduate students and engaging them in efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.In this paper, we share detailed descriptions of the activities of the iDEI Summit so that others can readily implement them.Our goal is to help our colleagues by reducing the resources needed to coordinate similar events.