A Developmental Framework for Teaching Expertise for Engineering and Related Disciplines

Many universities, faculties and departments provide training and education to its new and existing faculty in pedagogical areas. Many are informal and internal courses, workshops and seminars, a few are more formal and recognized initiatives like the US National Effective Teaching Institutes established by Richard Felder and Rebecca Brent. This paper describes one of the latter programs - the one that has been developed by InnovaHiEd (www.innovahied.com) - which focuses on training engineering and other disciplines professors in obtaining the recognized International Engineering Educator Certification granted by IGIP (International Society for Engineering Pedagogy - www.igip.org). It is called the International Engineering Educator Certification Program (IEECP). This paper includes a description of its novel curriculum, its developmental framework for teaching expertise, the student learning experiences, its assessment strategy as well as the learning outcomes of the first cohort offered in 2017. The program and framework presented can help universities interested in developing and demonstrating teaching expertise among its faculty.