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Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Engineering

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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

Student Division Technical Session 3

Tagged Division

Student

Tagged Topic

Diversity

Page Count

7

DOI

10.18260/1-2--34968

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https://peer.asee.org/34968

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600

Paper Authors

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Jayanta K. Banerjee University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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Jayanta Banerjee is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez campus. Dr. Banerjee received Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo and M.Ed. from Queen's University, both in Canada. He has worked in industries and taught at the universities in Germany, Canada, USA and Latin America. He has over hundred publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings and a few books to his credit. Jayanta is a member of ASEE, ASME and VDI (Germany).

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Abstract

Qualitative research methods, such as interviews, surveys, field notes, phone calls, etc. were applied to study both faculty and peer mentoring at the undergraduate level in several engineering departments. Both small and large departments were considered. The results show that there is no universal rule for effective mentoring. Size of the school, human and material resources, such as student/instructor ratio, total years of the undergraduate program as well as the local culture (in this case Spanish speaking Puerto Rico and five-year Bachelor degree) are some of the factors that govern effective mentoring. Some schools in the mainland USA are compared with those of Puerto Rico.

Banerjee, J. K. (2020, June), Mentoring Undergraduate Students in Engineering Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--34968

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