Mentees & Mentors Program

Tell me more about M&M

We all need advice from time to time. The Mentees & Mentors Program, or M&M as we like to call it, gets undergrad women engineers together as a big group once a month for fun, conversation, networking and advice! M&M is designed to build a network with other women engineering students while learning timely personal and professional strategies to help students be successful in the classroom and on the job. Mentoring relationships are key for sharing and receiving helpful advice about engineering, college life and successful preparation for the future.

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Mission of the M&M Program

Our mission is to retain women undergraduate students in engineering through a dynamic and nurturing mentoring program. We support, affirm and strategically educate the program's participants and student leaders. We offer meetings and activities designed to sustain and strengthen mutual mentoring relationships as well as benefit the individuals. The objectives for the Mentees & Mentors Program are to:

Enhance personal support of students through contacts with women role models (including peers, alumni, and industry partners) and an interactive, mutually-beneficial peer mentoring program
Build confidence in students through affirmation of their skills and values
Share effective strategies that enable students to thrive in college, leading to successful completion of their engineering education and preparing them for future endeavors

The services and resources we provide add a unique and vital dimension for women engineering students at Purdue.

Learn more about M&M in West Lafayette

The M&M program is based on a network-mentoring model where all participants learn from one another. All participants attend our large M&M monthly meetings where we have dinner together, enjoy a guest speaker, engage in fun networking activities and gain professional skills and strategies for success. These meetings are held once a month on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings so you can pick the day that works best for your schedule. Meetings run from 6-7:30 p.m.

One-to-one (1:1) mentoring - Paired mentoring can enhance your experience and help guide you on a path for success. M&M participants can apply to participate in an optional 1:1 mentoring relationship. FYE participants (mentees) are paired with an upperclass participant (mentors) in their same major for personalized mentoring. Pairs are expected to meet once per week during the academic year. Limited spaces available.

M&M social events - To help participants build their engineering community, monthly social events are also held. Join us for bowling, board game night, movies, trivia, arts and crafts, and more fun events!

The program has been intentionally designed to offer the greatest opportunity for participant growth and success. Benefits include community building, networking and mentoring, as well as personal and professional development.

To gain these benefits, participants must be actively engaged in the M&M program. Participants, therefore, are expected to attend two monthly meetings, one M&M social and one Access Alum event each semester. Participants who meet these expectations will earn some cool WiE swag at the end of the year.

Sign up to become an M&M participant: The 2024-25 program is full for West Lafayette. Annual signup occurs in the summer preceding the school year.

Meet the West Lafayette Leadership Team

Please contact wiepmm@purdue.edu with questions.

Learn more about M&M in Indianapolis

To gain these benefits, participants must be actively engaged in the M&M program. Participants, therefore, are expected to attend two monthly meetings and one M&M social each semester. Participants who meet these expectations will earn some cool WiE swag at the end of the year.

Sign up to become an M&M participant: Annual signup occurs in the summer preceding the school year.

Meet the Indianapolis Leadership Team

Please contact wiemmindy@purdue.edu with questions.