Join the SWE community to celebrate National Mentoring Month this year as we recognize the power of mentorship and its role in advancing women in engineering.
At SWE, mentoring opportunities are available at conferences and other live events and through the SWE Mentor Network, an exclusive members-only community for sharing experiences, cultivating connections, and providing guidance for both mentors and mentees to support career growth and development.
Additionally, check out this curated list of SWE’s top blog posts, podcast episodes, magazine articles, and online courses.
Diverse: A SWE Podcast
- Ep 314: Mindset, Mentorship, and Meaning in STEM: Jayshree Seth, Ph.D., corporate scientist and chief science advocate at 3M, shares how her The Heart of Science book trilogy provides a blueprint for a purposeful STEM journey at any career stage and why we need to redefine the concept of mentorship.
- Ep 299: Leading with Purpose: Navigating the Leap to Senior Roles: Past SWE Presidents Stacey DelVecchio and Colleen Scholl explore their journeys into senior management, providing insights on mentorship, senior-level interviews, adapting communication styles, and redefining work-life balance.
- Ep 243: Starting and Navigating Jobs as an Early Career Engineer: Listen to a mentoring session with Jenni Johnson from the Early Career Professionals Affinity Group and her real-life mentor Liz San Miguel from the Mid-Career Professionals Affinity Group, where they discuss why having a mentor can be life changing.
All Together Blog
- Mentoring Women in STEM: Why One-Size-Fits-All Doesn’t Work: Rebeca Petean, Ph.D., from the SWE Research team shares new research, which reveals that the mentoring process provides a gateway to visibility, belonging, and career advancement.
- The Role of Mentorship in Closing Global Gender Gaps: Global mentoring programs show that when women and girls connect with role models via mentorships, persistence rises, identity strengthens, and pathways into STEM careers open wider.
- Empowering Latinas Engineers: The Power of Mentoring and Networking: Isabel Peñaloza Araujo from the Latinos Affinity Group discusses the importance of connection in empowering engineers and the role networking and mentorship play.
SWE Magazine
- The Community College Connection: Read about the crucial role community colleges play in STEM education and some of the best globally applicable mentoring practices aimed at increasing the representation of women in STEM studies.
- What Drives Men to Become Allies: Regardless of society’s ever-shifting views on gender roles, what motivates men to support, promote, and advocate for women who pursue STEM careers? Read this Spring 2025 article to learn more.
- Many Routes to an AI Career: Three women professionals share how they use the very same skills that are critical to engineering in their work in artificial intelligence. Read about their leadership journeys in this challenging industry.
Watch out for SWE Magazine’s feature story on mentorships and sponsorships coming up in the State of Women in Engineering issue this March!
Advance Learning Center
- Unlocking Growth Through Strategic Mentorship: Learn a new framework for mentorship through the six unique types of mentorship relationships, where to seek them, and how they help to achieve development goals, empowering you to create a strong network of support tailored to your ambitions.
- Best Practices for Being a Super Mentor: The personal and career benefits of being a mentor are many. Learn how to lay foundations for an outstanding mentor-mentee relationship, including finding the right match, balancing listening with advising, and serving as a sponsor as well as a mentor.
- Empowering Women at Work: Why and How to Sponsor Others: This session helps identify barriers and remedies to increase support and visibility for women in the workplace, including the impacts of layering other dimensions of diversity and the best practices for sponsoring others in the workplace.
To learn more about mentoring and networking among SWE members, reach out to mentoring@swe.org or connect with the Mentoring Working Group through email at mentoring-chair@swe.org.
