Attention Engineering Juniors and Seniors: Ever wonder what REALLY goes on after college? Not sure how to get to where you want to be, career-wise? Do you have questions that you just don’t know who to ask?

So begins the flyer that organizers of the new Boston University College of Engineering Young Alumni Mentoring Program — Julie Young (BME’07), Stephanie Prager (MFG’08), and Annie Zavadil (BME’06,’08) — distributed on campus in September. As they get a foothold on the first rung of their own career ladders, the three recent graduates are reaching out to assist current ENG students in planning for what happens once they complete their studies.

Set to launch in early November, the Young Alumni Mentoring Program (YAMP) will pair ENG juniors and seniors with recent alumni based on career goals and interests. In a series of biweekly e-mail conversations, the mentors will advise their students on questions they may have about graduate schools and first jobs in industry. Participating students will learn about relevant classes, useful resources and instructive mentor experiences.

“BU ENG does a great job at bringing in accomplished engineers to talk to BU students,” said Young. “However, they don’t have many young alums coming back to discuss what lessons they learned during their first year out of college, what recent struggles they had to overcome and what they wished they had done while in school. The YAMP program is focused more on the next five years rather than the next 40 years.”

Participating students sign up for a minimum of six months of e-mail, phone or in-person exchanges with their mentor starting in November, but may also access other mentors via e-mail or at one or two informal networking events per semester in the Boston area. YAMP’s 23 original mentors, all friends of the program’s three organizers, represent diverse career paths and geographical locations.

Prospective junior and senior students and alumni mentors may contact the organizers at engyamp@bu.edu to find out more about the program or register. Approved mentors are required to sign up as part of the BU Career Advisory Network.

Prager and Young, both mentors of high school girls through their jobs and members of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), conceived the program when Young appeared on a panel at an SWE event in February. After the event, a few students told Young that her advice was particularly helpful because it related directly to their career paths over the next few years, rather than 20 years out of college.

In subsequent months Prager and Young founded YAMP and invited Zavadil to join the team as a third coordinator. All three envisioned starting an e-mail exchange where young alums could share their experiences and mistakes associated with undergraduate and postgraduate life — and thus enable juniors and seniors to enter graduate school or industry with greater confidence.

In her first days on the job as a quality engineer for DePuy Spine, a Johnson & Johnson company, Prager wondered if she had sufficient knowledge of engineering and medicine to succeed.

“What I realized as I started work was that companies will always provide the necessary training for any job, and that my background from BU really did prepare me for the job,” she said. “I think that reassurance would have been great my senior year of college.”

During her senior year at BU, Young sought a non-engineering job in healthcare consulting but had a difficult time finding relevant resources. A year after she landed her first job as an analyst at Observant, LLC, a consultant advised her to always be proactive, even if that meant logging extra hours to pursue attractive projects.

“By doing so I was exposed to more aspects of the job, learned about different therapeutic areas and established myself as a hard worker who is always willing to learn,” Young said.

Assisted only in logistical matters by the ENG Alumni Relations Office and Career Development Office, YAMP has drawn an enthusiastic response from ENG Dean Kenneth Lutchen.

“As dean, one of my most gratifying roles is seeing alumni go on to have successful careers and then return to Boston University to inspire and engage the next generation of our engineering community,” Lutchen wrote in an introductory letter to prospective mentors. “The mentoring experience is one that can be incredibly valuable, and your willingness to extend a hand to current students is deeply appreciated.”