This National Science Foundation Engineering Education Programs Awardees Conference is a meeting of current PIs from Innovations in Engineering Education, Curriculum, and Infrastructure (IEECI), engineering Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU), Research Experiences for Teachers (RET), Engineering Education Programs (EEP), Faculty Early Career (CAREER); Nanotechnology Undergraduate Education (NUE) in Engineering, and Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institutions (BBSI). Engineering deans, department heads, and center directors are also invited to share in the exciting results of this research. The meeting is being managed by Virginia Tech's Department of Engineering Education on behalf of NSF and will be held at the Hyatt Reston in Reston, Virginia.

The objectives of this NSF-Engineering Education grantees meeting are:

• To further develop networks of researchers and practitioners in engineering education.
• To share ideas and best practices within Engineering Education-funded initiatives.
• To better equip PIs and coordinators to disseminate and publish their work, assess educational projects, recruit and retain students from underrepresented groups, and report progress to NSF.
• To answer program-specific questions for PIs and coordinators.
• To stimulate new approaches and solutions to engineering education problems.