Advising, Counseling and Referrals

General advising concerning academic, career and personal issues is available to students at all levels. WIE staff provide information, offer guidance, make referrals and provide support. Students may walk-in or call (734) 647-7012 for an appointment. WIE office staff members are also designated UM Sexual Harassment Complaint Receivers and can receive complaints from students, faculty and staff.

Peer Advisors

Upper level women graduate students serve as trained peer advisors and are available to assist and advise incoming women graduate students. Peer advisors for each department provide information and make referrals. Each peer advisor will host a brown bag lunch on a specific topic during the year. Peer advisors can most easily be reached by e-mail.

Graduate Peer Advisor List 2005-2006

Biomedical Engineering - Sylva Krizan

Aerospace Engineering - vacancy

Atmospheric and Oceanic Science - Judy Yu

Chemical Engineering - Wendy Comisar

Civil and Environmental Engineering - vacancy

Computer Science and EE - Lisa Hsu

Electrical Engineering (Systems) - Kaiann Liang Fu

Industrial and Operations Engineering - Cristina Pomales - Garcia

Materials Science - vacancy

Mechanical Engineering - vacancy

Macromolecular Science and Engineering - Diana Siberio

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering - Jamie Swalek

Nuclear Engineering - Maryanne Stasko

Applied Physics - vacancy

FIND A FACULTY FOR THE FUTURE MENTOR! http://www.engr.psu.edu/fff/ The Faculty for the Future website provides a complete line of services for students(or individuals) searching for academic and research positions, as well as for academic and research institutes looking for qualified candidates to fill various positions.

Candidates who are interested in finding academic positions at higher education institutions and faculty who are interested in finding qualified candidates have to first register with the Faculty For The Future website. During registration, they can choose a username and password, which will allow them to access the secured database. Users will logon to the website using their username and password. The database can be accessed once they have logged on to the website. For candidates there is resume entry form to post information to the database. Upon agreement to the terms and conditions and submission of the resume, faculty members, administrators and search committees from participating institutions will then be able to search the database using specific keywords to find resumes in the database. For those searching for candidates for faculty, research or post doc positions, graduate students and/or undergraduate research programs, registration will lead to access to a place to post positions and view resume of candidates. Faculty who are past FFF fund recipients may also search the resume database.

This program is designed to provide information, encouragement and support to graduate students and postdocs in engineering, science and business who are considering faculty careers. Proteges are matched in one-on-one e-mentoring relationships with tenured faculty members and are provided with the training, coaching and support for an 8 month mentoring relationship. The whole program, from sign up to the mentoring relationship itself, is run via the web and e-mail.

Simply go to the Faculty for the Future web site: http://www.engr.psu.edu/fff/ to sign up for One-on-One Academic Career Mentoring!