Center for Innovation in Engineering Education
Researching, applying, and disseminating educational innovations
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Research, evaluate, apply, and disseminate educational innovations that advance learning for all and equip future engineers to positively impact the world.

Mission

Overview

The Center for Innovation in Engineering Education was launched in 2022 to lead innovation and scholarship in undergraduate engineering education, to support the success of all students, and to advance the practice of teaching in the College of Engineering.

Central Priorities:

  • Sponsor, conduct, and coordinate education research
  • Assess educational impact of new practices and initiatives
  • Be a change agent to enhance teaching skills
  • Improve the quality of student experiences
  • Create and lead a Grand Challenges Scholars Program
  • Lead and grow student leadership development programming
  • Foster coordination between existing units across CoE

Core Principles of Work:

  • Apply scholarship to make evidence-based decisions
  • Be collaborative & inclusive in everything we do
  • Develop capacity-building learning experiences
  • Conduct all work using ethical practices
  • Embrace a holistic view of learning
  • Create transferrable and shareable knowledge
Four members of the CIEE team standing in front of a nuclear reactor panel
CIEE team members (Arsalan Ahmad, Erica Hagen, Angela Kita, and Chris Dakes) on a tour of the College of Engineering nuclear reactor.
Six members of the CIEE Team posing in the UW Makerspace.
CIEE team members (Back: Haley Briel-Wojtak, Chris Dakes, Christa Wille, Angela Kita, Lisa Burley; Front: Erica Hagen) spending some time in the UW Makerspace.

Research, evaluate, apply, and disseminate educational innovations that advance learning for all and equip future engineers to positively impact the world.

(Mission of the Center for Innovation in Engineering Education)