This project aims to serve the national interest by investigating conditions under which innovative teamwork practices can improve metrics related to students' success in engineering programs. Teamwork is key to engineering success, but little is known about how faculty can effectively facilitate teamwork experiences. Therefore, this Level 2 Engaged Student Learning project plans to advance understandings of practices for effective teamwork for all students. By studying the effectiveness of these innovative practices, the project seeks to contribute to increasing the numbers of students who graduate with engineering degrees. It is anticipated that the research will provide vital and explicit evidence for how specific teamwork facilitation practices influence persistence in engineering by generating empirical evidence of the multidimensional effects of these innovative teamwork practices on engineering students' experiences and perceptions. This has the potential to contribute to a future in which undergraduate engineering students are fully engaged through development, testing, and use of teaching practices and curricular innovations that aim to engage students and improve learning and persistence in STEM. Analyzing how these practices affect factors related to persistence in engineering, and understanding faculty members' experiences utilizing these practices, could lay the groundwork for large-scale institutional improvement in engineering education. The goals of thi