Experiences Of Faculty Mentoring Engineering Transfer Students
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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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6
- DOI
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10.18260/1-2--40597
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https://peer.asee.org/40597
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319
Paper Authors
Deniz Nikkhah University of California, Irvine
David Copp University of California, Irvine
David A. Copp received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Arizona and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Teaching at the University of California, Irvine in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, he was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories and an adjunct faculty member in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. His broad research interests include engineering education, as well as control and optimization of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power and energy systems, multi-agent systems, robotics, and biomedicine. He is a recipient of UCSB's Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation Best PhD Thesis award and a UCI Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentorship.
Kameryn Denaro
Dr. Kameryn Denaro is a Research Specialist at the Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation at University of California Irvine. Her research interests are in STEM education, equity and inclusion, and student success.
Natascha Buswell University of California, Irvine
Natascha Trellinger Buswell is an assistant professor of teaching in the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her B.S. in aerospace engineering at Syracuse University and her Ph.D. in engineering education in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She is particularly interested in inclusive teaching conceptions and methods and graduate level engineering education.
Gregory Diggs-Yang University of California, Irvine
Hye Rin Lee
Lorenzo Valdevit
Anna-Lena Dicke University of California, Irvine
Abstract
In this work in progress (WIP), we investigated the benefits that faculty members gained from mentoring undergraduate students in a National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) funded program. This particular NSF S-STEM program aims to support low-income, transfer students pursuing their baccalaureate of science degree in engineering fields. One component of the S-STEM program is to mentor these students through their degree completion. To study the mentoring aspect of this program, we performed one-on-one interviews with S-STEM faculty mentors and asked questions that were divided into four subcategories related to: (1) how the mentors’ identity and past experiences shaped their mentor-mentee interactions; (2) how diversity and equity factors influenced their mentor-mentee interactions; (3) what strategies they used to become successful mentors; and (4) what personal and professional outcomes the S-STEM mentors obtained from their mentoring interactions. Through qualitative coding and thematic analysis of these interview responses, we identified important characteristics and approaches mentors used to build effective mentor-mentee relationships, and benefits and skills that faculty mentors developed through these interactions. This work in progress will be presented as a lighting talk on the ASEE conference platform.
Nikkhah, D., & Copp, D., & Denaro, K., & Buswell, N., & Diggs-Yang, G., & Lee, H. R., & Valdevit, L., & Dicke, A. (2022, August), Experiences Of Faculty Mentoring Engineering Transfer Students Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40597
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