Mentor/Student Involvement Philosophies

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

The only success that matters out there, in my mind, is the percentage of students from a team that go on to major in something relevant and related to their job on the team. If a team has this happening at near 100%, then they don't need to change a thing. If, on the other hand, they find they are driving away kids, then something needs to change.

I'm going to disagree again If a student designs parts all their years on the team and decides they don't like it and instead go into theatre arts I don't consider this a failing. In fact, I consider this a success. Yeah, we need engineers and it's a great profession for some folks. But if the only thing a student gets out of 4 years on the team is a list of things they don't want to do I'm happy with that. Mission Accomplished, they still have a better understanding of what it takes to be an engineer and hopefully some better problem solving skills.