Office for the Advancement of Engineering Teaching & Learning

The Office for the Advancement of Engineering Teaching & Learning (ET&L) offers instructional consultation services to all UW engineering educators.

ET&L services are tailored to the specific needs of engineering faculty. We build on current research to offer a diverse set of instructional development opportunities. Recognizing the time and intellectual commitments of educators at a large research university, ET&L instructional services are always:

Grounded in scholarship
Personalized to your needs
Flexible, integrated, and systematic

In our experience, small changes over time lead to big payoffs. Our clients have enhanced learning and teaching in their courses and improved their teaching evaluations.

Key Resources

To request a mid-quarter formative course assessment, please submit the web form at https://bit.ly/ETLrequest by Friday, October 03, 9:00 AM.
Email Ken at yasuhara@uw.edu and/or Devshikha at dbose@uw.edu to request an individual consultation.
ET&L supports educator-led peer groups within the College of Engineering who meet regularly to discuss education topics. All interested UW educators (including staff) are welcome.
- The Engineering Education Community (EEC) discusses a wide range of education topics and is organized by ME’s Michelle Hickner.
- The AI in Engineering Education group discusses instructor and student use of genAI and is organized by HCDE’s Brock Craft.

Instructional services

One-to-one consultations

A confidential conversation with an ET&L consultant with the aim of mutually determining what resources, services, and advice will help you achieve your teaching goals.

Formative course assessments

A system of data collection methods and analysis used formatively for teachers to make targeted teaching or course improvements.

Education resources & expertise

Domain expertise (e.g., literature reviews, expertise on curriculum development, assessments, pedagogies, and student development) that will save time by helping you quickly locate the most appropriate research to support your teaching goals.

Impact snapshot, 2024–25 academic year

Average of 23 mid-quarter course assessments per quarter (i.e., 7.8 per week during mid quarter)
- Total enrollment of 5,700+ across courses served
- Fast turn-around to facilitate instructor responsiveness
  - Average of 0.6 one business day between class visit and report ready
  - Average of 2.2 business days between class visit and debrief with instructor
13 graduate/undergraduate degree program assessments
3 department-wide surveys of climate and research mentoring