Reflective Essay: My Philosophy Of Mentoring

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My philosophy of student mentoring is to help students finding their true interest, setting their future career goal, instill the belief in themselves and guide them through to achieve the goal. Mentoring students provides them with guidance and insights from the faculty’s collective experience. These insights lead students to discover new avenues of study, explore potential arenas for work experience and develop research interests. I believe mentoring is an integral part of a faculty. They are the advocate for students. I would like to be useful resources for students and use my intellect and experiences to guide students.
I mentor student in a collaborative way. Thus, I can figure out student’s weakness and strength form their input, which helps me to guide them in a efficient way for their future success. As a mentor, I value, respect, and care students’ opinion and feedback. I make sure that students feel comfortable and open to express their opinion, mistakes and suggestions. I also motivate and guide them in a proactive and engaging way so that they can be an independent decision maker either in their study, research or career. …show more content…

One particular student was Guy Chappellaz, for whom I designed and supervised a research project. The other students I guided his research is Mohammad Rafat Sadat, who recently graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering of the University of Arizona. He was working in the experimental field and expressed his desire to work in the computational field. I explained various aspect of computational sciences, help him in learning them, suggested him for an appropriate (official) supervisor for computational materials science. The other students, whom I partially mentored on their computational works are Stefan Bringuier, Diana Bolser and Abdul-Jabbar

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