Please encourage your women engineering and science students to sign up
for an online mentor through MentorNet, the E-Mentoring Network for
Women in Engineering and Science. Our school has joined MentorNet for
the academic year so that you can offer this valuable service to women
students.
This is a wonderful opportunity for students to learn more about
engineering and science careers. Mentoring is an effective way to
support women students and to increase their participation in the
technical and scientific workforce, where less than 10% of the engineers
and less than 30% of the scientists are women.
You can introduce your students to MentorNet by
* sending out the "Call for Students" email message (below)
* making announcements in class
* talking about the program during office hours
* distributing MentorNet flyers, which you can download and print
--as a Word document:
http://www.mentornet.net/Documents/Files/students_poster1.doc
--or in pdf format:
http://www.mentornet.net/Documents/Files/students_poster1.pdf
Students should apply via the MentorNet web site: www.MentorNet.net
For more information, please read the "Call for Students" copied below
and visit the MentorNet web site at www.MentorNet.net.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Deborah Reid Bryant, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education
College of Computer, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
3400 A.V. Williams
University of Maryland
College Park College Park, Maryland 20742
301)405-2677 phone (301)405-9377
fax www.cmps.umd.edu