Collection

2024 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Molly McVey; Priscilla L. Shum

experience was designed to provide studentswith experience “doing” engineering, thus building their sense of competence.Finally, I provided opportunities for connections and mentorship between the studentsthemselves in class activities, between the students and professionals through interactions withguest speakers from industry, and between students and graduate students (the TAs that meetwith them once per week), and myself. Providing opportunities for mentorship from professionalengineers in the field, myself, and the teaching assistants was a means to develop interest andrecognition, as hopefully they were able to identify with some of us in terms of our careerjourneys and the different roles, opportunities, and challenges we had along the way. I