ADVANCE Leadership Award: MentorNet ACE: Academic Career E-Mentoring for Women in Science and Engineering

MentorNet （www.MentorNet.net）成立于1997年，作为一项创新的大规模电子指导战略，它将在学院和大学学习工程及相关科学的女性与工业界的男女专业人士配对，通过电子邮件建立为期一年的结构化指导关系。MentorNet已经成长为一个在线社区，利用其广泛的网站、电子邮件和其他电子通信技术以及相关的系统和软件，为其成员大规模提供结构化的一对一、小组和同伴指导。在过去的五年里，MentorNet通过其一对一的指导项目，为近1万名本科生和研究生找到了在工业界和政府工作的电子导师；它还收到了来自学生和教师的许多要求，要求支持学术电子指导。基于过去的工作成果、评估结果和其他研究，PI建议将MentorNet扩展为MentorNet ACE，这是一个专注于大幅改进和扩展MentorNet的新项目。包括电子指导服务，解决寻求或追求学术科学和工程职业的女学生和非终身教职员工的需求。为此，MentorNet计划开发其一对一指导计划的专门组成部分，使一对一的指导关系建立在以下基础上：1)将研究生和博士后学者与终身教职员工作为导师配对；2)将非终身教职员工与终身教职员工导师配对。MentorNet将为该项目开发一种综合方法，并根据特定门徒-导师群体的需求量身定制程序功能。

MentorNet (www.MentorNet.net) was founded in 1997 as an innovative large-scale electronic mentoring strategy, pairing women studying engineering and related sciences at colleges and universities with female and male professionals in industry for yearlong, structured mentoring relationships, conducted via email. MentorNet has grown into an online community, leveraging its extensive web site, email, and other electronic communications technologies and related systems and software to offer structured one-on-one, group and peer mentoring for its members on a large scale. Over the last five years, MentorNet has matched nearly 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students with e-mentors working in industry and government in its One-on-One mentoring program; it has also received numerous requests from both students and faculty to support academic e-mentoring. Based on results of past work, evaluation findings and other research, the PI proposes to expand MentorNet into MentorNet ACE, a new project focused on substantially refining and expanding MentorNet.s programs to include e-mentoring services addressing the needs of women students and untenured faculty seeking or pursuing academic science and engineering careers. To that end, MentorNet plans to develop specialized components of its One-on-One Mentoring Program, enabling one-on-one mentoring relationships based on 1) matching graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with tenured faculty members as mentors, and 2) matching untenured faculty with tenured faculty mentors. MentorNet will develop a comprehensive approach for this project, with programmatic features tailored to the needs of the specific protege-mentor populations.