Sadrinezhad, A., & Oka, L. G., & Stillmaker,, K., & Thompson, L. L., & Cardenas Arriaga, C. E., & Amirkulova, F., & Nazari, M., & Abercromby, K., & Rosser, S. (2023, June), Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional “Speed” Mentoring and Networking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and Foreign Born/Trained Engineering Faculty  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--44369

\bibitem{asee_peer_44369}
  Sadrinezhad, A., \& Oka, L. G., \& Stillmaker,, K., \& Thompson, L. L., \& Cardenas Arriaga, C. E., \& Amirkulova, F., \& Nazari, M., \& Abercromby, K., \& Rosser, S. (2023, June), \emph{Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional “Speed” Mentoring and Networking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and Foreign Born/Trained Engineering Faculty}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--44369

Arezoo Sadrinezhad, Lalita G. Oka, Kimberly Stillmaker, P.E., Lizabeth L. Thompson, Catalina Eleonora Cardenas Arriaga, Feruza Amirkulova, Maryam Nazari, Kira Abercromby, and Sue Rosser.  "Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional “Speed” Mentoring and Networking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and Foreign Born/Trained Engineering Faculty".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/44369 Internet.  12 Mar, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_44369}
  Arezoo Sadrinezhad, Lalita G. Oka, Kimberly Stillmaker, P.E., Lizabeth L. Thompson, Catalina Eleonora Cardenas Arriaga, Feruza Amirkulova, Maryam Nazari, Kira Abercromby, and Sue Rosser.
  "Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional “Speed” Mentoring and Networking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and Foreign Born/Trained Engineering Faculty".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/44369 Internet.  12 Mar, 2025

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author = "Arezoo Sadrinezhad, Lalita G. Oka, Kimberly Stillmaker, P.E., Lizabeth L. Thompson, Catalina Eleonora Cardenas Arriaga, Feruza Amirkulova, Maryam Nazari, Kira Abercromby, and Sue Rosser"
title = "Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional “Speed” Mentoring and Networking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and Foreign Born/Trained Engineering Faculty"
booktitle = "2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition"
year = "2023"
month = "June"
address = "Baltimore , Maryland"
publisher = "ASEE Conferences"
note = {https://peer.asee.org/44369}
number = {10.18260/1-2--44369}
}

TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Mentoring interventions, particularly mentoring that incorporates networking, have been
effective at meeting the professional needs of women and under-represented minority (URM)
faculty. However, women, especially URM women, in STEM careers report feeling left out of
networks and thus face decreased social and administrative support. The isolation of women,
especially URM women, in engineering in the California State University (CSU) System is
apparent in the fact that many CSU engineering departments have only a few women faculty and
no more than a single URM woman faculty. Thus, despite current mentoring programs at each
CSU campus, there is only a few (if any) other women within their engineering department with
whom they may discuss shared experiences. As part of the NSF funded ADVANCE Partnership
grant, “Kindling Inter-university Networks for Diverse (KIND) Engineering Faculty
Advancement in the California State University System”, in order to address this isolation and to
provide mentoring and networking opportunities for women engineering faculty in the CSU
system, particularly woman who identify as URM, a series of virtual (to enable cross-campus
mentoring), small group setting (to incorporate networking) mentoring events was organized.
Another aspect of this initiative emphasizes foreign-born (FB) or foreign-trained (FT) women, a
unique focus. Although the speed mentoring events are open to all engineering faculty in the
CSU system, there is specific emphasis on those who are normally excluded from formal
mentoring. In this paper, the post-event survey results which include the demographics of the
participants are reported and the importance and impact of these events are discussed. 
AU  - Arezoo Sadrinezhad
AU  - Lalita G. Oka
AU  - Kimberly Stillmaker, P.E.
AU  - Lizabeth L. Thompson
AU  - Catalina Eleonora Cardenas Arriaga
AU  - Feruza Amirkulova
AU  - Maryam Nazari
AU  - Kira Abercromby
AU  - Sue Rosser
CY  - Baltimore , Maryland
DA  - 2023/06/25
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Work in Progress: The Power of Cross-Institutional “Speed” Mentoring and Networking Program in Advancement of Women, URM, and Foreign Born/Trained Engineering Faculty
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/44369
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--44369
ER  -