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Abstract The growth of the engineering education research community in the past about twenty years has been remarkable. Several factors have contributed to the growth, including many universities starting engineering education PhD granting programs, the increased emphasis on engineering education research at the Engineering Education and Centers Directorate at the National Science Foundation, and the increased interest among traditional discipline-based engineering faculty in adding engineering education research to their research portfolio. The panelists will summarize, discuss lessons learned, implications and future prospects for (1) the Annals of Research on Engineering Education (AREE), (2) the Engineering Education Research and Innovation Networking (EER&I) sessions, and (3) Research on Engineering Education for Practice (REEP). The majority of the session will be spent in small group discussions of previous programs for building engineering education research capabilities, sharing current efforts, and exploration of future approaches.
Cady et al. (Sun,) studied this question.