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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2010.5492365
