TY - GEN
T1 - Mentoring Opportunities in Computer Architecture
T2 - 2021 ACM/IEEE Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, WCAE 2021
AU - Garza, Elba
AU - Saileshwar, Gururaj
AU - Gupta, Udit
AU - Liu, Tianyi
AU - Mahmoud, Abdulrahman
AU - Ghose, Saugata
AU - Emer, Joel
N1 - Funding Information:
The Meet-a-Senior-Architect program, or MaSA, is a short-term at-conference mentoring program between more senior members of the architecture community and current students. Participation expectations are a 20-30 minute conversation between mentor and mentee sometime during the co-located conference. MaSA was conceived by Joel Emer after hearing about a program at the University of Chicago where students could sign up to meet with any professor for an informal conversation. MaSA was sponsored by SIGARCH and piloted by Joel and Partha Ranganathan at ISCA 2016 [15]. Joel continued to run MaSA at ISCA through 2020, and then (through a collaboration with CASA), MaSA was extended beyond ISCA to MICRO-53 in 2020, and ASPLOS 2021.
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PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Academic mentoring programming is a powerful tool used for supporting, engaging, and retaining students in their fields of study. Researchers have long known the positive effects of academic mentoring, particularly for students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds. The computer architecture community currently hosts an assortment of mentoring programs geared toward women, underrepresented students, junior graduate students, and undergraduates alike.In this work, we describe the current state of mentoring opportunities for students in computer architecture. In addition to summarizing various mentoring programs (e.g., CWWMCA, YArch, and uArch), this work details the organization and feedback from two programs (MaSA and MaSS) that the authors currently run and organize. Based on feedback from these short-term mentoring programs, along with relevant mentoring research literature, we identify opportunities for developing more productive longer-term mentoring programming for the computer architecture community. Following mentoring literature, this work makes a strong case for offering both short-term and long-term mentoring programs in the future; in particular, mentoring literature show the need for time in forming mentoring relationships for mentees to receive the multifaceted benefits of mentoring.
AB - Academic mentoring programming is a powerful tool used for supporting, engaging, and retaining students in their fields of study. Researchers have long known the positive effects of academic mentoring, particularly for students from underrepresented and marginalized backgrounds. The computer architecture community currently hosts an assortment of mentoring programs geared toward women, underrepresented students, junior graduate students, and undergraduates alike.In this work, we describe the current state of mentoring opportunities for students in computer architecture. In addition to summarizing various mentoring programs (e.g., CWWMCA, YArch, and uArch), this work details the organization and feedback from two programs (MaSA and MaSS) that the authors currently run and organize. Based on feedback from these short-term mentoring programs, along with relevant mentoring research literature, we identify opportunities for developing more productive longer-term mentoring programming for the computer architecture community. Following mentoring literature, this work makes a strong case for offering both short-term and long-term mentoring programs in the future; in particular, mentoring literature show the need for time in forming mentoring relationships for mentees to receive the multifaceted benefits of mentoring.
KW - Computer Architecture
KW - Graduate Students
KW - Mentorship
KW - Undergraduate Students
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U2 - 10.1109/WCAE53984.2021.9707614
DO - 10.1109/WCAE53984.2021.9707614
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85126881735
T3 - 2021 ACM/IEEE Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, WCAE 2021
BT - 2021 ACM/IEEE Workshop on Computer Architecture Education, WCAE 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 17 June 2021
ER -