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AESS Professional Networking & Mentoring Program

AESS Professional Networking & Mentoring Program. AESS Officers Strategic Planning Meeting February 9, 2019 Miami, FL. Fabiola Colone Networking & Mentoring Chair, AESS. Strategic Objectives.

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AESS Professional Networking & Mentoring Program

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  1. AESS Professional Networking & Mentoring Program AESS Officers Strategic Planning Meeting February 9, 2019 Miami, FL Fabiola Colone Networking & Mentoring Chair, AESS

  2. Strategic Objectives • The overall objective of the AESS Mentoring Program is to create active engagement and collaboration between experienced members and our younger AESS members. • The program was launched on January 1, 2017 with around 80 mentors. Our focused strategy moving forward is to continue to add quality mentors, but focus mainly on showing value to and signing up mentees. • These objectives not only provide value to our existing members, but may be relevant to the following goals of Member Services: • (5) Grow AESS membership by 1% per year. • (8) Recruit student members to full membership upon graduation. • (9) Offer assistance to members for elevating to the next grade.

  3. Mentoring Program statistics • 92 Mentors (+3 in ‘waiting’ status since last BoGmeeting) • Mentees: 63 55 Registered Waiting Deleted Matched 49 37 29 26 25 24 23 20 23 19 16 14 13 13 11 11 9 9 8 7 4 May, 2017 Feb, 2019 Jun, 2018 Sept, 2018 Sept, 2017 Apr, 2018 Jan, 2018 Jan, 2017 +8 new registrationssince the last BoG meeting +38 sinceJanuary 2018 The Program continues to grow!

  4. Mentoring Program statistics Geographicdistribution of mentees 2017 2018 2019

  5. Weaknesses of the Program • Friendliness: Some of the strategiesweadopt to reach out to potentialmentees are «impersonal». However, initiativesconsidering a personal engagement havebeenverified to be the mosteffective. • Effectiveness: We do not monitor mentor/menteepairs. However some of them are likely to becomeinactiveafter a while. • Publicity: Initiativesgivingprominence to the success of the program are occasional. • Timeliness: The process from the initial registration to the mentor/mentee match could be slow thus possibly causing a drop in enthusiasm.

  6. Mentoring Program – Objective #1Reinforce recruitment strategies Increase in number and extent the initiatives implementing recruiting strategies that consider a personal engagement: • Targeted recruitment at major AESS conferences (booths and dedicated events) • Advertising in AESS Publications, including testimonials • Engagement of AESS BoG / Mentors / Chapters / Panels / MP Committee • Exploiting synergic interactions with other activities running in AESS, especially Education initiatives (DLs)

  7. Mentoring Program – Objective #2Stimulate Mentors/Mentee communications Ask Mentors to act as liaison between AESS and Mentees by forwarding messages that could be of interest to them: • New initiatives focused on young members • Award nomination deadlines • Conferences/Journal Special Issues deadlines • Job opportunities Mentors have discretion in identifying the most relevant messages for his/her Mentee.

  8. Mentoring Program – Objective #3Best Mentee of the Year Award Investigate appropriate process to establish an annual award for the best mentee: • Mentorscould be the nominators. • Selection to be based on Mentor’scommentsaswellas on documented AESS relatedactivities + short video? • The award could be linked with (or leverage) the IEEE AESS Engineering Scholarship Program (how many applications per year?) • The selectedMenteecouldreceive a nominalprize (free registration to conferences, free tutorial) • Prominenceshould be thengiven to the recipient (e.g. article in the QEB)

  9. Mentoring Program – Objective #4Article on Mentoring in the Magazine Consider an article on mentoring for the magazine. This article should be less about the program and more about mentoring per se. Ideally, it should be the type of article a member will put in front of a student or YP he or she cares about professionally and says “you might like to read this”.

  10. Mentoring Program – Objective #5Program administration Administer the program in a structured and organized manner: • weekly monitoring of new online registrations, establishing appropriate communication • close contact with participants and perspective participants by offering assistance at different stages • check mentors profiles and try to complete with a list of keywords and topics of interest Perhaps someone on the Mentoring Program Committee could support Jane on a continuous basis.

  11. Committee Members Jane Buckingham Fabiola Colone Francesca Filippini Fredrik Gustafsson Sean Malek Kameron Lacalli Lorenzo Lo Monte …and invaluable help offered by Ethan Lin Michael Noble Walter Downing

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