What are the benefits of mentoring a student?
Mentoring gives you the extraordinary opportunity to facilitate a student’s personal and professional growth by sharing your knowledge learned through years of experience. While the primary intent of the mentor’s role is to challenge the student to think in new and different ways, the student is not the only one who gains from the arrangement. You can benefit as a mentor by enhancing your coaching and leadership skills by working with students from different backgrounds and with different personality types. Another benefit is that you will play an important role in developing and retaining talent for the future generations of SHPE. In your role as a mentor, not only will you contribute to a future engineer’s success in their technical career, but you will have the opportunity to grow that student to take a leadership role within SHPE and take our organization to another level, thereby creating a legacy that has a lasting impact. Not only will you gain the satisfaction of helping develo
