WIE Undergraduates : Mentoring
What is Mentoring?
Mentoring occurs when a person who has been successful in an environment or context shares her knowledge with you to help you negotiate a similar experience. The purpose of the WIE Mentoring program is:
- Provide you with positive engineering role models
- Facilitate personal, career, and professional development
- Encourage you to continue your study in engineering
- Ease your transition, for example from high school to college or from college to the professional world
Through relationships with role models, gain the confidence and perspective necessary to be productive members of a global and multicultural workforce.
Benefits of having a mentor
- Role models for a lifetime
- Access to a new community
- Broader networks through your mentor
- Encouragement and support
- Inside knowledge of "dos" and "don'ts"
We offer two mentoring programs:
- Mentoring Teams designed for first year engineering students
- Mentor Net for undergraduate and graduate engineering and CMPS students
Mentoring Teams for First Year Engineering Students
First year female students are automatically placed on a team with 5-8 students and matched with an upper-level engineering student who is your mentor. Mentors contact you during the first week of class to introduce themselves and coordinate a meeting time.
Your mentor will assist you throughout the fall semester. You and your team will meet regularly to help you be aware of all of the opportunities that exist in engineering at UM. Your mentor is someone you can go to for assistance and to explore options and ideas.
Mentor Applications are now being accepted.
Deadline to Apply: April 25, 2008
Interviews will be held the week of May 5th.
