Project Catalyst: How to Engineer Engineering Education Workshop

At this workshop, you will receive personal, individualized coaching as you develop your instructional plans. Arrive at the workshop with a class, assignment, or project you want to revise; leave with a plan grounded in educational literature and best practices that will work for your style and in your context.

Participants will develop a plan to execute changes in a target class or project to improve or increase:

  • Student learning
  • Student engagement
  • Student motivation
  • Instructor satisfaction
  • Instructor work-life balance

You will also leave the workshop with a general understanding of research-based approaches to teaching engineering, and make connections and contacts with peers working on similar teaching innovations.

Our facilitators are experienced instructors as well as ASEE Fellows, teaching award winners, NSF educational research award recipients, department chairs and engineering education researchers. They have more than 150 combined years of experience teaching high-achieving undergraduate engineering students across many disciplines.

This workshop is held on campus at Bucknell University. Planned dates for 2026 are July 8–10. Anticipated registration cost is $750 (early) or $1,000 (regular). Sign-ups will open in early 2026. 

Information

The Catalyst Workshop didn't just provide me with the evidence-based tools and approaches I need to be an engaging and effective educator, but provided ample successful examples and coached me through implementing them into a module of one of my courses. Compared to the workshops and seminars I've attended previously, this was by far the best.

A 2025 workshop attendee

Contact Details

Margot Vigeant, Professor of Chemical Engineering