Before the semester
Biweekly meetings begin ahead of Fall 2026, focused on course planning and preparation for the first teaching appointment.
Faculty mentors
Every E3 Fellow is paired with an experienced faculty mentor who guides them through the full nine months — from course planning to the culminating scholarly teaching contribution.
The role
Individualized guidance, all year long.
Mentors meet biweekly with their fellow in preparation for and through the semester — discussing teaching challenges, classroom observations, professional growth, and career development — followed by monthly check-ins.
They also provide feedback on fellows’ instructional innovations and scholarly teaching projects, fostering reflective practice and continuous improvement. At the end of the year, mentors join the Department or Unit Chair in a final structured evaluation of the fellow’s overall growth and readiness as an engineering educator.
What mentorship covers
- Course planning and syllabus design
- Classroom observation and instructional feedback
- Assessment strategy and student engagement
- Professional growth and career development
- Instructional innovation and SoTL project guidance
- Joint summative evaluation with the Department or Unit Chair
Cadence
How the mentoring year runs
Through the semester
Biweekly meetings continue alongside classroom observation and formative feedback on instruction, assessment, and engagement.
Into the spring
Monthly check-ins support the two-course load and the implementation and evaluation of the instructional innovation.
For prospective mentors
Mentoring in the E3 Fellows Program
Mentors are experienced faculty from across the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. The program is college-wide and led by the Department of Engineering Education. Each mentor is paired with one or two fellows for the nine-month appointment. Recruitment for the 2026–27 cohort has closed.
What mentoring involves
- Meet biweekly with your mentee
- Observe one or two teaching sessions and give formative feedback on course planning, instruction, assessment, and student engagement
- Advise on the fellow’s instructional innovation and scholarly teaching project
- Join the fellow’s Department or Unit Chair in a brief joint evaluation at the end of the year
What you get out of it
- Shape how the next generation of engineering faculty teaches
- A documented mentoring and service contribution that can support your annual review and promotion dossier
- Close involvement in a mentee’s Scholarship of Teaching and Learning project from proposal through dissemination, with opportunities for co-authored scholarly teaching work
- Membership in a college-wide community of practice spanning six units, with connections to the CTE’s teaching and research networks and potential cross-unit collaborations
Meet the mentors
2026–27 faculty mentors
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