University of Pennsylvania
Communications Co-Chair
Hello Everyone! It’s an interesting time to be in higher education – at Penn and eight other universities, we’re responding to the recent Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education sent out by the federal government. Elsewhere, we all continue to be affected by funding cuts, changes in visa policies, accreditation, and ideological intrusions on academic freedom and freedom of speech. ChED is an incredible source of support for all of us who are dedicated to expanding equitable, accessible chemical engineering education for all of our students, and I’m so grateful to be a part of this community!
I hope to see many of you at AIChE in just a few weeks, and even more at ASEE next June. The 2026 ASEE conference will be in Charlotte, North Carolina, and abstract submission is open now – the deadline is this week, OCTOBER 15th, 2025.
– Lorena Grundy (Communications Co-Chair)
Summary of Announcements
- 2026 Annual Meeting: Abstracts due October 15, 2025
- Review ASEE submissions for ChED!
- ASEE PreK-12 Teacher Conference in Charlotte: June 20
- Engineering Education at the AIChE Annual Meeting: November 2-5
- ASEE Videos on Improving Engineering Teacher Professional Development
- Call for Participation in AIChE Education Division Survey on Assessment
- JEE Peer Reviewing Skills Workshop: October 21
- Chemical Engineering Outreach Discussions
- Teaching Focused Faculty Survey
- Call for Study Participants on Teaming Skills and Attitudes
- Fellowship in Honor of Daniel Lepek
To submit announcements to future newsletters: Please send announcements to ched.ASEE.newsletter@gmail.com. We send newsletters mid-month, so try to submit announcements by the 10th of the month (November 10 for the next newsletter). Thank you!
Detailed Announcements
2026 Annual Meeting: Abstracts due October 15, 2025
The ChED executive committee is inviting you to submit papers for the 2026 Annual Conference and Exposition in Charlotte, North Carolina (June 21 – 24, 2025). More information can be found here. Please note the following deadlines:
- October 15, 2025: Abstract submissions due
- January 21, 2026: Draft papers due
- February 18, 2026: Revised papers due
- April 29, 2026: Final papers due
Review ASEE submissions for ChED!
If you would like to review abstract submissions for the division, please fill out this brief form.
ASEE PreK-12 Teacher Conference in Charlotte: June 20
The ASEE PreK-12 Teacher Conference in Charlotte will be June 20, immediately before the main ASEE conference. Join the PreK-12 mailing list.
Engineering Education at the AIChE Annual Meeting: November 2-5
If you are attending the AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston in November, check out the Education Division’s events. In particular, new and prospective faculty may be interested in the effective teaching workshop led by our own ChED members Janie Brennan, Daniel Burkey, and Courtney Pfluger on November 2: more information can be found on the Effective Teaching for New or Prospective Faculty flier.
ASEE Videos on Improving Engineering Teacher Professional Development
Resource announcement: ASEE has put together a five-part video series on YouTube about how to improve engineering teacher professional development.
Call for Participation in AIChE Education Division Survey on Assessment
We represent an AIChE Education Division survey team, looking to determine if and how alternative assessment is being used by chemical engineering faculty. Please consider completing this survey on your current assessment practices: https://neu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_74BhjeshS3xI0po
We want to gather data from faculty who may not have used alternative assessment in any form as well. We would appreciate you distributing this survey to all your faculty colleagues for us to develop a broader evaluation of alternative assessment’s use, successes, and challenges in chemical engineering. If you have any questions, please contact Luke Landherr (l.landherr@northeastern.edu).
JEE Peer Reviewing Skills Workshop: October 21
Join JEE Co-Editors-in-Chief David Knight (Virginia Tech) and Joyce Main (Purdue) for an essential webinar on developing constructive peer reviewing skills in engineering education on October 21, 2025 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET.
Perfect for graduate students and new community members looking to understand the peer review process, learn what editors and authors need most, and build networks in engineering education. Register now for the JEE Peer Reviewing Skills Workshop.
Chemical Engineering Outreach Discussions
ChED is hosting monthly Zoom meetings to highlight best practices in Chemical Engineering Outreach (30-minute presentation, followed by discussion). If you would like to participate and/or present, please email tbayles@pitt.edu!
Teaching Focused Faculty Survey
The AIChE teaching focused faculty (TFF) group is looking to grow its leadership and to get input from TFFs. If you are TFF, please fill out this the Teaching Focused Faculty Survey.
Call for Study: Participants on Teaming Skills and Attitudes
The research study titled “Measurement of Engineering Teaming Skills and Attitudes” is investigating the types of skills and attitudes engineering students develop on teams. Potential benefits of this important research study include: helping us better understand the types of skills and attitudes engineering students have, and how they develop.
The researchers are looking specifically to solicit feedback on their current framework by conducting a Delphi study. You may volunteer to participate in this study if you are (or have in the past been) a college-level engineering educator (adjunct, lecturer, professor, etc.) who has taught undergraduate engineering students. Your participation will require you to take a 15-20 minute survey three times via Qualtrics. These surveys will occur once a month for three months time.
There is no monetary compensation for your participation. Please contact Justin Major (majorj@rowan.edu; Rowan University) or Dr. Richard Cimino (cimino@njit.edu; New Jersey Institute of Technology) if you wish to participate in this Delphi study. Additionally, please feel free to share this information with your academic colleagues who may also be interested in participating!
This study has been approved by Rowan University’s IRB (Study PRO-2023-223).
To participate, please take the first survey for the “Measurement of Engineering Teaming Skills and Attitudes” survey.
Fellowship in Honor of Daniel Lepek
Professor Daniel Lepek passed away about two years ago on May 26th, 2023; he was an excellent colleague, a dedicated and innovative instructor, a brilliant and accomplished researcher, a caring advisor, and a great friend; we are all still getting used to him not being with us.
Current students at Cooper Union never got to have him; we want to help keep his memory alive by endowing a masters fellowship.
Here’s a link to the fellowship donation page. All donations will eventually be given to graduate students here at Cooper. Please consider helping us keep Daniel connected to the Cooper community, a place he loved so much and dedicated his entire career to.