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

MentorNet(www.MentorNet.net)成立于1997年，是一种创新的大规模电子指导战略，通过电子邮件将在学院和大学学习工程和相关科学的女性与行业中的男女专业人员配对，建立为期一年的结构化指导关系。MentorNet已发展成为一个在线社区，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系统和软件，为其成员提供结构化的一对一、小组和同行指导。在过去的五年里，MentorNet在其一对一的辅导计划中，为近1万名本科生和研究生与在行业和政府工作的电子导师牵线搭桥；它还收到了大量来自学生和教职员工的请求，要求支持学术电子导师。根据过去工作的结果、评估结果和其他研究，PI建议将MentorNet扩展为MentorNet ACE，这是一个新项目，重点是大幅完善和扩大MentorNet.的计划，以包括电子指导服务，满足寻求或追求学术科学和工程职业的女学生和未终身教职教师的需求。为此，MentorNet计划开发其一对一指导计划的专门组成部分，实现基于1)将研究生和博士后学者与终身教职员工作为导师的匹配，以及2)将非终身教职员工与终身教职员工导师匹配的一对一指导关系。MentorNet将为这一项目开发一种全面的方法，具有针对特定受保护导师群体的需求而量身定做的方案特点。

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.