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ABOUT USWe are a national center for research in engineering and technology education Innovating, Inspiring, Integrating and Impacting engineering and technology education: We are comprised of faculty, staff and students – working together to develop young minds towards science and engineering.
Our Values — What We Believe: The needs of our students are our highest priority.
Our Mission — What We Do: Provide the best education possible for each student to flourish and succeed in their professional careers.
Our goal is delivering entrepreneurship skills and mindset with the implementation that builds technical and professional competencies. CREaTE integrates learning and practical lessons in and across academic core academic disciplines from all UTEP colleges: engineering, science, education, health science, liberal arts, business, nursing, etc.
Our Vision — Where We Going: Inventing the future of engineering & technology education.
We advance UTEP’s vision and mission through our actions and efforts.
Our UTEP heritage is our legacy: Engineering is UTEP’s first incarnation; as the State School of Mines and Metallurgy which commenced teaching – the first engineering classes – in September 1914.
Our UTEP future is our focus, as we move UTEP engineering – in all its various forms – into our 111th year, we continue creating new paradigms for the students we serve, through creating research-to-practice advances in methods and practices of engineering and technology education.
Through our teaching at UTEP we seek to prepare students to meet lifelong intellectual, ethical and career challenges and to be the leaders of the 21st Century.
We support students mastering a body of engineering and technology knowledge in specialty fields, to enable them to develop their dreams into actions and highly-valued outcomes.
CREaTE is a nationally renowned center for engineering and technology education: to encompass the full academic spectrum of instruction, research, scholarship, practice, and service. We have an enduring commitment to continuous improvement. We realize that learning happens when excitement meets fun!
Our goal is to creatively inspire, influence and innovate engineering education, embracing learning from across multiple disciplines – the arts and humanities, sciences and technology and business and industry.
We began our efforts in 2000 by extending engineering ideas beyond the univeristy classrooms by encouraging and promoting opportunities for students in primary, secondary and post secondary education. We realize that learning happens when excitement meets fun!
Cutting edge engineering advancement – creatively bringing about STEM learning and success for those we serve.
We work to provide great value to STEM related abilities and achievements by our students, as well as contributing to advancing the contribution of learning and practicing the profession of engineering education across the nation.
We engage national STEM partners to enhance student experience beyond engineering classrooms, promoting the profession of engineering. By providing opportunities for growing success, students receive the critical thinking skills and professional skillset to enhance STEM innovation and workforce.
Since 2007 we have contributed to the development of engineering education at UTEP which encourages students to couple engineering endeavors with entrepreneurship and become visionaries in their areas of expertise. Through active, cooperative, interdependent learning styles and implementing experiential learning, students strengthen their leadership and innovation skillset.
CREaTE works in partnership with core partners UTEP Learning Environments, the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development to foster, build and support higher caliber of student-centered learning. This leads to the advancement of teaching through scholarly research to guide continuous quality improvement of existing courses. Through “thinking rather than just doing” (what we might call reflective practice) we are, ultimately, building and implementing new frameworks and paradigms for engineering education.
Our goal is to make a difference for our students, our region and the nation. Our innovative approach to establishing a dynamic engineering education across the nation serves as a model for institutions, collectively creating the future of engineering and technology education, across the US.
Demonstrative of these efforts (research guiding practice) our UTEP Colleges of Engineering, Education and Science, divisions of Learning Environments and Reach-Out Programs, now report annual expenditures of $10-million+ in the vein of engineering and technology education innovation. This makes engineering education one of the largest research disciplines at UTEP, exceeding many technical research arenas.
This is a notable achievement, and the result of 25-years of visionary engagement in a field that was hardly recognized when UTEP was designated a Model Institution for Excellence by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 1995.
From engineering to technologies and societies: Our increasing influence would not be possible without the support of the UTEP Colleges of Education and Engineering, UTEP UGLC and Learning Environments, UTEP Outreach, the Center for Faculty Leadership and Development, our Office of Innovation and Research, and the Office of Institutional Evaluation, Research and Planning, (CIERP) and Research Evaluation and Assessment Services (REAS) teams. We are grateful for the visionary sponsorship of ASEE, AT&T, Autodesk, Diane and Bob Malone, the Department of Education, the Halliburton Foundation, Lockheed Martin, the National Science Foundation, Raytheon, The School of Engineering Education at Purdue University the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Virginia Tech., and The University of Texas System. We are grateful for their confidence and commitment to helping us change the future for all students in engineering and those who are as yet unseen in our classrooms but have a very bright future in engineering. Talent is everywhere and at UTEP we invite students to join this goal and effort to advance and succeed in higher education – and subsequently in the world of work beyond.
The overarching result is that we are succeeding wildly in creating a first-class educational institution that serves the nation as (what we now refer to) a national model for the 21st-Century demographic. UTEP first became an exemplary nationally-recognized innovator through the Model Institutions for Excellence program, a twelve-year effort by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that aimed at substantially increasing the quality and quantity of under-represented minorities who earn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) baccalaureate degrees and go on to pursue graduate degrees in these fields. UTEP was one of six institutions selected nationwide to create new models for STEM education.
Today we are building on that capacity, and so you see us creating the future of engineering, including spawning a new and nationally groundbreaking undergraduate program in engineering innovation and leadership, while continuing to support research and graduate studies.
Summarily, we are creating the future: The Paso Del Norte region, the State of Texas, and the nation need our wonderful engineers to grow and share their talents – educating the next generations, in what we call the B-L (beginning through lifelong) learning careers in BE STEAM [business, entrepreneurship, science, technology engineering and mathematics] for the 21st Century.
The Center for Research in Engineering & Technology Education (CREaTE), established in 2011, is a cornerstone in supporting the Department of Engineering Education & Leadership's [EEL’s] commitment to innovative practices. Renowned for its bold and rigorous approach, the EEL department delivers world-class education in engineering, focusing on building the innovation and leadership engineering competencies: character, competency, and capacity.
The unique spiral curriculum, spanning four consecutive years with two courses per year, allows engineering innovation and leadership [E-LEAD] students to progressively build themes of critical inquiry, business acumen, entrepreneurship, and ethical professionalism. This honors-style ABET-accredited engineering program enhances core STEM competencies and offers concentrations in UTEP’s technical engineering majors.
The department's emphasis on experiential, vertically integrated project-based learning is propelled by continuous research and scholarship. This approach creates and refines deep learning environments, preparing students to graduate with leadership skills for diverse roles in the US industry.
CREaTE is dedicated to innovating engineering education, aiming to inspire the next generation of engineers. By integrating and leading in an advanced technological society, the center plays a crucial role in shaping the future of engineering education.
