HETRA于5月15日正式发起"工程青年导师计划"，首批共有23位HETEC资深专家委员与45位来自会员单位的青年工程师完成结对。计划为期一年，旨在通过制度化的师徒结对机制，帮助青年工程师突破职业发展中的关键瓶颈。
"工程青年导师计划"由HETRA执行局学术事务部与HETEC秘书处联合运作。计划的设计理念源于一个共识：工程行业的许多关键经验，是无法通过教材和论文传递的，只能通过近距离的观察、讨论和实际项目的协作来完成传承。而这种传承关系，在今天的工程单位中正变得越来越稀缺。
计划的具体运作方式是：每位导师与2-3位学员结对，约定每月至少一次线下或视频交流，每季度一次共同的现场考察或项目研讨，一年结束时学员须提交一份"学习报告"，由导师审阅并提交HETEC秘书处备案。
首批学员的遴选由HETRA向所有会员单位开放报名，共收到申请327份。遴选组由HETEC秘书长与5位资深专家组成，重点考察申请者的工程经验、学习意愿以及与导师领域的匹配度。最终入选的45位学员平均年龄29岁，来自土木、机械、电气、水利、环境五大子领域。
资深专家委员陈立群在计划启动仪式上分享了自己的一段话：我们那一代人年轻时，师傅带徒弟是工程行业的常态。后来行业节奏快了，这种关系几乎消失了。但我始终相信，工程经验的真正传递，还是要靠一代人把手上的东西亲自交给下一代人。这个计划让我有机会做一件对行业真正有用的事。
HETRA表示，如果首批计划运行顺利，将在2026年扩大规模，目标是每年有不少于50位青年工程师通过该计划获得系统化的导师支持。
HETRA officially launched the "Engineering Youth Mentorship Program" on May 15. In the first cohort, 23 HETEC senior expert committee members were paired with 45 young engineers from member organizations. The program lasts one year and aims to help young engineers break through key bottlenecks in career development through an institutionalized mentor-apprentice pairing mechanism.
The "Engineering Youth Mentorship Program" is jointly operated by the Academic Affairs Department of the HETRA Executive Bureau and the HETEC Secretariat. The design philosophy of the program comes from a shared understanding: many key experiences in the engineering industry cannot be transmitted through textbooks and papers, but can only be passed on through close observation, discussion, and collaboration in real projects. Such relationships of transmission are becoming increasingly rare in engineering organizations today.
The specific operating method of the program is as follows: each mentor is paired with two to three participants, with at least one offline or video exchange agreed each month, and one joint site visit or project seminar each quarter. At the end of the year, each participant must submit a "learning report," which is reviewed by the mentor and filed with the HETEC Secretariat.
Selection of the first cohort was opened by HETRA to all member organizations, and a total of 327 applications were received. The selection group consisted of the HETEC Secretary-General and five senior experts, focusing on applicants engineering experience, willingness to learn, and fit with the mentors fields. The 45 participants finally selected had an average age of 29 and came from five major subfields: civil engineering, machinery, electrical engineering, water conservancy, and environment.
At the program launch ceremony, senior expert committee member Chen Liqun shared his view: when our generation was young, masters teaching apprentices was the normal state of the engineering industry. Later, as the pace of the industry accelerated, this relationship almost disappeared. But I have always believed that the true transmission of engineering experience still depends on one generation personally handing what it has learned to the next generation. This program gives me the opportunity to do something genuinely useful for the industry.
HETRA stated that if the first cohort runs smoothly, the program will be expanded in 2026, with the goal of enabling no fewer than 50 young engineers each year to receive systematic mentor support through the program.