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Development of a Mentorship Program between Upper-class and First-year Engineering Students through 3-D Printing

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Virtual On line

Publication Date

June 22, 2020

Start Date

June 22, 2020

End Date

June 26, 2021

Conference Session

Design Across the Curriculum 2

Tagged Division

Design in Engineering Education

Page Count

12

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34448

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https://peer.asee.org/34448

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410

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Charlotte Marr de Vries Pennsyvania State University, Behrend College

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Dr. Charlotte de Vries is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts in 2009. She received her M.S. (2013) and Ph.D. (2014) in Mechanical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University. She teaches Introduction to Engineering Design, Capstone Design, Dynamics, System Dynamics, and Instrumentation, Measurement, and Statistics.

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Jill Johnson P.E. Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College

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Jill Johnson is an instructor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State Behrend. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Penn State Behrend in 2003 and her master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from Penn State University in 2009. Jill is a Licensed Professional Engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Jill joined the Behrend faculty full time in 2015, but she has been an adjunct at Penn State Behrend in the past. She was also an instructor in Engineering Science and Mechanical Technology at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, NY, from 2009 until 2013.

Jill started her engineering career as a commissioned Officer in the United States Navy as part of the Nuclear Propulsion Program. Subsequent to that, she was a Field Engineer for National Fuel Gas Distribution Company.

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Brian Lani

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Abstract

This work-in-progress paper describes the starting implementation of a mentorship program between senior mechanical engineering students and first year pre-major engineering students at X University. In a first year Introduction to Engineering Design course, students are asked to create a prototype for their design using 3D printing. In the first implementation of the project, only 1 team out of 12 were able to produce a successful 3D print on their first attempt. In order to increase the success of the 3D printing a mentorship program was developed between mechanical engineering students taking an additive manufacturing lab as a technical elective and first year engineering students. Prior to submitting a design for printing, the first-year student teams were required to submit it to their assigned mentor, who provided feedback on the design. In the first semester (Fall 2018), only student teams in the honors section of the Introduction to Engineering Design course were partnered with senior mentors. In the following semesters, this mentorship program takes place with all students in the first year course. In this paper we discuss lessons learned in the pilot semester along with the framework for studying the effect on the first year students and senior mentoring students and their knowledge gained.

de Vries, C. M., & Johnson, J., & Lani, B. (2020, June), Development of a Mentorship Program between Upper-class and First-year Engineering Students through 3-D Printing Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34448

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