This book–written by Jerry Miller, Anitha Kurup, S. S. Iyengar, Naveen Chaudhary, and Niki Pissinou–not only covers the ’tools of the trade’ (mentoring how-to), it also examines mentoring’s ancient origins since Homer’s Odyssey, and peers into its future in virtual and outer space.
Mentors are not born; they are mentees first and they evolve through trials and tribulations to success, to pass on their accumulated knowledge so the next generation can carry the torch yet farther. Such has been the experience of every known brilliant scientist in history. While they possessed the seeds of intellect and passion, they were nurtured to greatness by building on the wisdom and successes of others before them.
Filled with the authors’ case studies and anecdotes from contributors, this book explores how we humans learn and pass on wisdom to those that follow. It explores the ’mentoring mindset’ needed to retrieve and transfer knowledge to the willing ears of mentees as they reach beyond even our newest frontier that is artificial intelligence. Look for answers in the book to questions like these:
- How do mentees benefit from their mentors?
- What are the characteristics of a good mentor?
- How are bright minds enabled to realize breakthroughs?
- What are mentoring’s origins and trends?
Innehållsförteckning
Contributor Anecdotes ix
Figures x
Dedication xi
Acknowledgements xii
Foreword xiii
Editor’s Note xvii
PART I: MENTORING IN THE AGE OF AI 1
1Mentoring and Technology Over the Ages 3
2Setting the Stage 23
PART II: THE MENTORING PROCESS 51
3Learning, Mentoring, and Youth 53
4Learning and the Mind 71
5The Mentoring Mindset 87
6Mentoring to Build Character 113
7Creating a Mentoring Community 137
8National and Professional Programs 149
PART III: MENTORING EXPERIENCES AND THE FUTURE 165
9Best Practices and Methods for Evaluation 167
10 Case Studies as an Educational Tool 177
11 Next-Generation Mentoring 201
12 Mentoring Gifted Protégés 217
13 Advanced Technology and New Challenges 225
14 Mentoring in Virtual and Outer Space 243
Cited Works 257
Index 269
About the Authors 275
Om författaren
Dr. S. S. ’Ram’ Iyengar is currently a Distinguished University Professor and a former Director of the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at FIU, Miami, Florida. He is also the founding director of the Discovery Lab, an undergraduate lab for mentoring students in research. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Iyengar was Roy Paul Daniel’s Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science department at Louisiana State University for over 20 years. During the last four decades, he has supervised and mentored over 55 Ph.D. students, more than 100 Master’s students, and many undergraduate students who are now faculty at major universities worldwide, as well as scientists or engineers at national labs and industries around the world. He has published more than 500 research papers, and authored, co-authored, or edited 22 books. Dr. Iyengar is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).