• DocumentCode
    2749305
  • Title

    Effectiveness of a peer mentoring program in engineering education

  • Author

    Tobajas, Félix ; De Armas, Valentín ; Morales, Asunción

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Electronic Engineering and Automatic (DIEA), University Of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    14-16 April 2010
  • Firstpage
    1395
  • Lastpage
    1400
  • Abstract
    The Mentoring Program of the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación (ETSIT) is intended to establish a mechanism based on peer mentoring provided by upper-class students (Mentors) to provide help, support, and resources to incoming first-year students (Mentees). This paper focuses on the experience gained in the creation and development of the ETSIT Mentoring Program during five years. The evolution of the results obtained from the evaluation of various aspects of the ETSIT Mentoring Program, is also presented.
  • Keywords
    Educational institutions; Educational programs; Employee welfare; Engineering education; Engineering students; Feedback; Logistics; Technological innovation; Telecommunications; engineering education; engineering student retention; peer mentoring;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Madrid, Spain
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6568-2
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-6570-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492365
  • Filename
    5492365
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2749305