The Sloan Engineering Mentoring Program (SEMP) is a newly created program designed to enhance academic success by facilitating opportunities that will increase first-year undergraduate student access to and inclusion in academic and professional resources. Join the Sloan Engineering Mentoring Program and you will be choosing to participate in an exciting first-year opportunity.
With the employment outlook for engineers brighter than ever, this is an exciting time to consider a career in engineering. The Sloan Engineering Mentoring Program provides a bridge from promising students like you to mentors who can share valuable information about engineering courses and careers.
WHO Can Participate
SEMP is a unique program offered through the undergraduate programming division of the Diversity Affairs Office (DAO) at the UW-Madison College of Engineering (COE). SEMP has been created in collaboration with Angela Byars-Winston, Ph.D., the Project Director of the Sloan Project for Diversity in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) Retention.
Sloan Project and DAO designed the Sloan Engineering Mentoring Program specifically for racial/ethnic minority females and males who have historically been under-represented in engineering higher education and careers. SEMP is being offered specifically to first-year undergraduate ALANA students: African Americans, Latina(o)s, Southeast Asian Americans (Hmong/ Cambodian/ Laotian/ Vietnamese), and Native Americans/ Alaska Natives.
BENEFITS of Mentoring
Access. As a SEMP mentee, you will have access to College of Engineering (COE) people and resources. For example, SEMP mentees are also invited to participate in Tutoring by Success, which is offered by Engineering Student Services’ supplemental instruction team. We will keep the SEMP website up to date with special events and key COE happenings.
Inclusion. You will be teamed up with a small mentoring group that will include new students, returning students who know their way around COE — and the rest of campus — and a faculty/staff mentor. The faculty/staff and peer mentors will share their own academic and professional stories — while also encouraging you and supporting your journey. Your mentoring team will connect outside of COE three times per semester.
Success. Mentoring meetings will give you the opportunity to hear what has helped COE faculty, staff, and students succeed academically and professionally. To enhance your success, the mentoring meetings will consist of discussions and activities that will invite mentoring team members to explore past achievements, future goals, role models, and constructive thinking.
