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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

William Clark; Lisa Comparini; Anthony Dixon; David DiBiasio

. The major new features were a restructuring and spiraling ofspecific chemical engineering topics around a framework of open-ended, team-based projects. Inthe following we will refer to the group that took the new curriculum as the spiral-taught and thetraditionally taught students as the comparison. Note that "spiral-taught" is a convenient term weuse that includes all the teaching and curricular changes implemented during the project, not justthe spiral topic structure.The spiral curriculum was delivered through a variety of channels including cooperative-groupprojects, traditional lectures, homework problems, in-class active learning sessions, interactivemultimedia learning tools, and laboratory experiments. To assure individual

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2000 Annual Conference

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Robert K. Christianson; Jeffrey F. McCauley; Denny Davis; Michael S. Trevisan; Kenneth L. Gentili

the processes used in team-based engineeringdesign, and they must be able to perform these (as teams) well enough to produce designdeliverables expected by clients. In engineering programs intending to prepare graduates withthese capabilities, engineering educators must be able to define, teach, and assess studentachievement in the processes used in design.The Transferable Integrated Design Engineering Education (TIDEE) project has developeddesign definitions and assessments for the first half of engineering programs, based on inputfrom 2- and 4-year institutions across the nation. These have been used to support designeducation coordination and assessment within the state of Washington6, 7. The project definedthree dimensions of the design

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Willam G. Curley; Sohail Anwar

Session 3222 Partnering with Industry to Provide Continuing and Distance Education Programs in Engineering & Technology: A Case Study Sohail Anwar, William G. Curley Penn State AltoonaAbstractThis paper provides a description of continuing education programs developed and implementedby Penn State Altoona Office of Continuing & Distance Education for engineers and techniciansin the Central Pennsylvania region. These programs are offered in the areas of process control,CAD, project management, information technology, and quality management. The paper alsolists assessment

Conference Session

Issues in Physics and Engineering

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2002 Annual Conference

Authors

David Probst

credit hours thanmost other programs at Southeast, which might tend to reduce its competitiveness whenrecruiting majors. In order to address these concerns, we have developed a senior capstonecourse that is being reviewed for inclusion in the University Studies Program, which isSoutheast’s general education program. The course requires students from at least twodepartments in the College of Science and Mathematics to work on a project requiring expertisefrom both disciplines. This paper describes the course.I. IntroductionThe Engineering Physics Program at Southeast Missouri State University integrates a typicalphysics program and a typical electrical engineering program. The Program has a core set ofcourses and two options. The Applied

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Sean DiBartolo; Linfield Brown; Chris Swan

workers and off-site abutters), and community relations. The project also requires theteams to obtain audits by professional and/or experts in each of these areas. All solutions andrecommendations must be defensible.The contest opens at the start of the academic year and culminates in a four-day “conference” atthe NMSU campus in April. Tufts University has participated in the WERC design contest for 5of the last 6 years. Beyond its competitive aspects, the design contest serves as a valuableeducational tool in the undergraduate curriculum. For example, students are exposed to "realworld" aspects of environmental design, and learn the importance of working in multi-disciplinary teams. In addition, they are encouraged to confront the interplay

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kristen Osterwood, University of Pittsburgh; Amy E. Landis, University of Pittsburgh; Jason Douglas Monnell, University of Pittsburgh; Chris Koch, GTECH Strategies; Maureen Copeland, GTECH Strategies

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Multidisciplinary Engineering

. Monnell teaches Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Chemical Analysis. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, and the As- sociation of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors for which he serves on the Governmental Affairs Comittee.Chris Koch, GTECH Strategies Chris has worked in major cities around the country on systemic economic development projects in the private and public sectors. Her background is in the areas of Community and Economic Development, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Project Management, and Social Enterprise. Chris has provided expertise on urban blight reduction strategies and social entrepreneurship to organizations such as the Brookings Institute, Great Lakes

Conference Session

Curricular Issues in Computer-oriented Programs

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jason St. John, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas J. Hacker, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Computing & Information Technology

meansthat system administrators must potentially configure a subset of the computing nodes tobecome dual-booting systems. Once all of the nodes are operational, system administrators needto be able to control the nodes in batches, while maintaining the integrity of the systems. Evenwith shell scripts and other automation tools, this process has traditionally been tedious at best.To mitigate the problems faced with deploying clusters, a number of projects have been createdcalled “cluster kits”. These software toolkits are designed to automate a large portion of theinstallation and configuration procedures.Additionally, businesses and universities of all sizes are moving their traditional ITinfrastructures to the recently emergent technologies of

Conference Session

Sustainable Product Development and Manufacturing

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rex C. Kanu, Ball State University; Pamela Elizabeth Betz, Ball State University; Samuel Cotton, Ball State University

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Manufacturing

development that meets the needs ofthe present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own need.”3In the Manufacturing Engineering Technology program in a Midwestern University, aspects ofsustainability are incorporated into some courses at the freshman, sophomore, and junior levels.The pedagogical tools used to introduce students to sustainability in these courses includepresentations, class discussions, homework assignments, and projects. With regard to projects,some students in a junior level plastics course chose to work with a biopolymer, polylactic acid(PLA) and clay nanoparticles to make polymer-clay nanocomposites. PLA is a renewable andenvironmentally friendly raw material. Clay nanoparticles are naturally

Conference Session

Industry Collaboration in Construction Education

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Rogelio Palomera-Arias Ph. D., University of Texas at San Antonio; Craig D. Capano, Everglades University

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Construction

to the official program launching, a pilot program was tested in thesummer of 2011, with an AGC member contractor hosting a single faculty member selected froman ACCE accredited institution. The internship was designed as a three-way partnership betweenthe AGC-ERF, the faculty host institution, and the host company. The initial budget of theprogram was $30,000 funded in equal parts by the three internship partners. The internship wasfor a period of two months, and the faculty was a member of the jobsite management team at alevel similar to a project engineer or assistant project manager. This paper presents the modelfollowed for the implementation of the internship, as well as evaluates the results of the pilotprogram from the perspective of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

AC 2012-2982: TWO PREFERRED ACTIVITIES USING S-STEMDr. Mo Ahmadian, Eastern New Mexico University Mohamad H. Ahmadian is a professor of electronics engineering technology at Eastern New Mexico University. He also serves as ABET/TAC program evaluator for electronics and computer engineering technology programs. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia. Before starting his Ph.D. work, he worked three years as a project engineer. Tom Brown is a professor of computer science and the chair of the Mathematical Sciences Department at Eastern New Mexico University. He received his B.S. in mathematics education and M.S. in mathematics with an emphasis in

Conference Session

Design in Freshman and Sophomore Courses

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Suzanne W. Scott, Petroleum Institute

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Design in Engineering Education

respective cultures are vastly different. Data gathered from theobservance of culturally diverse competing teams is studied with the objective of developingcurriculum and pedagogy that will prepare our student teams for global engineering practice.In addition, the experiential value of international travel and intercultural exchange inherentin this project is significant.IntroductionBoth the STEPS Program (PI) and the EPICS Program (CSM) introduce team-basedengineering design problem solving to students in their first and second years. While thetheory, objectives, and practices of the programs are similar, the respective cultures are vastlydifferent. Recognizing the need for students to understand the global nature of modernengineering and have an

Conference Session

NSF Grantees' Poster Session

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

J.A. Ortega-Saenz, PSJA High School; Hua Li, Texas A&M University, Kingsville; Mohamed Abdelrahman, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

summer 2011 I had the opportunity to participate in the Research Experience forTeachers program at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville. This program was a total learningexperience, in which I had the opportunity to develop a high level scientific research project. Ialso got a chance to get to know ten other educators that were selected the same as I toparticipate in the program. Throughout the six weeks of the summer that this program lasted, Iwas working on a research project titled “Study of the behavior of Shape Memory Polymers inthe Active Disassembly Process” under the supervision of Dr. Hua Li. This project focused onactive disassembly using smart materials (ADSM) as an alternative, with the potential to enable abroad range of

Conference Session

Retention and Two-year to Four-year Transfer

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lori Heymans, Northern Essex Community College; Michael E. Pelletier, Northern Essex Community College; Linda A. Desjardins, Northern Essex Community College; Paul J. Chanley, Northern Essex Community College

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Two Year College Division

. The peer mentors provided feedback andsupport in specific projects and provided insight about what they had learned in these labactivities. The participants found the answers they needed to many of their questions or concernsfrom the mentors. Peer mentors discussed work experiences and/or projects with which they hadbeen involved and shared how this had impacted their career goals.Summer Bridge DescriptionAll four days of each SBP were organized around the theme of the generation of electricity fromrenewable sources and provided an introduction to engineering design and green technologywhile emphasizing the centrality of applied mathematics. Energy conservation, efficiency andcarbon footprints were also covered. Participants explored how

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Gurbax Singh; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

problems; comprehension of physical principles; engineering problemsolving and teamwork and development of communication skills.UMES mathematics, science and engineering faculty members are directly involved incurriculum development and providing the enrichment activities. Engineeringundergraduate students who are in good academic standing act as project advisors fordesign activities and software efforts integrated with the program. SEBP students alsolook up at them role models and can approach them for advise and counseling. Agraduate student in mathematics and computer sciences provides additional tutoringsupport and is also responsible for enhancement of the project website.I. IntroductionUMES is a historically black university and the 1890

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Ryan Wicker; Connie Della-Piana; Bill Diong

, Curriculumand Laboratory Improvement program to develop such a laboratory with the following expectedstudent outcomes. First, students will become adept at using common industry software packagesfor system modeling, analysis, control design and simulation. Second, students will learn how touse common industry measurement instruments as well as techniques for frequency-domainmodeling, analysis and control design purposes when working with hardware. Third, and mostimportantly, they will gain experience in using a DSP development system to implement thecontrol algorithms they have designed for the given electromechanical systems. The last item distinguishes this project from other recent similar projects that allowstudents to experiment with

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Patricia Brackin; Julia Williams

Session 2625 Teaching and Assessing Team Skills in a Senior Level Design Course Patricia Brackin, Julia Williams Rose-Hulman Institute of TechnologyABSTRACTIndustry wants to hire graduates with good teaming skills. As a result, many universities areintroducing projects that require students to work in teams. Unfortunately engineering educatorsfind it difficult to assess a student’s team skills adequately. Requiring students to work in teamsdoes not necessarily improve a student’s ability to be an effective team member. Engineeringeducators must decide what teaming skills students need

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Paul Flikkema

parts and programmed in the high-level NQC language using the Robolab RCX microcontroller module. As the semester proceeds,students tackle an array of interrelated problems that motivate the study of sensor signal process-ing, control, scheduling, and resource sharing. In a final project, the students tackle a distributedintelligence project in which an odometry-equipped robot communicates with a PC-based pro-gram that tracks the robot’s position. To encourage adoption by other electrical engineering andcomputer engineering programs, a detailed description of the required resources and their cost isincluded.IntroductionThere is no doubt that developments in microelectronics and computing technology in the last halfof this century have changed

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2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Phillip J. Cornwell; Charles Farrar

included 1) lectures on various engineering topics such as computationalstructural dynamics, experimental modal analysis, random vibrations, signal processing, etc., 2) adistinguished lecturer series in which prominent guest lecturers gave talks about cutting edgeresearch in structural dynamics, 3) field trips and 4) an eight week project having both ananalytical and an experimental component. In this paper the details of the program and of how itwas assessed will be presented.I. IntroductionOver the last 20 years there has been a 20% decline in the number of engineering degreesgranted while university degrees in general have increased approximately 20%1 . Engineeringdynamics, which encompasses areas such as flight dynamics, vibration isolation

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

Wei Lin; Sharon Cobb; Floyd Patterson; Carol Davis; Robert Pieri; G. Padmanabhan

playingfield for the discussion and allows for easy prioritizing of ideas. All discussion is simultaneousand anonymous so the discussion can move quickly and more equitably than sometimes possiblein verbal discussions. This system allowed a very detailed discussion of the project to address thecultural issues and needs of the Tribal Colleges and to determine where and how to invest theproject resources. This paper will describe the evolution of the proposal from its conception tosubmission. The description will include five sections: introduction, prior collaboration, ONRproject collaboration, Group Decision Center’s role, and the ONR proposal concept with StudentPathways, Project Management and Activity Flow Charts as submitted in the proposal

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert Heidersbach; David Gibbs; Daniel Walsh; Alan Demmons

undergraduate. It treats the solicitingand selection of projects, the development of team approaches, the analysis of failures and the synthesis of failurehypothesis. The student’s presentation of results are discussed, both written and oral. Creation of realistic mock“court-room” and “board-room” environments is treated. The use of case-study approaches in conjunction withmodern educational technology is discussed. This presentation is meant to help others develop similar courses orhelp others create “failure analysis” modules to use in existing courses.I) Introduction “O Tempora! O Mores!”The question of the character of engineering education has been examined many times in the past fifty years. Themost compelling feature of these studies is

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Safoutin; Jens Jorgensen; Joseph A. Heim; Dale E. Calkins

•Product Dissection Lab •Manufacturing Integration Center •Factory Floor Work Cells (five) Page 3.564.3 ! Figure 3: UW “Integrated Learning Factory” LayoutDesign Studio The Design Studio, Figure 4, is for use by students for design collaboration. Included area floor-to-ceiling cork working wall for use in brainstorming exercises, an overhead computerand video projector, a "Smart Board" projection screen and two whiteboards. ILF CoordinatorMike Safoutin is shown in Figure 5 demonstrating the touch-sensitive Smart Board projectionsystem. Distance

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Yousef Haik

-on-one interaction. Detailedrequirements are given in the project statement. Design groups perform limited market analysisbefore their first meeting with the instructor who acts as a consultant. Functional analysis, ideageneration and evaluation of the alternatives are done by one-on-one interaction between theconsultant and the design groups. The systematic design approach is emphasizes. Uponcompletion the selection of one design alternative, the design group performs a complete staticsand dynamics analysis of their design. Software such working model is used in the analysis.Through the three semesters where this approach was applied, students have showed higherparticipation, enhancement in their analysis skills and better understanding of

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Fathi Finaish

Session 1202 A Product Realization Exercise for Aerospace Engineering Students Fathi Finaish Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics University of Missouri-Rolla Rolla, Missouri 65401AbstractThis paper describes a product realization exercise tailored for undergraduate aerospaceengineering students. The project is a new component of a design course incorporated recentlyinto the Aerospace Engineering curriculum at the University of Missouri-Rolla offered during

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior; John R Gallagher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John S Popovics P.E., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

) supportsystem now includes a semester-long faculty learning community (FLC), individualizedmentoring, and professional development and courses for STEM teaching assistants and graduatestudents. Working as a team that includes engineering, science, and writing studies faculty,academic professionals, and graduate students, we approach the problem using atransdisciplinary action research (TDAR) framework [12], [13], simultaneously trying newinterventions and researching their effectiveness. Our interventions are co-designed and co-delivered. Our research is similarly transdisciplinary, from the data collection and analysisthrough synthesis into manuscripts and future interventions.One current project examines the effectiveness of this support system at

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ricky T Castles, East Carolina University; Chris Venters, East Carolina University

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Exploration to Develop an Engineering Identity in Low-Income StudentsAbstractEast Carolina University (ECU) was funded by a multi-institutional Track 3 S-STEM Grant#1930497 in January 2020. The funds from this grant have been used to recruit and support threecohorts of students at ECU and three partnering community colleges. The project is referred tointernally as the PIRATES project for Providing Inclusive Residential and Transfer EngineeringSupport. In addition to funding scholarships, the research aim of this project uses Lee andMatusovich’s Model of Co-Curricular Support for Undergraduate Engineering Students [1] tostudy best practices in co-curricular support for both students who start their pathway towards

Conference Session

Energy Education and Industrial Partnership Needs

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

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Energy Conversion and Conservation

LEED certification to local industry, MSU has pursuedoptions for supporting training in this area. While students are exposed to general LEEDconcepts through course and capstone design projects, as well as the annual ASHRAE StudentDesign Competition, all of the topics in Table 2 do not fit into the engineering curriculum. MSUhas partnered with local industry through grants from the State of Minnesota to developcontinuing education courses addressing HVAC, green buildings, and LEED. We have foundthat at the Green Associate level these courses are applicable to both current students andworking professionals. Excellent instructional resources exist through USGBC and in manycases a trained USGBC instructor can be obtained. Note that one

Conference Session

Evolving Engineering Libraries: Services, Spaces, and Collections

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adriana Popescu, Princeton University, Engineering Library

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Engineering Libraries

, theEngineering Library adopted the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) standard (typically usedto provide standardized, digital description of archival and manuscript collections) and applied itto create machine readable finding aids for all departmental research and technical reportscollections of the School of Engineering. The Archivists’ Toolkit (AT), an open sourceapplication, has been used to create bibliographic descriptions, to establish name and subjectentries, to manage locations and to export EAD finding aids and MARCXML records fortechnical reports collections. The project has been completed in house, using existing resources;given the increased number of requests the library received for these materials since thecompletion of the project, it

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1999 Annual Conference

Authors

Boris Butman

dedicated to a single industry theschool can better steer the program and determine the boundaries of the subjects included. Onthe other side, the already overloaded four-year program limits an in-depth exposure to somevital theoretical concepts. This paper is intended to emphasize the importance of the engineeringmanagement training in the maritime environment, and to offer practical resolutions.I. Reasons For Program DevelopmentThere is no doubt that enhanced economic and management education should improve thedecision making process on all levels of activities from global projects to routine day-to-dayoperational decisions. Another important reason for additional economic and managementtraining is to make the marine engineering program more

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2000 Annual Conference

Authors

James J. Alpigini

as education, business, or humanservices.Within this paper, the approach used to teach CSE 431: Introduction to Computer Architectureto such a diverse student background is presented. Emphasis is given to the course content andtools utilized, as well as efforts to make the course challenging for the student, regardless of thestudent’s technical level. The paper is organized as follows. First, the course objectives arepresented with a description of the challenges faced in its instruction. Next, the organization ofthe course is presented; giving emphasis to a project designed to challenge the student,regardless of his or her technical background. Software developed to assist in assemblyinstruction is next considered and then the paper

Conference Session

Capstone Design II

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2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James J. Pembridge, Virginia Tech; Marie C. Paretti, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education

. Page 22.173.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2011 An Examination of Mentoring Functions in the Capstone CourseAbstractThroughout the literature detailing projects in engineering capstone courses, researchersfrequently refer to the faculty role as that of a mentor. As such studies make clear, the role ofmentoring in capstone projects is critical to support students in the progression of the course. Yetthe concept itself remains relatively ill-defined in the engineering education literature, making itmore challenging for researchers and educators alike to identify patterns and best practicesacross contexts. Using a framework developed by Kram to characterize a variety of mentoringfunctions