2026 PEER Collaborative National
Workshop and Unconference

Over the past few years, faculty members who are primarily evaluated on engineering education research have been meeting to talk about what needs one has being on tenure-track or in mid-career in our emerging research-based discipline of engineering education. There are too few senior faculty with expertise in engineering education research, and those colleagues are either too sought after or otherwise engaged to be able to spend much time with early career faculty.  

An annual workshop and unconference immediately after ASEE has helped to meet our own needs through peer and near-peer mentoring. We continue to organize gatherings to support peer mentoring.

The goals of the workshop are to:

1. develop, support, and augment networks and working relationships between faculty members and research staff working at institutions who are evaluated primarily on their engineering education research performance (this can include pre-tenure faculty, research professionals, or tenured, mid-career faculty.

2. develop relationships with peers near your same career level; peers who can help with different aspects of their work and personal life within pairs or teams for multiple mentoring opportunities, and within a group in which all share the context of conducting engineering education research