Cooperative education, a new paradigm of education, is a educational method of combining classroom-based education with practical work experience. To obtain appropriate learning experience during the work period, industrial mentors who provide beneficial advice and instruct students, are needed. Industrial mentors, basically, performs various roles in helping students to make the experiential learning efficiently, and the scope of their role is broad. In this paper, we classified the role of industrial mentors, proposed appropriate operating models and described the detail of their responsibilities.