Panel - Integrating Education, Research, and Outreach: Exemplars from the NSF Distinguished Scholars Program

Engineering education is reaching beyond the traditional bounds of teaching engineering to engineering students. As engineering pervades everyone's life, it is becoming increasingly important to teach engineering to non-engineers, to bring engineers and non-engineers together in dialogs around technological topics, to integrate teaching and cutting-edge research, to link engineering students and faculty across national boundaries in new integrated research and educational environments, and to bring engineering into pre-college settings. This panel explores the approaches seven NSF Distinguished Teaching Scholars have taken to integrating their work across the dimensions of education, research, and K-12 outreach. These projects serve as exemplars for how we can stretch the boundaries of engineering education practice.