Karl Smith, STEM Education Center Co-Director, participated in the inaugural meeting of the Transforming Postsecondary Education – Mathematics Advisory Group in Washington, D.C. on March 25. The meeting was organized by the National Academies and the Institute for Advanced Study. He served on Panel 3: Lessons from Postsecondary Reform in other STEM Disciplines and presented two examples of engineering education reform – cooperative learning and engineering education Ph.D. programs.