Mentorship Program - MENTORS NEEDED

We are looking for volunteers to mentor students, recent graduates and EITs through virtual and/or in-person meetings. On average, time commitment is one hour per week.

OSPE is committed to supporting diversity and inclusion in engineering. In 2017, we established a pilot mentorship program funded by Status of Women Canada. The results of this pilot demonstrated that a formal mentorship program is essential to achieving a more diverse engineering profession.

Thanks to the generous support of Hydro One and Transport Canada, OSPE’s Engineering Mentorship Program has become a permanent offering for OSPE members who want to obtain their licence or receive career advice, and it is a valued benefit of membership for mentors and mentees alike.

Mentors provide support to recent engineering graduates in four key areas:

Obtaining licensure*
Career planning
Entrepreneurship
Enhancing professional networks

Mentors must:

Possess 2+ years of industry experience in their designated engineering discipline
Be familiar with labour market trends impacting recent engineering graduates and the engineering profession
Be sensitive to the explicit and subtle barriers that women and other underrepresented groups can experience in their engineering career

OSPE uses MentorCity an online mentor-mentee matching platform, and we are happy to note that MentorCity is now available for mobile use through GooglePlay and the Mac App Store.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor or would like more information, please register now or email ambassador@ospe.on.ca.

*If interested in providing specific support for obtaining licensure, the mentor must hold a P.Eng. licence.