TY - JOUR
T1 - Development of a mentorship program between upper-class and first-year engineering students through 3D printing
AU - de Vries, Charlotte Marr
AU - Johnson, Jill
AU - Lani, Brian
N1 - Funding Information:
We'd like to thank the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at Penn State for funding the equipment of the project, as well as the teaching assistants and faculty who helped run the computer lab and recitation sections across the various semesters.
Publisher Copyright:
© American Society for Engineering Education 2020.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/6/22
Y1 - 2020/6/22
N2 - This work-in-progress paper describes the starting implementation of a mentorship program between senior mechanical engineering students and first-year pre-major engineering students at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. In EDSGN 100-Introduction to Engineering Design, first-year students are asked to create a prototype for their design using 3D printing. In the first implementation of the project, only 2 teams out of 12 were able to produce a successful 3D print on their first attempt. In order to increase the success of the 3D printing, a mentorship program was developed between mechanical engineering students taking an additive manufacturing lab as a technical elective and first-year engineering students. Prior to submitting a design for printing, the first-year student teams were required to submit it to their assigned mentor, who provided feedback on the design. In the first semester (fall 2018), only student teams in the honors section of the EDSGN course were partnered with senior mentors. In the following semesters, this mentorship program was offered to all students in the first-year course. Over these pilot semesters, the mentorship demonstrated a positive working relationship between freshman and seniors which taught valuable lessons on technical limitations of 3D printers and tolerancing, the importance of communication between engineering teams, and time management skills.
AB - This work-in-progress paper describes the starting implementation of a mentorship program between senior mechanical engineering students and first-year pre-major engineering students at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College. In EDSGN 100-Introduction to Engineering Design, first-year students are asked to create a prototype for their design using 3D printing. In the first implementation of the project, only 2 teams out of 12 were able to produce a successful 3D print on their first attempt. In order to increase the success of the 3D printing, a mentorship program was developed between mechanical engineering students taking an additive manufacturing lab as a technical elective and first-year engineering students. Prior to submitting a design for printing, the first-year student teams were required to submit it to their assigned mentor, who provided feedback on the design. In the first semester (fall 2018), only student teams in the honors section of the EDSGN course were partnered with senior mentors. In the following semesters, this mentorship program was offered to all students in the first-year course. Over these pilot semesters, the mentorship demonstrated a positive working relationship between freshman and seniors which taught valuable lessons on technical limitations of 3D printers and tolerancing, the importance of communication between engineering teams, and time management skills.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85095724598
SN - 2153-5965
VL - 2020-June
JO - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
JF - ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings
M1 - 492
T2 - 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference, ASEE 2020
Y2 - 22 June 2020 through 26 June 2020
ER -