Engineering Faculty Development: Getting the Sermon Beyond the Choir

This article, originally published in the Journal of Faculty Development, outlines techniques for involving engineering professors in faculty development programs and for making the programs effective. The article describes a faculty development program designed specifically for engineering faculty and implemented on an eight-campus coalition of engineering schools. In the five years of the programs existence, a large percentage of the faculty participated in faculty development activities and adopted proven but (in engineering) non-traditional teaching practices. Each of the participating campuses now has a sustainable engineering faculty development program of its own.Â