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Mentors Needed for IEEE Mentoring Connection Program |
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The IEEE Mentoring Connection is looking for “online” mentors to help guide younger IEEE professionals in career planning and professional development. Currently, 989 mentees, but only 440 mentors have registered to participate. Mentor participation is open to all IEEE members above the grade of Student Member. Shortly, we will be inviting Graduate Student Members to join the program. These members have graduated with their first professional degree and are presently in a graduate program (Masters, MBA, PhD, etc.). We will need additional mentors in the program to handle the requests from this new group. We need you! Presently our mentors represent positions in academia including Associate Dean and Professor. Various Industry positions are represented by Director of Engineering, Senior Sales Engineer, Project Manager, Corporate Owner, Consultant, R&D Technical Manager, Licensing Manager, Division Manager – Control Systems, Electrical Engineer, Vice President Research, Director – Customer Operations, Computer Scientist – Branch Chief, Senior Product Development Engineer, Design Engineer – Power and Retired.
If you have received an invitation to join the program and been thinking about it, now is the time to join. If you have already signed in as a mentor – thank you for participating. Gary Hinkle, a mentor in the program, says “Helping young engineers develop in their careers is very rewarding. Working with some of these individuals has proven to be quite a challenge, because of the diversity among those seeking mentors. I’m glad to be contributing to this program.” Interested members can visit http://www.ieee.org/mentoring for information on the roles and responsibilities of each mentoring partner, including additional program information and an FAQ page. Potential mentors are asked to review the time and effort commitment to the program necessary to ensure a successful mentoring partnership. To enter the program website, please go to http://www.mentoringconnection.com and use the IEEE Group ID “IEEE2006” to enter for the first time. Once in, you will need to set your own User ID and Password. |
