Online Modules to Develop Upper-classmen Mentors for an Introductory Biomedical Engineering Course

The Effective Teaching and Management of Engineering Teams (ETMET) course provides biomedical engineering (BME) undergraduate students with the opportunity to mentor first-year BME students as lab managers in our introductory course, Biomedical Engineering & Design (BMED).Their role is integral, as BMED is a team-based, flipped, active-learning course.The lab managers mentor the firstyear students on how to obtain and analyze data, present information in written reports and oral presentations, and divide group projects into manageable tasks to meet deadlines.Thus, the topics of conflict management, design of assessments, ethics, group development, peer review, public speaking, and technical communication are essential for lab managers to be successful mentors.We created seven three-to-five-minute videos to teach ETMET students about each of the previously mentioned topics throughout the semester and plan to test their efficacy next fall.We will first administer a baseline quiz at the beginning of the semester and then an end-of-semester quiz to assess the lab managers' understanding of the topics presented.We will follow up with a post-semester survey with two to three questions for each module.Students will rank their confidence using a Likert scale of 1-5, with 1 representing "Strongly Disagree" and 5 representing "Strongly Agree."Differences between pre-and post-modules will be assessed with Wilcoxon paired t-tests.Based on the data analysis and survey results, we can assess if these modules aided ETMET students in being better mentors to students in BMED and provided the necessary skills to navigate their engineering education as members of future engineering teams.