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2006-2007 MentorNet Demographics:

Community Numbers

New Community Members: 8,788
Total Community Members: 18,784
Résumés posted during program year: 331

One-on-One E-Mentoring Numbers

Volunteers/Applicants: 3,817 Protégés, 3,693 Mentors
Matched Pairs: 3,037
Participating Colleges & Universities: 116
Number of Companies represented by Mentors: 1196

Sponsoring Companies with large numbers of mentor volunteers (40 or more):
Texas Instruments: 504
Hewlett Packard Company: 360
IBM Corporation: 337
3M Company: 161
Non-Sponsoring Companies with large numbers of mentor volunteers (20 or more):
Ford Motor Company: 33
Intel Corporation: 22
AT&T: 21

Demographics of Matched Participants

Countries represented: Protégés - 10, Mentors - 40
Nationalities (Citizenships) represented: Protégés - 108, Mentors - 71
Mentors by Gender: 50.6% Female, 49.1% Male
Protégés by Gender: 60.2% Female, 39.5% Male

Protégés by Degree Program:
3% Associates
65% Undergraduates (62% frosh/soph; 38% juniors/seniors)
11% Masters
16% Ph.D.
5% Postdoc
1% Untenured Faculty
Diversity by Ethnicity:
(voluntary self-identification):
Ethnicity Protégés Mentors
American Indian or Alaskan Native

1.22%

0.95%

Asian/Asian-American

31.22%

18.90%

Black/African American

12.71%

7.54%

Hispanic, Latina/o

7.38%

5.07%

Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander

0.53%

0.20%

White / Caucasian

49.49%

65.69%

Non-responsive

2.24%

4.28%


NOTE: Percentages may add up to more than 100% due to multi-race identification, which is counted towards each ethnicity stated.
Protégés by Fields of Study (Matched):
Summary
4% Business
17% Computer Sciences / Computer Engineering
55% Engineering (See separate listing for Comp.Sci./Comp.Engg)
3% Environmental Sciences (Including Geology, Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences)
12% Life Sciences (Including Agricultural and Biological Sciences)
9% Physical & Mathematical Sciences (Including Chemistry,Physics,Math,Astronomy)
Detail
2.7% Aero/Astro Engineering
0.4% Agricultural and Plant Sciences
1.2% Applied Mathematics and Statistics
1.6% Architectural Engineering
0.4% Astronomy
0.6% Aviation / Aerospace
0.7% Biochemical Engineering
0.6% Bioinformatics / Computational Biology
0.4% Biological Sciences - Anatomy
2.2% Biological Sciences - Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Structural Biology
1.0% Biological Sciences - Cell and Developmental Biology
0.9% Biological Sciences - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
0.9% Biological Sciences - Genetics
1.3% Biological Sciences - Microbiology and Immunology
1.1% Biological Sciences - Neuroscience
1.8% Biological Sciences - Other
0.8% Biological Sciences - Pharmacology
0.2% Biological Sciences - Physiology
5.0% Biological/Biomedical Engineering
0.5% Biotechnical Engineering
0.2% Business - Accounting
1.2% Business - Finance
0.1% Business - Human Resources
2.1% Business - Management
0.6% Business - Marketing/Sales
0.2% Ceramic Engineering
4.7% Chemical Engineering
3.2% Chemistry
4.1% Civil/Architectural Engineering
5.7% Computer Engineering
11.5% Computer Science
0.3% Construction Engineering
12.0% Electrical & Electronics Engineering
1.6% Engineering - Other
1.7% Engineering Management
0.2% Engineering Mechanics
2.2% Environmental Engineering
1.4% Environmental Sciences
1.2% Geology / Earth Science
2.7% Industrial/Operations Engineering
0.2% Manufacturing Engineering
1.3% Mathematics
9.3% Mechanical Engineering
2.6% Metallurgy & Materials Engineering
0.1% Mineral & Mining Engineering
0.1% Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
0.6% Nuclear Engineering
0.1% Ocean Engineering
0.2% Optical Engineering
0.3% Petroleum Engineering
0.1% Physics - Atomic, Molecular, Optical
0.4% Physics - Condensed Matter and Materials
0.1% Physics - Fluids, Plasma, Non-linear
2.6% Physics - General/Other
0.1% Physics - Medical
0.1% Physics - Nuclear, Particle, Astrophysics
0.1% Plastics Engineering
0.6% Systems Engineering
0.2% Technical Communications
0.2% Transportation Engineering

 

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