Mentor profile assignment

Create a blog entry that discusses the faculty available to you as mentors.

1. State your capstone idea in 100 words or less.
2. Identify and discuss 4 key components you are searching for in a mentor.
3. Identify 3 potential mentors from the MAS faculty you would like to approach to discuss your capstone. Make sure one of them is someone from whom you have never taken a class.
4. Explain what these faculty members coud bring to your capstone and why you are interested in working with them.
5. Either via web research, email, phone, or in person interview, discuss the following topics about each faculty member you are interested in working with:
   1. Their area of expertise
   2. Their expectations of a capstone student
   3. Their general availablity for mentoring next semester
   4. If they have any project types they are not interested in working with
   5. Their thoughts on a secondary advisor
   6. Anything else you might want to add

This profile should be completed and posted for each mentor candidate (total of 3) no later than Sept. 20. If you want, you may post them as individual blog entries and submit all 3 URL's here, or you can do it as one big blog entry.

If you already have your mentor selected, please still do this. The fact that these are such directed questions will only help you and your existing mentor(s) work together better. Exploring other mentors, even if you already have one, serves 2 purposes:

1. It helps you learn what other faculty resources might be available to help you
2. Possibly more important, in the event that your current mentor becomes unavailable for some reason you have already made strides toward becoming familiar with other faculty (you should ALWAYS have a plan B and a plan C at the very least...)

Please let me know if you have any problems or questions about this assignment.