Dear Freshmen,
The School of Computing has introduced a mentorship scheme with the aim to provide guidance to its students throughout the course of study in NUS.
Under this scheme, every student is assigned a mentor, who must be an academic staff with teaching responsibility.
Through this scheme,
- Students can receive academic advice from their mentors.
- Mentors can help students achieve their potential by giving encouragement and lending their supports.
- Students can seek help from their mentors as referees for their various application for participating in academic activities (such as NOC, ATAP, etc.) and their application for jobs upon graduation.
- Mentors will act as the supervisors and evaluators for the students during their internship (a.ka. ATAP).
- Mentors will work with academic advisors to monitor and
counsel weak mentees when the latter was placed in probation
lists due to poor performance.
Each student will be assigned a mentor when he is matriculated to NUS. The assignment of mentors will be based on students' indication of their preferred programmes of study.
They are requested to meet up with their mentors within the first two weeks of the first semester.
A mentee will be under the care of a mentor throughout his/her years of study. Changes of mentor-mentee assignment will happen when:
- the mentor leaves SoC: In this case, new assignment of mentor is required for the mentees.
- mentee requests for change of mentor: In this case, the reason will be gathered and changes will be made when necessary.
Both mentors and mentees are encouraged to meet at least once a semester.
Below please find the mentorship list by year of admission:
Computing: Mentorship list 2009
Computer Engineering: Mentorship list 2009
Mentorship list 2008 ( MySoC->Academic ->Mentoring List)
Please identify the mentor assigned to you from the list above and send him/her an email to request for an appointment with him/her. Usually, you can know more about your mentor by browsing his/her webpage, which can be found through the following URL template:http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~<userid>. For example, my userid is khoosc{@}comp.nus.edu.sg, and so my webpage is http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~khoosc.
You may also wish to participate in discussion about mentorship, or to help build up a list of FAQ about mentorship. To do that, please go to the following website:
https://mysoc.nus.edu.sg/~wiki/index.php/FAQ_for_Freshmen_and_Their_Mentors
All the best to your study here.
Siau Cheng
Khoo Siau Cheng (Dr)
Associate Professor & Vice-Dean (Undergraduate Studies) |
