Developing An Assessment Regime For Pan Mentoring In Creative Engineering Design

Stephen Ekwaro-Osire, Peter Orono
2006 Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings   unpublished
Pan-mentoring (from the Greek pan meaning all, to indicate a mentoring relationship with a team of students) is a pedagogical approach to creative engineering design education establishing a close relationship with and within design teams of students. The role of the pan-mentor consists of: helping students to effectively tap into their creativity as individuals and as teams; guiding them through the design process at both the individual and team level; and encouraging selfreflection and
more » ... ent. This paper develops and discusses an assessment regime for the three elements of pan-mentoring in creative engineering design. In the regime, student assessment, course assessment, and pan-mentor assessment are utilized. In this paper, the only data discussed is from a questionnaire (course assessment) completed by freshmen students. The results from this part of the assessment regime were favorable.
doi:10.18260/1-2--1287 fatcat:drvjrlumbfhmpcbuidqaip26fq