GradSWE & Mentoring

The GradSWE mentoring program serves as an avenue for graduate women in SWE to network with a formal mentor. Proteges and mentors both submit interest forms and are matched based on their responses.  

Roles and Expectations
Roles and expectations of the mentoring program are agreed upon between mentors and proteges. At minimum, it is expected that both parties will be respectful with each other's availability. The mentoring coordinators provide monthly topics of interest periodically to facilitate conversations between the mentor and mentee, but it is ultimately the responsibility of the mentee to start the conversations. There is no requirement from GradSWE with regard to extraordinary efforts or monetary investments to make the mentoring relationship successful.

Protege Eligibility

• Proteges must be enrolled in graduate school when they apply to the program.
• Proteges must demonstrate drive for personal development.
• Proteges must be in good standing with SWE.

Mentor Eligibility

• Mentors must demonstrate competency in a needed area of knowledge.
• Mentors can be male or female.
• Mentors can have any engineering background, but must have an engineering background.
• Mentors will preferably have a graduate degree; however, this is not a requirement.
• It is not necessary for a mentor to join SWE for the first year of participation in the program. After one year, if the individual wishes to not join SWE, existing relationships will remain but no new proteges will be assigned.

How to enroll
Both proteges and mentors can enroll in the program by submitting interest forms. Mentors are able to enroll at any time, while proteges have an open enrollment window at certain times of the year.

• Professional Mentor Sign up
• Grad Protege sign up
• Undergrad sign up

General Mentoring Information (Blog Posts)

• How to Make the Most of Your Mentoring Relationship
• Creating Your Mentoring Network

For questions or comments, please contact the mentoring coordinators at gradswementoring@gmail.com.