Class mentors

- Architectural Technology and Construction Management

On the Architectural Technology and Construction Management programme, we have a class mentor programme for all students. The programme includes two students from each class of students from the 2nd to the 7th semester.

The role of the mentor

Mentor means advisor or guide. A mentor can advise, guide and co-operate and challenge you based on his or her own experience.

As a student, you will often feel frustrated in different ways, e.g. in connection with semester plans, portfolios, writing your final exam project, your elective project, looking for an internship company etc.

Sometimes, it is easier to talk to a student who is on a semester higher than yours because they have been through the same problems as you and they have built experience and found out that there is method to the madness.

You may also be interested in a subject that you have heard the older students are working on, and you might like them to tell you about it.

Examples

You could talk to class mentors about several things:

From the 1st semester:

• Frustrations in relation to semester plans. 
• What should I include in a project and how do I limit it? 
• What drawings should I present for my evaluations? 
• What is the idea of working on my portfolio? (Your portfolio is a description of your own strengths, weaknesses and ambitions.)

From the 3rd semester:

• How do I go about writing a elective project? 
• Is the subject I find interesting good enough for my elective project? 
• How should I structure the elective project 
• What about going abroad for studies or internships? 
• What about looking for an internship company – when is a good time to start planning, and where could I apply?

On the study programme in general:

• Academic matters – e.g. how do you work with digital/electronic hand-over?