Nomination of Dr. Sara Wadia-Fascetti, Northeastern University

Sara Wadia-Fascetti博士是东北大学土木工程副教授，自1994年以来一直担任本科和研究生男女工程专业学生的导师。她开发了电子指导计划，为学生提供一种与导师和学员在会议间隙进行沟通的机制。该项目将女性大学预科生、大学生和专业人士与另外两到五名女性联系在一起。专业女性是从工程学院校友和当地公司中招聘的。瓦迪亚-法西蒂还创建了一个名为Connections的项目，每周为波士顿女孩提供课外活动，包括为初高中女孩开设的电脑俱乐部，让她们与大学女生一起工作；为女高中生开设的“大学入门”系列课程，让她们了解高等教育体系的运作方式；以及为大学女生开设的其他一些项目。

Dr. Sara Wadia-Fascetti is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Northeastern University, and has served as a mentor to undergraduate and graduate female and male engineering students since 1994. She developed the e-mentoring program to give students a mechanism for communication with their mentors and mentees between meetings. The program links female pre-college students, college students, and professionals in discussion groups with two to five additional women. Professional women are recruited from the college of Engineering alumni as well as local companies.Dr. Wadia-Fascetti has also created a program, Connections, that offers weekly after-school activities for Boston girls, including a computer clubhouse for middle- and high-school girls to work alongside college women, an "introduction to college" series for female high-school students so they learn how the higher education system works, and a number of other programs for college women.