Celebrating 20 Years of the ExCEEd Teaching Workshop

In response to the clear need for faculty training, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) developed and funded Project ExCEEd (Excellence in Civil Engineering Education) which is celebrating its twentieth year of existence. For the past two decades, 38 ExCEEd Teaching Workshops (ETW) have been held at six different universities. The program has 910 graduates from over 267 different U.S. and international colleges and universities. The ExCEEd effort has transformed from one that relied on the grass roots support of its participants to one that is supported and embraced by department heads and deans. This paper summarizes the history of Project ExCEEd, describes the content of the ETW, assesses its effectiveness, highlights changes in the program as a result of the assessment, and outlines the future direction of the program

The ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Assessing 20 Years of Instructional Development

The Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Teaching Workshop (ETW), a week-long teacher-training program sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, has been improving the quality of university teaching for twenty years. The 41 workshops conducted over this period have produced 963 graduates from 253 universities around the world. This article celebrates the history of this landmark faculty development initiative. It assesses the extent to which the ETW provides a unique contribution and has influenced teaching practices in U.S. civil engineering programs. This assessment includes participant satisfaction, the long-term influence on participants, the influence on those participants who became ETW faculty leaders, the satisfaction of the deans and department heads who sponsored the participants, the scholarship that has resulted from the ETW, and the implied influence on the engineering students who ultimately benefit from this workshop. Finally, the future direction of the ETW is addressed. Although the workshop is intended primarily for civil engineering programs in the U.S., the results of this study are also highly relevant to other engineering disciplines and to engineering programs outside the U.S

The ASCE ExCEEd Teaching Workshop: Assessing 20 Years of Instructional Development

The Excellence in Civil Engineering Education (ExCEEd) Teaching Workshop (ETW), a week-long teacher-training program sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers, has been improving the quality of university teaching for twenty years. The 41 workshops conducted over this period have produced 963 graduates from 253 universities around the world. This article celebrates the history of this landmark faculty development initiative. It assesses the extent to which the ETW provides a unique contribution and has influenced teaching practices in U.S. civil engineering programs. This assessment includes participant satisfaction, the long-term influence on participants, the influence on those participants who became ETW faculty leaders, the satisfaction of the deans and department heads who sponsored the participants, the scholarship that has resulted from the ETW, and the implied influence on the engineering students who ultimately benefit from this workshop. Finally, the future direction of the ETW is addressed. Although the workshop is intended primarily for civil engineering programs in the U.S., the results of this study are also highly relevant to other engineering disciplines and to engineering programs outside the U.S