Frontiers of Engineering Education

Project Status
In Progress
October 24, 2017
Sponsor
O'Donnell Foundation and the McDonnell Family Foundation
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FOEE Website
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    The Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium brings together some of the nation’s most engaged and innovative engineering educators in order to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education.

At-a-Glance
Symposium bringing together engaged and innovative engineering educators to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education
Objectives
  • The Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) Symposium brings together some of the nation’s most engaged and innovative engineering educators in order to recognize, reward, and promote effective, substantive, and inspirational engineering education through a sustained dialogue within the emerging generation of innovative faculty.
Key Contacts
  • Beth Cady
    Acting Director, Program Office
    National Academy of Engineering
    E-mail
    ecady@nae.edu
    Office
    202-334-2064

The Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) faculty members are actively teaching in U. S. engineering programs and have recently implemented significant innovations in their classes. Attendees participate in discussions and workshops focused on applying pedagogies to student learning of engineering fundamentals, as well as personal, interpersonal, and professional skills.

Attendees have multiple opportunities to share their innovations with others, learn from best practice, and network with colleagues. Attendees present new approaches they are taking to classroom, laboratory, project, experiential, computer-based, or other modes of preparing engineering students to work and lead in the 21st century. They discuss the current and evolving contexts that should shape engineering and engineering education. The program will assist them in forming an on-going, self-supporting cohort committed to innovation and sustained excellence in engineering education.

FOEE seeks to make 21st century engineering education exciting, creative, rigorous, adventurous, demanding, and empowering by

  • Presenting and propagating innovative and effective learning strategies that prepare future engineers to face 21st century challenges and opportunities.
  • Raising the professional prominence of faculty who are selected for he FOEE.
  • Enhancing opportunities for professional collaboration and mutual support among FOEE faculty
  • Stimulating awareness of and interest in FOEE findings and events across all U.S. engineering schools.
  • Documenting, over the long-term, enhanced student knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes as a result of local and widespread implementation of FOEE innovations.
  • Enhancing, over the long-term, the recruitment, retention, and professional success of engineering students by virtue of local and widespread implementations of FOEE innovations.
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