Conference Session

Research! Research! Research! in Faculty Development

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Nicole McIntyre, University of California, Berkeley; Catherine T. Amelink, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Jeffrey Bokor, University of California

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Faculty Development Division

management skills, supervisory skills, and communicationskills. Additionally, the study supports existing literature: the mentoring relationship enhancesgraduate students’ understanding of their own research [9], their mentoring and teaching skills[5], [9], and can be an enjoyable experience [5].The graduate student and postdoc participants of this study recognized that the TTE REUmentoring experience has prepared them for future careers in academia and research.Furthermore, the skills developed through the mentoring experience are important for thedevelopment of well-rounded engineering professors. The impacts explored in this study areespecially important, as the mentoring experience helped mentors develop “soft” skills that arenot easily taught