Graduate Students Mentors in REU Sites

نویسندگان

  • Cesar D. Guerrero
  • Miguel A. Labrador
  • Rafael A. Pérez
چکیده

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation is designed to provide summer academic experiences for undergraduate students through participation in research. Although students are paired with faculty mentors to work on a research project, many times graduate students are highly involved in the mentoring process. In this paper, we evaluate the role of graduate students as undergraduate mentors, and its impact on the students, faculty and the objectives of the REU program in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. Moreover, we provide some guidelines and suggestions to make this role a powerful opportunity for each of the parties involved in the program. Our results indicate that graduate student mentors contribute to the achievement of the REU program’s goals, and that the mentoring experience is beneficial to undergraduate and graduate students and faculty. Finally, we also present some disadvantages and improvements to this approach.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007