Building Effective Mentoring Relationships: Advancement of Mentoring Practice Program for Engineering Faculty Advisors and Doctoral Student Advisees
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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22
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--41156
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https://peer.asee.org/41156
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561
Paper Authors
Ha Pho University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ha Pho currently works as the program director of the Public Health Informatics and Technology (PHIT) Workforce Development program, at University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell). This is a $3million federal funded program to create and train undergraduate and graduate students in PHIT. Previously, Ha helped design, develop and implement the DifferenceMaker program, a campus-wide student entrepreneurship initiative at UMass Lowell for eight years. At the DifferenceMaker, she co-created and managed its Mentor program. She is also an adjunct faculty at the Manning School of Business, UMass Lowell.
Prior to joining UMass Lowell, Ha worked for The World Bank in Vietnam for ten years. Her experience included assisting small and medium enterprises to raise financial capitals and to acquire technical consulting services, as well as managing projects on capacity building to industry clusters. She also spent two years working as a project manager for Saigon Securities Inc., the largest Vietnamese securities and investment firm.
She has a B.A. in English from Vietnam National University and an MBA from UMass Lowell. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. in Research and Program Evaluation at the School of Education, UMass Lowell.
Hsien-yuan Hsu University of Massachusetts Lowell
Yanfen Li University of Massachusetts Lowell
Yanfen Li is an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She received her PhD in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Her current research is in engineering education with a focus on curriculum development and retention of female and minority students in engineering.
Shanna Thompson University of Massachusetts Lowell
Abstract
Faculty mentoring plays an important role in the success and persistence of doctoral students, especially minority students. Students who are effectively mentored by their advisors are inclined to experience a low risk of anxiety and depression; considered improvement of their research skills and productivity; and relative ease of transitioning from the course-taker to independent researcher stage. However, not all faculty advisors are equipped with effective mentoring skills. This paper aims to present and promote an innovative mentor training program, namely the Advance of Mentoring Practice Program (AMPP). In AMPP, faculty advisors and Ph.D. student advisees engage in concurrent training series with built-in feedback loops to enhance their communication skills and improve mentoring relationships. During the 2021 fall semester, a pilot study was conducted with faculty advisors of mechanical engineering and their first-year doctoral advisees in a suburban public university. In addition, formative and summative evaluations were applied to assess the quality of the AMPP and generate feedback for the program refinement. This paper presents the rationale for the design of AMPP’s training activities and summarizes the primary evaluation findings.
Pho, H., & Hsu, H., & Li, Y., & Thompson, S. (2022, August), Building Effective Mentoring Relationships: Advancement of Mentoring Practice Program for Engineering Faculty Advisors and Doctoral Student Advisees Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41156
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