Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Geoffrey L Herman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kyle F Trenshaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Michael C. Loui, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Kerri Ann Green, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; David E. Goldberg, ThreeJoy Associates, Inc. and the University of Illinois

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

from the pilot IM course conversion volunteered to serve as peer mentors. These peermentors acted as team leaders for three learning teams during their weekly consultation meetingsto help reduce the teaching load of the TAs. These students volunteered because they had had apositive experience in the pilot course and they recognized an opportunity to learn teammanagement skills which they hoped would be helpful later in their careers as engineers. Weexpect that more students from the scaled IM course conversion will similarly wish to return aspeer mentors. If sufficient numbers of students volunteer as peer mentors, we could potentiallyeven lower the financial cost of the IM course conversion by reducing the number of TAsrequired to run the