Purdue ECE partners with TaskHuman to provide additional wellness support
TaskHuman is a wellness app that gives ECE students, faculty and staff FREE 24/7 access to one-on-one coaching for everything from stress management to home workouts to better sleep, and more.
The first-of-its-kind partnership between the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering provides students, faculty, and staff with another option for support, along with the wellness programs already available through Purdue. Purdue ECE launched a pilot program in Fall 2020 with TaskHuman to offer free one-on-one video coaching with wellness professionals in a variety of areas, including physical fitness, mental well-being, academic support, financial wellness, and more. In Spring 2021, the program was expanded to include all staff, students, and faculty in Purdue’s College of Engineering.
Dimitrios (Dimitri) Peroulis, the Michael and Katherine Birck Head of the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, says student health and wellness is always the top priority.
“The past few years have been challenging for all of us,” he says. “We are very proud to offer this resource not only to our students, but also to our entire Purdue Engineering community.”
ECE graduate student Tridib Saha used TaskHuman to get healthier after slipping into bad eating habits and not exercising during quarantine.
“I knew over the quarantine, I’d gained a lot of weight and had been unproductive, so I wanted to get things in order. [This resource] motivated me,” he says. “That was the reason I made the first call. And once I made the first call, it was amazing. I got things started, and the rest of the calls followed from that.”
Peroulis says ECE plans to expand the use of TaskHuman to offer mentoring opportunities to current students. Interested alumni will be able to use TaskHuman as a platform to serve as a “Coach” for current ECE students, sharing their unique experiences and offering insight into areas such as career guidance, work-life balance, graduate school options, entrepreneurship, interviewing tips, careers in academia, and much more. ECE faculty can sign up on TaskHuman as well, to serve as Faculty Coaches for current students. There will also be opportunities for current students to serve as mentors to their classmates.