Title :
PATU: A mentoring program for freshmen
Author :
Conejero, J. Alberto ; García-Félix, Eloína ; Vendrell, Eduardo ; Vivancos, Victoria
Author_Institution :
ETS Ing. Inf., Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Abstract :
In order to avoid the gap between the post-compulsory secondary education and the University, the PATU program has been conducted at the UPV. Every freshman has a teacher as an academic advisor and a sophomore as an “older brother”. Students have evaluated the program as useful and interesting, and in addition, the ones following this action have a better academic performance during their first year.
Keywords :
educational institutions; further education; management education; PATU mentoring program; Universidad Politecnica de Valencia; higher education; management education; post-compulsory secondary education; university mentoring plan; Conferences; Context; Educational institutions; Employee welfare; Engineering education; Nominations and elections; first year programs; freshmen; management education; mentoring program;
Conference_Titel :
Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Amman
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-642-2
DOI :
10.1109/EDUCON.2011.5773221
