The concept of student engagement, now prominent in the engineering education and higher education communities, has a long intellectual history. Yet only recently has attention focused on the role that faculty play as designers of educational environments to support student engagement. The authors seek to show in this article that whether referring to specific components of undergraduate education or to the full experience, faculty members play a critical role in creating conditions conducive to student engagement. This role can be referred to as "faculty engagement." The authors have focused on the critical role that faculty have in designing and implementing educational experiences that fully engage students simply because student engagement is a joint responsibility which relies on the attitudes and behaviors of both students and faculty. Given recent concerns about the ability of the engineering field to attract and retain students, particularly underrepresented and women students, encouraging engineering faculty to take on this responsibility should be a high priority. [Source: "Journal of Engineering Education" v97 n3 p339-353 July 2008.]