About the Student Mentorship Project

E-mail Jaimee at jtopinio@ucla.edu if you'd like a mentor or want to be one.

Mentors and their Mentees are split into families. Here we have the 'Hearts' Family.

The Mentor Program is designed as a program that helps foster relationships between experienced students that have been through most the college experience already and new students who are just now experiencing it.

How the program works

Mentorship is designed to help incoming freshmen transition to college life as civil engineering students. First-year students are paired up with upper-division civil engineering students. Throughout the year, the mentor and the "mentee" are encouraged to attend various events together, such as ASCE-coordinated BBQs and bowling nights. The mentors may help their first-year students to enroll in classes, complete their homework, learn the campus, or plan out their coursework schedule.

Benefits of Mentoring

During the first two years of college, there is still much to learn about with regard to campus places, people and resources. Through a mentorship program, those who have survived the years of college can help prepare those who are just getting started. The mentored student would be able to go to his/her mentor for questions and advice, and by the end of the year the mentee will have gained general knowledge and tips about life as a Civil Engineering major at UCLA. Such advice may span a wide array of topics including ASCE conference projects, life in Boelter, professors, social life, Westwood and even the mentor's own personal secrets to success.