Faculty teaching practices in an engineering education coalition

This paper discusses the findings from a survey of engineering faculty at the eight colleges of engineering that make up SUCCEED, one of the National Science Foundations engineering education coalitions. Faculty members were surveyed on their use of various teaching methods in their undergraduate classes. Findings show that faculty members who reported attending teaching seminars in their careers were more likely to use active learning methods regularly than those who had not attended any such seminars. Significant usage differences were also found based on the Carnegie classification of the respondents´ schools, their primary job function (teaching, teaching/research, or administration), their involvement in SUCCEED-sponsored activities, their rank, and their sex.