Asee Student Chapters: Avenues For Promoting Future Engineering Educators

The University of Michigan (UM) ASEE Student Chapter continues to thrive as an active graduate student organization dedicated to providing a forum for furthering excellence in engineering education. The organization sponsors numerous events to help graduate students prepare for careers in academia, to help undergraduate students prepare for graduate school, and to support the involvement of underrepresented minorities in higher education. In this paper we highlight the activities of the ASEE student chapter at UM and demonstrate the important role that the student chapter has in promoting the nation’s future engineering educators. The strategies employed by the student chapter to sustain viability will also be presented to encourage the formation and growth of ASEE student chapters at other institutions, and thereby build upon the mission of the national ASEE organization to develop the nation’s future engineering educators.