Kowal, M., & Landon, A. M. (2023, July), GIFTS: Leadership, Engagement And Professionalism (LEAP) Peer Mentoring Program   Paper presented at 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. 10.18260/1-2--44837

\bibitem{asee_peer_44837}
  Kowal, M., \& Landon, A. M. (2023, July), \emph{GIFTS: Leadership, Engagement And Professionalism (LEAP) Peer Mentoring Program }
  Paper presented at 14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee.
  10.18260/1-2--44837

Marsha Kowal and Alexandra Maley Landon.  "GIFTS: Leadership, Engagement And Professionalism (LEAP) Peer Mentoring Program ".  14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://strategy.asee.org/44837 Internet.  13 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_44837}
  Marsha Kowal and Alexandra Maley Landon.
  "GIFTS: Leadership, Engagement And Professionalism (LEAP) Peer Mentoring Program ".
  \emph{14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2023, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://strategy.asee.org/44837 Internet.  13 May, 2024

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author = "Marsha Kowal and Alexandra Maley Landon"
title = "GIFTS: Leadership, Engagement And Professionalism (LEAP) Peer Mentoring Program "
booktitle = "14th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience (FYEE) Conference"
year = "2023"
month = "July"
address = "University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee"
publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
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number = {10.18260/1-2--44837}
}

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - We developed a semester-long peer mentoring program within Honors Engineering that matches freshman women with a same-major, female mentor in their junior year. Now in its second year, our program aims to improve retention and student success within Honors Engineering by fostering an engineering identity and building community. The LEAP program has a layered leadership approach where two student directors (themselves a mentor/mentee pair) co-organize the program under the guidance of faculty advisors. Mentors and mentees meet weekly as a cohort for structured professional development workshops that are relevant to both early and late-career students. Workshop topics were selected from student focus groups and representative topics include time management, LinkedIn, resumes, negotiation, career fairs, interviewing, and alumna panels. Each mentor/mentee pair also meets one-on-one three times a semester for unstructured mentoring. LEAP hosts social events where both current and past LEAP students are invited to encourage networking and community building across cohorts. We believe that mentoring is one approach to cost-effective professional development; therefore, we plan to expand our program to all first-year students in the Honors Engineering Program. 
AU  - Marsha Kowal
AU  - Alexandra Maley Landon
CY  - University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee
DA  - 2023/07/30
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - GIFTS: Leadership, Engagement And Professionalism (LEAP) Peer Mentoring Program 
UR  - https://strategy.asee.org/44837
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