工程教育实验室支持2006年10月版的《工程教育杂志》中所述的工程教育新学科的国家研究议程。确定的一些领域包括工程认识论，工程学习机制，工程学习系统，工程多样性和包容性以及工程评估。本科教育方面的主要研究工作旨在了解和改善工程与信息技术学院的性别氛围，并确定“荣誉大学简介”（IHU）计划对本科生的表现和保留的有效性。K-12领域的研究工作重点是确定准备小学教师在课堂上教授工程学的内容，了解全面的高中工程学计划（Project Lead the Way）对招募和保留本科工程学的影响专业，发展称为STEM学院
The Engineering Education Laboratory supports the national research agenda for the new discipline of Engineering Education as described in the October 2006 edition of the Journal of Engineering Education. Some of the areas identified include Engineering Epistemologies, Engineering Learning Mechanisms, Engineering Learning Systems, Engineering Diversity and Inclusiveness, and Engineering Assessment. Primary research efforts in undergraduate education are aimed at understanding and improving the gender climate in the College of Engineering & Information Technology and determining the effectiveness of the Introduction to an Honors University (IHU) program on undergraduate student performance and retention. Research efforts in the K-12 arena focus on identifying the content necessary to prepare elementary school teachers to teach engineering in the classroom, understanding the impact of a comprehensive high school engineering program (Project Lead the Way) on the recruitment and retention of undergraduate engineering majors, developing Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professional learning communities called STEM Academies, and determining the effectiveness of alternate teacher preparation programs specifically applied to STEM.