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Mentoring Engineering Students: Turning Pebbles into Diamonds *
Author(s) -
Vesilind P. Aarne
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2001.tb00620.x
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , psychology , pedagogy , engineering education , mathematics education , engineering , engineering management , mechanical engineering
Mentoring differs from advising in that a personal relationship is established between the student and the professor, and this relationship may last for many years after the student's graduation. Very often it is difficult to define both what mentoring is and how a professor can become a good mentor to students. This paper describes some attributes of mentoring and suggests how one might become a good mentor to students.