Conference Session

Graduate Student Experience

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet Y Tsai, University of Colorado at Boulder; Daria A Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Virginia Lea Ferguson, Mechanical Engineering; University of Colorado; Boulder, CO; Alyssa Nicole Berg, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies, Student

. Page 23.146.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Am I a Boss or a Coach? Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduates in ResearchAbstractYOU’RE@CU is a mentoring program in which graduate students are paired with 1st or 2nd yearundergraduate engineering students to conduct research is now entering its third year ofoperation at The University of Colorado Boulder. The undergraduate mentees benefit fromexposure to a research community and the process of doing cutting-edge engineering research,while the graduate student mentors benefit from the experience of being a mentor, defining aproject and guiding a novice engineer through the ups and downs of doing research