Engineering Mentors Attitude/Role Towards Their NEM Counterparts

[Carolyn_Grace]

I've been mentoring the Killer Bees for about 5 solid years now (before that I was sort of a junior mentor and a student on the team). I have my degree in English, and my mentoring role can best be described by the nickname that my students call me: Mom. I also head up the Chairman's submission effort, and handle other marketing areas.

I love "my" engineers, and have a unique relationship with them, as I'm younger than they are (which has created a bit of a "little sister/big brother" relationship between us) and am one of the main NEMs on the team, but enjoy being a part of the design/robot process as well. I'm sure that other team's mentors have unique relationships with each other.

I'm curious:

What is the attitude of the Engineer/Mechanical mentors towards the Non-Engineering Mentors (NEMs) on their team?

Vice versa?

What is the student attitude towards the NEMs on your team? How does it differ from their attitude towards the Engineering/Mechanical mentors?