Mentoring
Mentoring is one of the SWE core values. SWE members can take advantage of many mentoring opportunities at conferences and through various mentoring programs. Keep reading to find out more about how you can participate.
The Mentoring Facilitation Work Group (MFWG) is part of the Membership Committee. Participation in this group is open to anyone, both professional and collegiate SWE members, with interest in mentoring
Goal: To ensure that SWE has global, coordinated and harmonized mentoring programs
Objectives:
- Share Best Practices and Lessons Learned
- Increase visibility to existing effective Mentoring Groups
- Facilitate Mentoring Group creation for Society members
Mentoring Tools from SWE Advance
On-demand web sessions:
- Best Practices for Being a Super Mentor
- Best Practices for Finding and Keeping a Mentor
- Attract Advocacy of Influential Sponsors
- Intersectionality and Women of Color in the Engineering Workplace
- Learning to Love Criticism and Navigate Feedback
- Building Rapport: The Lost Art and Science of Effective Workplace Relationship
eLearning courses
Blog Posts
- 3 Ways to Earn the Backing of Influential Career Advocates
- Getting Girls into Robotics
- Building a Career Path as an Engineer
- Engineer Stays on Course With Help From Mentors
- How I Went From a Single Mom to an Engineer: Living the American Dream
- Carina Hahn on Her Life as Both Mentor & Mentee
- Physicist Olivia Castellini Talks About Mentoring
- Mentoring Matters: My Reflections on Being a SWE Speed Networking Mentor
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Podcasts
Tools from the SWE Mentoring Workgroup
- See this list of mentoring groups here that SWE members can participate in.
- SWE itself is a resource to find mentors – local sections, conferences, etc.
- The SWE Mentoring Facebook group is a good way to connect with other SWE mentors/mentees, and learn about SWE mentoring programs/resources
- This is a closed group so SWE members are encouraged to participate actively and consider it a safe space to mentor each other and share best practices.
- Resource: Ways to Find Mentors
- Resource: Setting Mentoring Program Expectations: See the attached mentorship contract to sign with your mentor/mentee at the beginning of your mentoring.
- Other mentoring groups at SWE:
- GradSWE Mentoring http://gradswe.swe.org/mentoring.html
- SWE affinity groups https://swe.org/membership/affinity-groups/
Mentoring Articles from SWE Magazine
Winter 2020
State of Women in Engineering 2019
- What Motivates Men to Champion Gender Diversity?
- The Role of Culture and Women’s Persistence in Engineering: A Bi-Continent Roundtable Discussion
Winter 2019
State of Women in Engineering 2018
- Understanding the Early Career Experiences of Women of Color
- Then and Now: Women Engineers’ Perspectives on Changes and Challenges in the Field Since the 1970s
Spring 2018
Conference 2017
Conference 2016
Spring 2013
Conference 2012
See this list of mentoring groups here that SWE members can participate in.
More mentoring groups to be listed soon.
Please fill out the below contact form if you would like us to share your mentoring program.
SWE Mentoring Programs Contact Form
Attention all SWE mentoring program Point of Contacts (POCs): Are you a host of an existing SWE Mentoring Group who would like to make your group visible to SWE members? Please fill out this google form so that we can publish this information on the SWE Mentoring Webpage.
SWE Mentoring Programs Contact Form
Attention all SWE mentoring program Point of Contacts (POCs): Are you a host of an existing SWE Mentoring Group who would like to make your group visible to SWE members? Please fill out this google form so that we can publish this information on the SWE Mentoring Webpage.
Looking for mentoring resources? Contact us at mentoring@swe.org or mentoring.swe@gmail.com
Join the conversation on our facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/swementoring/
Mentoring Leadership
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