<scp>JEE</scp>'s role in publishing high quality engineering education research

We interrogated the full submission-to-publication process to honor the resource limitations of authors, reviewers, and editorial board members and to reduce the overall time to publication. As of May 2025, the median time from initial submission to publication declined by 120 days relative to 2024 (a reduction of 28%) and by 208 days relative to 2023 (a reduction of 40%), and we anticipate further reductions given some of our recent process changes. Shifts in our processes have included the following: We continue to reflect upon and seek to improve how JEE serves the broader engineering education research community. If you are interested in joining the editorial board, please reach out to us—we are always working on building our team. And most importantly, we appreciate that authors from around the globe choose to share their work in JEE and keep it a top destination for high quality engineering education research. The JEE editorial board has the challenging task of selecting one article from a volume to recognize with the William Elgin Wickenden Award of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), named in honor of William Elgin Wickenden, engineer, educator, philosopher, administrator, and humanitarian. All articles published within a volume are automatically considered for the award. Congratulations to Darryl A. Dickerson, Stephanie Masta, Matthew W. Ohland, and Alice L. Pawley for their article “Is Carla grumpy? Analysis of peer evaluations to explore microaggressions and other marginalizing behaviors in engineering student teams,” which was published in the July 2024 issue (https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20606) for earning the 2024 William Elgin Wickenden Award of the American Society for Engineering Education! Many thanks to Senior Associate Editor Bill Williams and Deputy Editor Adam Carberry for co-chairing the selection process and Wickenden Award committee members Walter Lee, Alex Mejia, and Natalie Wint. We also appreciate the entire JEE editorial board for participating in this challenging task of identifying one paper to recognize out of an entire volume of excellent research contributions. The peer review process is a fundamental feature of JEE and a critical activity within the research process. As we have described previously (Knight & Main, 2024), the peer review process helps all of us vet and improve our ideas, communicate more clearly, and often times helps us draw out how findings represent unique contributions that extend, refute, or provide new insights within engineering education research. We do not believe that engaging in peer review should be thought of as a tack-on academic obligation. Rather, we believe engaging in peer review is an activity that is core to the mission of engineering education research and a professional responsibility of being an engaged member of the field. If you would like to join our reviewer database, please let us know here: tinyurl.com/ReviewForJEE. We enjoy highlighting a few members of the JEE community each year to recognize outstanding contributions. We would be remiss, however, not to acknowledge everyone in the community for helping continue to make JEE a top destination globally for sharing engineering education research. All of our authors, reviewers, editorial board members, and readers play critical roles, and we appreciate you. We are saying a fond farewell and thank you to our colleagues who have rotated off the editorial board over the past few issues. We deeply appreciate the service of Deputy Editor Denise Simmons, Senior Associate Editor Noah Schroeder, Associate Editor Brandon Collier-Reed, Associate Editor Camilo Vieira, Assistant Editor Brian McSkimming, and Senior Associate Editor Bill Williams. We are pleased to welcome several new members to the JEE Editorial Board: Christopher Wright as Associate Editor (Drexel University), Jacqueline Rohde as Associate Editor (Georgia Tech), Roland Tormey as Associate Editor (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland), Teresa Hattingh as Associate Editor (Engineering Council of South Africa), Cijy Sunny as Assistant Editor (Florida Gulf Coast University), Eunsil Lee as Assistant Editor (University of Buffalo), and Assad Iqbal as Assistant Editor (Purdue University). We also are pleased to announce that Catherine Berdanier was promoted to Senior Associate Editor (Pennsylvania State University), Angie Minichiello was promoted to Senior Associate Editor (Utah State University), and Cassandra McCall was promoted to Associate Editor (Utah State University).