ICSE 2020 - Student Mentoring Workshop

Wed 24 June - Thu 16 July 2020

Student Mentoring Workshop is virtual and free!

Due to concerns about COVID-19, ICSE 2020 Student Mentoring Workshop (SMeW 2020) is going virtual and free (July 2 ~ July 3).

Purpose

SMeW 2020 is aimed at advanced undergraduates and first/second year graduate students. The goal of the workshop is to attract students to research careers in software engineering, to de-mystify the graduate school experience, and to offer first-hand perspectives on graduate study from recent Ph.D. graduates, young scholars, and senior researchers.

A purpose of the workshop is to promote diversity and increase the participation of students who are members of underrepresented groups in graduate studies in software engineering. We therefore especially encourage participation from women, Aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities, and other groups underrepresented in computing. This workshop provides these students with valuable opportunities for mentorship and networking.

The workshop program will focus on important skills for beginning researchers and will offer mentoring opportunities with senior researchers attending the conference, discussing the topics:

Why pursue a PhD degree and how to choose a research specialty area?
What are the new emerging areas of research in software engineering?
What are the differences/tradeoffs between a research career in industry, academia, government?
How to network effectively at a conference?
How to navigate graduate school toward a rewarding Ph.D.?
How to create a good presentation?
How to construct an awesome research paper?

How To Participate

Free registration

SMeW 2020 is free of registration fee. However, students who want to participate in the live mentoring sessions still need to register using the ICSE 2020 registration site. We will send the links to the live sessions to those registered by June 30.

The ICSE 2020 registration site will be open by June 10. You can find a link to the site here: https://2020.icse-conferences.org/attending/registration

Prerecorded talks

There will be 4-5 talks from mentors that participants can watch on their own pace before having live mentoring sessions. The talks will be available on-line by July 1, at least one day before having live mentoring sessions → Now available in the “Invited speakers” page

Live Mentoring Sessions

There will be two live 90-minute networking and mentoring session over Zoom, the week before ICSE. We picked 2 times to accommodate different time zones:

Session 1: July 2, 5pm UTC (1pm on July 2 in EDT, 7pm on July 2 CEST, 2am on July 3 KST)
Session 2: July 3, 7am UTC (4pm KST, 9am CEST, 2am EDT)

We ask participants to pick one of the two sessions and indicate it in the registration.

Questions

Send us e-mails to icse2020.smew@gmail.com

Check out the call, here: https://conf.researchr.org/track/icse-2020/icse-2020-Student-Mentoring-Workshop

Live Mentoring Sessions

There will be two live 90-minute networking and mentoring session over Zoom, the week before ICSE. We picked 2 times to accommodate different time zones:

Session 1: July 2, 5pm UTC (1pm on July 2 in EDT, 7pm on July 2 CEST, 2am on July 3 KST)
Session 2: July 3, 7am UTC (4pm KST, 9am CEST, 2am EDT)