Welcome to ACADEME Mentor
ACADEME is a national mentoring hub dedicated to lead to better prepared engineering academics. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Broadening Participation in Engineering (BPE) Track 4 Mentoring Hub program, ACADEME supports doctoral students, postdoctoral scholars, and early-career researchers as they prepare for and transition into academic careers.
What is Mentoring?
In developing the ACADEME mentoring HUB the team thought a lot about what people consider mentoring to be. Mentoring can be different based on the definition someone associates with it. This can be further complicated by the fact that what is expected or needed can also change based on what stage of your career you are in. As faculty with careers based in science, engineering and research, the first step was to have everyone on the same page as to what we mean by mentoring. To do that we turned to reputable literature for the initial definitions before finalizing what we meant by ‘mentoring.’ Shown below are the most common terms associated with mentoring in engineering.
