2025 PEER Collaborative National
Workshop and Unconference
Save the Date: Wednesday, June 25 (dinner) and Thursday, June 26 (unconference day), 2025
Are you a faculty (new hire, pre-tenure, tenured or mid-career faculty) or staff member who is primarily evaluated on your engineering education work? The PEER Collaborative is a growing community of people in similar situations who mentor each other in engineering education research matters.
Tentative PEER 2025 Schedule, location TBD (near the Montreal Convention Center). Come to as many or as few events as you are able.
Wednesday
6:30-8:00 pm Dinner at nearby restaurantThursday
9:00-10:00 am Welcome and activities10:00-10:30 am Break10:30-12:00 pm Unconference Session12:00-12:15 pm Regroup12:30-1:45 pm Lunch / Unconference Session1:45-2:00 pm Regroup2:00-4:00 pm Unconference Session4:00-5:00 pm Wrap-up
Context and Need
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.
Goals for the Workshop
The goals of the workshop are to:
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.
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
Past PEER Collabotive Workshops and Participants:
More information: Publications
2014 ASEE Conference paper & presentation:
Pawley, A. L., & Carberry, A. R., & Cardella, M. E., & Carnasciali, M., & Daly, S. R., & Gorlewicz, J. L., & Herman, G. L., & Hynes, M. M., & Jordan, S. S., & Kellam, N. N., & Lande, M., & Verleger, M. A., & Yang, D. (2014, June), The PEER Collaborative: Supporting Engineering Education Research Faculty with Near-peer Mentoring Unconference Workshops Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--23170
2014 PEER ASEE presentation.pptx