Career Trajectories In Engineering Education – Where Are They Now?

As part of the newly funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering (CAEE) we are developing year long Engineering Education Institutes to build greater capacity in the scholarship of engineering teaching and learning. Although the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) have targeted building capacity as a top goal, the engineering education community is well aware of the challenges of such a pursuit 1 . Of major concern are hiring, tenure, and promotion policies for the collection of graduate students, post-doctoral students and tenure-track faculty who are actively contributing to the scholarship of engineering education.