Conference Session

Undergraduate Peer Educators: Mentoring, Observing, Learning

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Vanessa Svihla, University of New Mexico; Catherine Anne Hubka, University of New Mexico; Eva Chi, University of New Mexico

Tagged Topics

ASEE Board of Directors

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

, 66]. Whilestudents may hold and develop many identities (e.g., as college students, young adults,engineering students, athletes, etc.), this double-sided characterization draws attention to the rolethe institution might play in the professional formation of engineers. For instance, a departmentcan identify students as engineering majors, and the students themselves identify as futureengineers more strongly once admitted [67]. But when considering what it means to be aprofessional engineer and do the work of engineering, unless students have other sources of first-hand knowledge (e.g., through a parent who is an engineer, or through an internship), they mustrely on their engineering coursework to show them the way. Students seldom connect