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San Jose, CA (March, 21, 2006) – MentorNet is pleased to announce
that Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has become a new Leadership Circle
Level Partner to the organization, joining a list of companies that recognize
the need to develop a technical and creative workforce. MentorNet is a
Silicon Valley-headquartered nonprofit that links students and professionals
in scientific and technical fields across the globe.
With TI’s participation, MentorNet will be better positioned to
achieve its strategic goals in 2006, including work toward its newly expanded
outreach to organizations focused on diversity in scientific and technical
fields. MentorNet’s research-based, award-winning programs leverage
technology to create and sustain mentoring relationships instrumental
in completing academic preparation and initiating early professional development
for fields where the numbers of women and people of color are still small.
MentorNet, the E-mentoring Network for Diversity in Engineering and Science,
relies on patent pending technology-based systems, involving email and
the internet to support one-on-one mentoring relationships for thousands
of students in engineering and science.
MentorNet’s programs link undergraduate and graduate students at
universities across the U.S. and in several other countries with professionals
in industry, government and higher education. This work, conducted since
1998, has proven that productive mentoring can occur through email, and
it serves as a leading model of best practices for mentoring.
“With the support of partners like TI, MentorNet has grown from
serving 250 students at 15 universities in 1998 to since having reached
more than 15,000 students from well over 100 colleges and universities,”
said Carol Muller, MentorNet’s founder and chief executive officer.
“This latest contribution will help power MentorNet’s reach
into the future, enabling us to enhance our capacity and extend our reach.”
“Because engineering innovation is the foundation of the semiconductor
industry, TI has a vested interest in building the engineering talent
pool. One smart way to do that is by encouraging all populations, thereby
enabling us to master the greatest levels of creativity and innovation
and impact TI’s bottom line. Mentoring is effective in student retention
and is especially helpful to non-traditional engineering students,”
said Tegwin Pulley, vice president, Texas Instruments. Pulley says Texas
Instruments will work through the Texas Engineering and Technical Consortium
to encourage colleges and universities in Texas to take advantage of MentorNet’s
programs to enable their students to learn more about opportunities in
industry.
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About
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies
to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In addition
to Semiconductor, the company's businesses include Sensors & Controls,
and Education Technology. TI is headquartered in Dallas,
Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than
25 countries.
Texas Instruments
is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information
is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com
About
MentorNet - www.MentorNet.net
MentorNet, headquartered in San José, California, is a nonprofit
501(c)(3) organization working to further the progress of women and others
underrepresented in scientific and technical fields through the use of
a dynamic, technology-supported mentoring network. MentorNet aims to advance
individuals and society, and enhance engineering and related sciences,
by promoting a diversified, expanded and talented global workforce. In
partnership with colleges and universities, corporations, government labs
and agencies, and professional societies, MentorNet is international in
scope, serving students and professionals from all over the world. MentorNet
was recognized in 2001 with the (U.S.) Presidential Award for Excellence
in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Major funding is provided
by the National Science Foundation, Alcoa Foundation, IBM, Cisco Systems,
Google, Hewlett Packard, Symantec Corporation, and Texas Instruments.
This material
is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
Grants No. HRD-0541853 and SBE-0549084. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions
or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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