Engineering students' visual metaphors for mentorship: Implications for the candidacy period

Zach Simpson; Nickey Janse Van Rensburg; Dalien Rene Benecke

doi:10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7942851

Engineering students' visual metaphors for mentorship: Implications for the candidacy period

Zach Simpson, Nickey Janse Van Rensburg, Dalien Rene Benecke

Strategic Communication

University of Johannesburg

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Abstract

Mentorship is important to engineering activity. Yet, little attention is paid to this process within the engineering domain. This paper seeks to remedy this by analyzing the metaphors for mentorship produced by engineering students employed to work as mentors to young adults tasked with training residents in their communities regarding specific digital skills. Metaphors are used because they provide unique insight into the underlying conceptions that individuals hold about a topic or issue. The paper shows not only that metaphors are useful in garnering understanding as to how students conceive of the mentor-mentee relationship, but also that there is scope for using these understandings to provide more focused mentoring during their future candidacy period.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	219-225
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509054671
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7942851
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2017
Event	8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017 - Athens, Greece Duration: 25 Apr 2017 → 28 Apr 2017

Publication series

Name	IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON
ISSN (Print)	2165-9559
ISSN (Electronic)	2165-9567

Conference

Conference	8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	25/04/17 → 28/04/17

Keywords

Digital ambassadors
Engineering education
Mentorship
Metaphor analysis
Professional registration of engineers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Engineering
Information Systems and Management
Education

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Simpson, Z., Van Rensburg, N. J., & Benecke, D. R. (2017). Engineering students' visual metaphors for mentorship: Implications for the candidacy period. In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017 (pp. 219-225). Article 7942851 (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7942851

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Simpson, Z, Van Rensburg, NJ & Benecke, DR 2017, Engineering students' visual metaphors for mentorship: Implications for the candidacy period. in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017., 7942851, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 219-225, 8th IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017, Athens, Greece, 25/04/17. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2017.7942851

Engineering students' visual metaphors for mentorship: Implications for the candidacy period. / Simpson, Zach; Van Rensburg, Nickey Janse; Benecke, Dalien Rene.
Proceedings of 2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2017. IEEE Computer Society, 2017. p. 219-225 7942851 (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON).

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