Conference Session

DSAI Technical Session 4: Workshops, Professional Development, and Training

Collection

2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

yilin zhang, University of Florida; Bruce F. Carroll, University of Florida; Jinnie Shin, University of Florida; Kent J. Crippen, University of Florida

Tagged Divisions

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) Constituent Committee

face challenging coursework and professional developmentrequirements, peer mentors serve as invaluable guides who can relate to and support their peersthrough shared experiences. A comprehensive review of undergraduate mentoring programs hasdemonstrated that well-structured peer mentoring initiatives consistently yield positive outcomesacross multiple domains [1]. In engineering education, these benefits include enhanced academicperformance, strengthened leadership development, formation of engineering identity, and moreeffective career planning [2]. This peer-to-peer support system has proven particularly effective inhelping students transition through different stages of their engineering education, fromfoundational courses to specialized