{"id":77669,"date":"2023-09-08T08:53:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/?page_id=77669"},"modified":"2025-11-24T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T11:19:06","slug":"women-in-engineering-mentorship-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/student-resources\/undergraduate-students\/student-organizations\/women-in-engineering-mentorship-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in Engineering Mentorship Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"493\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Screenshot-2023-09-07-at-2.20.38-PM-500x493-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81584\" style=\"width:180px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Screenshot-2023-09-07-at-2.20.38-PM-500x493-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Screenshot-2023-09-07-at-2.20.38-PM-500x493-1-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2168\/Screenshot-2023-09-07-at-2.20.38-PM-500x493-1-364x359.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>WEM is a group of students that wants to promote a sense of belonging for women-identifying students on campus, especially in majors where it can feel isolating. Freshman women-identifying engineers are paired with upperclass students as an immediate support system. WEM strives to promote supporting others: being the person that cheers someone else on, even when things get tough, academically or socially. To summarize, the program aims to align with the following mission statement:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Through training and strategic outreach, establish genuine and effective mentor\/mentee relationships that support academic, social, and personal growth to build a network within the College of Engineering and the URI community.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advisor:<br><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/mcise\/meet\/gretchen-a-macht\/\">Dr. Gretchen Macht<br><\/a>Associate Professor<br>College of Engineering: Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact Information:<br><\/strong>E-Mail:&nbsp; <a href=\"mailto:rhodyswe@gmail.com\">rhodyswe@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Social Media:<br><\/strong>Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uriwemprogram\/?hl=en\">@uriwemprogram<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEM is a group of students that wants to promote a sense of belonging for women-identifying students on campus, especially in majors where it can feel isolating. Freshman women-identifying engineers are paired with upperclass students as an immediate support system. WEM strives to promote supporting others: being the person that cheers someone else on, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4861,"featured_media":0,"parent":84824,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-77669","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87107,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77669\/revisions\/87107"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}