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Originally Posted by rocketperson44
Contact local colleges. That is where nearly every team I know of gets many of their mentors. Engineering majors there will probably be glad to help out.
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I agree 100%, many engineering majors have access to facilities and resources that professional engineers wish they had. While college students may not have as much experience as older engineers it is not uncommon to find college students with 4-7 years of FIRST experience.
Even if a school has a team already there are usually enough mentors to go around, often teams get too many college mentors (1493 had 27 college students working with them in some capacity).
One other benefit to college students is that even if you only can get a software engineer I'd be willing to bet that there is at least one MechE and one EE that he/she talks to on a regular basis, you'd be surprised how many solutions to engineering problems come up in discussion in a dining hall.