Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Chandra Anne Turpen, University of Maryland, College Park; Ayush Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park; Jennifer Radoff, University of Maryland, College Park; Andrew Elby, University of Maryland, College Park; Hannah Sabo; Gina Marie Quan, University of Maryland, College Park

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors, Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

engineering design (e.g., designthinking, engineering epistemology, teamwork and equity). Our peer educators move betweenthese two activity systems: one is the field site for their teaching responsibilities within one of~15 sections of a first-year engineering design course (UMD ENES100), and the second is anengineering-design focused pedagogy seminar (UMD EDCI488E). The co-occurence of theseexperiences in the same semester allows our peer educators to have firsthand experiencesworking with students while trying to make sense of key ideas from education theory andresearch. Details of the design of the pedagogy seminar and the design course context areprovided in Quan et al. (2017), and the design of ENES100 course is presented in Calabro,Gupta, &