Folks, This appears to be an outstanding program. If you're interested in mentoring, please contact: walterm@private Walter E. Myers, PE IEEE Life Senior Member ASE Mentorship Development Saturday Academy Portland State University 20000 NW Walker Road Beaverton, OR 97006-8921 -----Original Message----- From: walterm@private [mailto:walterm@private] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 3:47 PM To: George Heuston Cc: schmitz@private Subject: Summer 2003 ASE Program - CALL FOR MENTORS Dear Mr. Heuston, This message is per your conversation with our advisory board member Dick Knight. He has asked me to send you the following information regarding our call for engineering mentors. We are in the last phase of forming the Apprenticeships in Science and Engineering (ASE) Program for next summer and are short of mentors in the whole range of engineering sciences. We have some grant money from two sources that can be used to co-fund engineering discipline positions in the program. They come from the 1) Oregon Legislature under the Engineering Technology Industry Council (ETIC)initiative, and 2) The IEEE USA Foundation. We have not committed all of these grant funds so far this year and are specifically looking for new employers and their professionals to introduce to the ASE Program via mentoring in the Summer 2003 Program. You can get more program information at our web site www.aseprogram.org and/or can call ASE at (503) 748-1395. Note that we have also posted the first listing of position descriptions that we have received for next summer under "student information". These can also be used by mentors as examples of assignments that others in their discipline have developed to challenge apprentices. We are trying to get positions committed by the end of March so we can post an update of new positions to our WEB page and also direct them to the attention of students in the geographical area of the postion who have expressed interest in science/engineering discipline of the position. So far we have 134 positions in hand (down from last summer's 143). We currently have 421 student applicants for these positions and just over 65 collaborating employers. THE FOLLOWING IS A BRIEF PROGRAM SUMMARY for the Summer 2003 ASE Program which serves student in Oregon and SWWashington in collaboration with practicing science and engineering professionals and their employers. We are especially trying to increase the number of high school student opportunities as we historically have had from three to five times the applicants as positions to accomodate them. The ASE Program is structured to give students a full experience in applying for, competing for and interviewing for a job. Apprentices are selected by the mentor from a roster of students that have specifically applied to the respective position by essay. Selected apprentices experience an eight week hands-on application of a science or engineering discipline at the direction of a practicing professional in that discipline. ASE augments this experience with a mid-summer conference and an end of summer symposium. ASE then certifies the student activity to their respective high schools for elective science credit. Apprentices are usually from your local area and local high school science teachers are hired to visit the site and help deliver and evaluate the program in their respective geographical areas. Mentors sometimes have a hard time describing now what a student might be doing next summer. In that case we recommend a "generic" position description covering the discipline of the mentor, the product or service of the work unit or the sciences employed. A specific project or assignment can then be discussed during the student interview phase in the March time frame. The position description should also contain any student skills or knowledge required (computer skills, completed academic courses, driving license, etc) to help the students self select when applying to their three positions of interest. I am attaching the list of the collaborating employers from the Summer 2002 ASE Program and the two forms for submitting position descriptions and the associated financial agreements for mentors and their employers to collaborate in delivering the ASE Program in Oregon and SW Washington. It costs $2,700 to support a student in the ASE Program, of which the student receives $1,000 as a summer stipend. The stipend is intended to facilitate participation by science oriented students from all social and economic sectors of the population Thank you in advance for considering the ASE Program. In the last thirteen years we have served 2,083 students with the help of collaborating employers. The 143 student apprentices last summer were 52% male, 48% female and 32% minority. They were drawn from a pool of 459 applicants which underscores the need to develop more positions to meet the demand and interest for this sort of experience. The students in the Summer 2003 Program will be entering the workforce pool in about six years when they complete college. Please call if we can be of any help in custom developing a position or if you have any questions regarding the ASE Program. I can be reached at (503) 748- 1395. In that I only volunteer part time, you can ask for the Program Director, Molly Schmitz in my absence. Saturday Academy and the ASE Program are part of the pre-college science and engineering activities of Portland State University and Oregon Health and Sciences University. NOTE: The due dates shown on the attached forms have been replaced by the date March 31, 2003. Sincerely, Walter E. Myers, PE IEEE Life Senior Member ASE Mentorship Development Saturday Academy Portland State University 20000 NW Walker Road Beaverton, OR 97006-8921
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