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

[Shannon] was very cooperative throughout the semester and rightly understood the importance of the effort I am putting from busy graduate schedule…She tried hard to make up the education she was lacking for the research. Based on this I felt she was very helpful for the research and also showed the correct attitude.Generally Drake takes an evaluative tone of his mentee Shannon, as he calls her attitude“correct” and her understanding “rightly” to indicate alignment with his expectations as asupervisor. By describing her education as “lacking” and explaining the importance of his effortsin the research mentoring relationship in the context of his busy graduate student schedule, he ispositioning himself as superior to Shannon

Conference Session

Tricks of the Trade

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Univ., Daytona Beach; Stephanie Cutler, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Student

cooperative” with their interactions (Table5). As such there is a need for “mutual respect among the members” of the committee to ensurethat meetings are productive and that the dissertation work continues with the full support of thecommittee. While “diverse disciplines” was listed in the top 4 for overall committeecharacteristics, panel feedback from earlier rounds indicated a split view on having a committeewith diverse disciplines. Several participants saw the benefit in a committee with diversedisciplines as a way to refine the students’ knowledge, identify gaps and oversights in the study,and explore the research as a whole from different perspectives. This opportunity led to making