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Engineering Education Research in Canada: Out from the Shadow of a Giant Cover

Engineering Education Research in Canada: Out from the Shadow of a Giant

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|Nov 2025

Figures & Tables

Table 1

ASEE offshoot reports and organizational efforts.

YEARASEE OFFSHOOT REPORTS & ORGANIZATIONAL EFFORTSPUBLICATIONS & WEBSITE SOURCES
1917“A Study of Engineering Education” by Charles R. Mann (“Mann Report”)https://aseecmsprod.azureedge.net/aseecmsprod/asee/media/content/member%20resources/pdfs/mann_1.pdf
1923Wickenden Reporthttps://aseecmsprod.azureedge.net/aseecmsprod/asee/media/content/member%20resources/pdfs/wickenden-theinvestigationofengred_1.pdf
1939“Report of Committee on Aims and Scope of Engineering Curricula” (Hammond Report)https://aseecmsprod.azureedge.net/aseecmsprod/asee/media/content/member%20resources/reports/hammond-report-1940.pdf
1955“Report on the Evaluation of Engineering Education” (Grinter Report)https://aseecmsprod.azureedge.net/aseecmsprod/asee/media/content/member%20resources/pdfs/the-grinter-report-pdf_1.pdf
1968“Goals of Engineering Education” (“ASEE Goals Report”)https://aseecmsprod.azureedge.net/aseecmsprod/asee/media/content/member%20resources/reports/goals_of_engineering_education.pdf
2006Engineering Education Research ColloquiesThe National Engineering Education Research Colloquies (2006)
2007International Conference on Research in Engineering Education (CREE)—becomes REEN/REEShttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.2168–9830.2007.tb00938.x
2008Research in Engineering Education Network and international conference, Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REEN/REES)https://reen.co
2009–2012CCSSIEE—Creating a Culture for Scholarly and Systematic Innovation in Engineering EducationJamieson & Lohmann (2009, 2012)
2010PEER Collaborative (NSF-EEC-1129455)Pawley et al. (2014)
https://sites.google.com/view/peer-collaborative
2011Engineering Education Global Community ResourceCarberry & Yasuhara (2025)
http://engineeringeducationlist.pbworks.com/w/page/27578912/Engineering%20Education%20Community%20Resource
2017Engineering Education Heads and Chairs group
2019Engineering Education Research Mentor Networkhttps://sites.google.com/view/eermentornetwork/home
Table 2

CEEA-ACÉG offshoot but independent organizations and symposia.

YEARCEEA-ACÉG OFFSHOOT ORGANIZATIONS/SYMPOSIARELEVANT PUBLICATIONS & INTERNET SOURCES
2010EGAD (Engineering Graduate Attribute Development project)EGAD (2011a); Frank et al. (2011); Kaupp & Frank (2017)
2014Graduate Attribute and Continual Improvement Process Symposium (GACIP)EGAD (2011b)
2015Engineering Change Lab (ECL)https://engineeringchangelab.ca/
2015Canadian Engineering Education Challenge (CEEC)Mattucci (2019)
2016National Initiative on Capacity Building and Knowledge Creation for Engineering Leadership (NICKEL)(Troost Institute for Leadership Education in Engineering, 2016)
https://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/nickel-national-conversation-engineering-leadership-education/
2018Institute for Engineering Education Research (IEER) and Institute for Engineering Teaching (IET)https://ceea-aceg.ca/about-ceea-aceg/institute-for-engineering-education-research/
https://ceea-aceg.ca/about-ceea-aceg/institute-for-engineering-teaching/
2020Engineering Collaboration for Online and Remote Education- collaboration pour l’ingénierie enseignée en ligne (E-CORE/CIEL)Mattucci et al. (2021)
https://ceea.ca/about-e-core/
2021Engineering Education Research Snackshttps://ceea.ca/resources-2/
2022Canadian Design Workshop (CDW)Rennick et al. (2022)
https://uwaterloo.ca/canadian-design-workshop/about
2023Design Workshop Competency-Based Assessment Symposiumhttps://smithengineering.queensu.ca/about/teaching-and-learning/events/cba-symposium
2023National Engineering Education Ecosystem Project (NEEEP)Engineering Deans Canada (2023)
2025CEEA-ACÉG Future Leaders Academyhttps://ceea-aceg.ca/ceea-news/call-for-participants-future-leaders-academy/
Table 3

The EERC Research Areas (Special Report, 2006).

1. Engineering epistemologies
2. Engineering learning mechanisms
3. Engineering learning systems
4. Engineering diversity and inclusiveness
5. Engineering assessment
Table 4

Areas of Published Research in CEEA-ACÉG 2019 Proceedings (reported from most to least frequent) (Bezerra Rodrigues, Seniuk Cicek, et al., 2021).

AREA OF RESEARCHEXAMPLES
Teaching and Learninginstructional designs, tools, and methods to improve students’ learning; course, curriculum, or intervention design; project-based, active, and problem-based learning, and flipped classroom; knowledge base for engineering, design, entrepreneurship, diversity, and communication
Assessmentself-, formative, and group assessments, and exam formats
Studentsmental health, recruitment and retention, study behaviors, experiences
Facultyprofessional development, attitudes, experience
Engineering education disciplinecurrent state of the field
Organizationalinstitutional culture and structure, the education system
Philosophy of engineeringthe nature of engineering and engineering knowledge
Figure 1

U.S. NSF Engineering Education funding from 2020–2025 in the Directorate for Engineering Education and Centers. (Data drawn from public awards database Using program element codes 012Y00 for the RED program, and 134000 for Engineering Education).

Figure 2

How funding and a home support legitimacy in EER.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/see.104 | Journal eISSN: 2690-5450
Language: English
Page range: 45 - 73
Submitted on: Jul 14, 2022
Accepted on: May 8, 2025
Published on: Nov 10, 2025
Published by: Virginia Tech Publishing
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2025 Jillian Seniuk Cicek, Jeffrey W. Paul, Renato Bezerra Rodrigues, Patricia Sheridan, Robyn Mae Paul, Alice L. Pawley, published by Virginia Tech Publishing
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