AGEP Post-Doctoral Engineering Education Researchers (AGEP PEERs)

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AGEP Post-doctoral Engineering Education Researchers (AGEP PEERs) Under the terms of Master Agreement No. 0239565 for unsolicited proposals, the NationalAcademy of Sciences requests funds to support four (4) Alliances for Graduate Educationand the Professoriate (AGEP) alumni per year over a three-year period as post-doctoralfellows in further preparation for their practice of engineering education research as facultymembers at the Nation.s leading universities. These AGEP alumni will be referred to asAGEP Post-doctoral Engineering Education Researchers (AGEP PEERs) and will contribute to the production of faculty peers of unquestioned excellence in the multiple forms of scholarship required for faculty for the 21st Century. The work will be performed by theCenter for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education of the NationalAcademy of Engineering. The outcomes of this effort will be1. Identification and placement of 12 AGEP alumni at engineering education researchcenters for 12-month post-doctoral research experiences focused on engineeringeducation with expectation of resulting publication.2. Attendance of an annual Fellows meeting by current and former AGEP PEERs to buildcommunity and leverage individual experiences.3. Attendance of up to 3 additional professional meetings by each AGEP PEER to establisha presence in their professional community.Intellectual Merit This effort seeks to strengthen the human infrastructure and diversity of the professoriate bylinking AGEP alumni with premier centers of engineering education research. This effortcomplements the disciplinary expertise AGEP fellows have developed within their doctoralprogram by building their skills in the scholarship of teaching and learning. Thus, this projectadvances the integration of research and education.Broader Impacts Successful completion of this project will contribute to the establishment of a cadre of newminority faculty well prepared for excellence in both research and education. Their skills willserve to inspire their peers as well as new generations of scholars from all groups andpopulations. Additionally, greater awareness of the rigor and applicability of education researchby engineering faculty will contribute to more inclusive definitions of faculty scholarship and abeneficial modification of engineering faculty tenure and promotion systems.