Goal of the new Faculty Fellows Award

The goal of the IEEE ASEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) New Faculty Fellows (NFF) award is to recognize early career engineering and computing education scholars for the potential of their contribution to the field. The New Faculty Fellows award recognizes up to five individuals for the award ($1000 each) to assist the recipients in traveling and attending the conference.

The $1000 grant is awarded after the conference only to fellows who:

attended the entire conference
participated in all activities organized for the New Faculty Fellows
presented their paper in a conference session
produced and presented a poster about their career, teaching, and research
interests for display during the “Focus on New FIE Faculty Fellows” session

2026 New Faculty Fellows Application

Eligibility Criteria

Preference will be given to eligible authors who have not published in engineering education research.

For the New Faculty Fellows Award, the IEEE ASEE Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference is looking for individuals who fulfill the following eligibility criteria:

Have submitted and got acceptance of a Work-In-Progress or Full Paper (must be first author on paper)
Must not have attended or co-authored in any previous FIE conference (prior to current conference year) as a postdoctoral researcher or early-career/junior faculty member (tenure track or non-tenure track).
Must not have received the New Faculty Fellow award previously.

The applicant must comply with at least one of the following:

Tenure or non-tenure track junior faculty in engineering or computer science with no more than two years of employment in an academic institution of higher education, at the time of the abstract submission
Postdoctoral researchers with no more than two years of employment in the same role
Doctoral candidates defending dissertations during the academic year beginning in the year of the current conference
For international faculty (tenure or tenure-track), who do not follow United States models of academic employment in higher education, please clarify in one of the application materials the employment model that your institution follows.

Required Documents in the Application

You will be required to submit the following with your application:

A nomination letter/letter of support by the Department Head/ Supervisor/ Advisor. The letter must be on university letterhead and must be signed by the nominator (max 2 pages; Allowed format: PDF)
- The letter must: be on university letterhead; must be signed by the nominator; and provide specific examples of the candidate's commitment to educational innovation or research in engineering or computing
Applicant’s statement of interest for the award (max 300 words; Allowed format: PDF)
- The statement should:
  - Articulate your goals and ambitions for making high-impact contributions to engineering/computing education
  - Describe the meaningful contributions you plan to make (or have already made) to the engineering/computing education community
A current Curriculum Vitae (CV) of the applicant (max 3 pages; Allowed format: PDF)
A headshot picture of the applicant (Allowed format: JPG/JPEG, PNG)
A letter of agreement to indicate that they will complete the following requirements (if selected)
- Attend the entire conference.
- Participate in all activities organized for the New Faculty Fellows.
- Present the paper in a conference session. Write the details of the session in which the applicant will present the paper.
- Produce and present the poster about their career, teaching, and research interest for display during the "Focus on New FIE Faculty Fellows" poster session.

2026 New Faculty Fellows Application

History of IEEE FIE New Faculty Fellows Program

From 2005 – 2010, the IEEE FIE New Faculty Fellows program was sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Prior to that, sponsors were the Microsoft Corporation, the Verizon Corporation, the Lemelson New Education Assistance Program, the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Sloan Foundation.

Since 2011, the FIE New Faculty Fellows grant was made possible by the Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) of the American Society for Engineering Education.