Keyvani Someh, L., & O'Connell, B. P., & Schulte Grahame, K., & Levi, J., & Hansberry, W. E., & Swami, V. (2020, June), Friendly Mentor or Former Consultant: Peer Mentors in First-Year Engineering Courses  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34691

\bibitem{asee_peer_34691}
  Keyvani Someh, L., \& O'Connell, B. P., \& Schulte Grahame, K., \& Levi, J., \& Hansberry, W. E., \& Swami, V. (2020, June), \emph{Friendly Mentor or Former Consultant: Peer Mentors in First-Year Engineering Courses}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--34691

Leila Keyvani Someh, Brian Patrick O'Connell, Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Jake Levi, Whitney Elise Hansberry, and Vishrudan Swami.  "Friendly Mentor or Former Consultant: Peer Mentors in First-Year Engineering Courses".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/34691 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_34691}
  Leila Keyvani Someh, Brian Patrick O'Connell, Kathryn Schulte Grahame, Jake Levi, Whitney Elise Hansberry, and Vishrudan Swami.
  "Friendly Mentor or Former Consultant: Peer Mentors in First-Year Engineering Courses".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/34691 Internet.  11 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This complete evidence-based practice paper describes the two different peer-mentor techniques used in the project-based first-year Cornerstone of Engineering Courses at Northeastern University.  In this work, ‘peer-mentors’ are defined to be undergraduate students who have recently - defined in this study as within the last five years - completed the course they are mentoring for and who serve as advisors and assist current students with the final project that is required for the course.  In the first technique, the peer-mentors were required to serve as consultants during in-class group presentations. In this method, there were no assigned out of class interactions between the peer-mentors and the students. The second method required individual meet-time with the peer-mentors outside of the class. There were fewer in-class interactions between the peer-mentors and the students in this technique since peer-mentors were not obligated to attend all milestones. 
Specifically, we examined how peer-mentoring between students with little difference in age (all students are undergraduates) can improve the learning process as well as the transition from high school to university; if the use of a peer-mentor as a consultant on projects is more beneficial than just as a guide; and if requiring individual meet time instead of having peer-mentors in the classroom makes a difference to the perceived performance of the students.
The effectiveness of both techniques was assessed by evaluating the results of an online survey sent out to former students of the courses.  The methods utilized here confirm that mentoring makes for better perceived student performance and further details the effectiveness of each of the techniques in forming a better relationship between mentor and student.

AU  - Leila Keyvani Someh
AU  - Brian Patrick O'Connell
AU  - Kathryn Schulte Grahame
AU  - Jake Levi
AU  - Whitney Elise Hansberry
AU  - Vishrudan Swami
CY  - Virtual On line 
DA  - 2020/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Friendly Mentor or Former Consultant: Peer Mentors in First-Year Engineering Courses
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