Evaluation Capacity Building (ECB) is an emerging construct in evaluation, now understood as essential for ensuring high-quality evaluations are conducted and supported. While several definitions for ECB exist, each maintains components and strategies that can be employed to increase ECB in a particular field or context. In this paper, an NSF-funded project, the Evaluation Tools Database is examined as a way of enhancing ECB in the field of engineering education. The database documents characteristics of evaluation tools developed and used by engineering educators over the last ten years. This paper examines the Evaluation Tools Database in relation to Stockdill, Baizerman, and Compton’s (2002) conceptual and working definitions of ECB to offer one example of an effective method for building evaluation capacity in engineering education.#AssessmentinHigherEducation #2011Conference