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 Peer Mentoring Program
Each school year, we match new students with experienced ones who serve as mentors throughout the first year at Kettering. Mentors and their protégés meet regularly to help ease the transition to college life. Mentors support and encourage our new students, as well as provide lots of Kettering know-how. They can recommend campus and community resources to enhance academic and personal success.
MentorNet
This national electronic mentoring program links Kettering undergraduates and working professionals in all engineering fields. Students and mentors communicate regularly via email, about school, work, career planning, etc. Participants report they receive many benefits from their involvement in the MentorNet program.
Visiting Women Engineers & Scientists
Each term we invite successful women in engineering, science, and mathematics to speak at Kettering. These women provide our students with valuable perspectives on career paths and personal choices, plus strategies for success. Many of our speakers are Kettering alumnae; all are women who have achieved prominence in their fields.
Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Kettering sponsors two student sections of this national professional organization, whose primary purpose is to help women achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders. SWE members exemplify the ways in which engineers act as a positive force to improve the quality of life in U.S. society.
Each winter, A-Section SWE members host an Engineering Expo designed to introduce high school girls to the variety and excitement of engineering fields. The society invites 30 high school students to attend the two-day event, where they participate in demonstrations and experiments designed by SWE members. Kettering students lead technical workshops, conduct tours of campus labs and facilities, and share their insights about majoring in engineering and planning a career in it.
B-Section SWE members are developing a program to encourage middle school girls to actively pursue their interests in science and math. The program will include efforts to make adolescents aware of what engineers do and what kinds of contributions women engineers make to U.S. industry and society.
Resource Library
The OWSA maintains a resource library with up-to-date information on a variety of topics of interest to our women students, including:
Grants, Scholarships & Fellowships: Information on grants, scholarships, and fellowships is available to young women pursuing academic degrees in engineering, science, and math. Graduate Schools: Our resource library includes information on professional and academic graduate programs in a variety of disciplines, including engineering, mathematics, sciences, business, medicine, teaching, and law. Career Planning: Recent books and articles on opportunities, challenges, and choices for women pursuing careers in engineering and technology are all available as are salary surveys, results of job satisfaction studies, and information on other topics of interest to women engineers and scientists. Gender Issues Information: Students often use the resource library to access books, articles, professional journals, and academic periodicals on gender-related topics for students and professionals in engineering, science, and math. Information includes resources for women students who confront sexual harassment and sex discrimination in the workplace. We also have referral information for women's medical needs.
Travel Grants
We encourage undergraduates to present papers and/or posters at professional meetings and academic societies. A limited number of travel grants are available from the OWSA to cover the cost of travel to meetings.
Cultural Events
Throughout the academic year, the OWSA sponsors and underwrites participation in cultural events at venues in Flint and the Detroit metropolitan area. We encourage all of our students to broaden their perspectives by participating in these cultural opportunities.
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