Cutler, S., & Zappe, S. E., & Osunbunmi, I. S., & Dory, S. (2025, June), Lessons Learned from 35 Years of Impact in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/56912

\bibitem{asee_peer_56912}
  Cutler, S., \& Zappe, S. E., \& Osunbunmi, I. S., \& Dory, S. (2025, June), \emph{Lessons Learned from 35 Years of Impact in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/56912

Stephanie Cutler, Sarah E Zappe, Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, and Shawna Dory.  "Lessons Learned from 35 Years of Impact in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/56912 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_56912}
  Stephanie Cutler, Sarah E Zappe, Ibukun Samuel Osunbunmi, and Shawna Dory.
  "Lessons Learned from 35 Years of Impact in the Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/56912 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - In 1990, a forward-thinking alumnus, William Leonhard, gave a generous endowment in the support of enhancing engineering education at Penn State. Over the last 35 years, the established Leonhard Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Education has worked to have a lasting impact within the College of Engineering and more broadly, including launching educational innovations such as the Learning Factory, engineering leadership and entrepreneurship minors, faculty development programs, and formal pedagogical training of engineering graduate teaching assistants. This Lessons Learned paper will discusses lessons learned over the last 35 years while also providing historical and more recent impact for of the Leonhard Center. To examine the impact of the Leonhard Center, two data sets were examined. First, a recent impact study was conducted by surveying faculty who received grants from the Leonhard Center within the past few years. Additionally, previous efforts over the full 35 years of the Leonhard Center will be  was explored based on an artifact analysis of meeting notes from the Leonhard Center’s Industry Advisory Board (which has met every semester since 1991). 

We hope that by sharing our efforts, other centers for teaching and learning can learn from our experience. We also highlighted how the Center’s focus reflected broader educational and societal trends, including broadening participation in engineering, globalization, professional skill development, and most recently, artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.  Additionally, we would like to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the Leonhard Center by sharing the work we have done and future work we are planning to pursue. Throughout the history of the Leonhard Center, there have been many lessons learned, forgotten, and re-learned that we would like to share with the faculty development community. By disseminating the center’s longitudinal impacts and lessons learned, this work informs the engineering education community about the role of teaching and learning centers in engineering education. 

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