EiF makes grants to improve worldwide engineering education and practice.
Our grants support developmental, instructional, and training initiatives in two program areas, through enhanced communication skills and increasing women in engineering.
Enhancing Communication Skills in Engineering
We want to assist engineering faculty in transmitting the necessary listening, written, verbal, visual, and graphic communication skills that their students need to be successful engineers. Grants in this program cannot exceed $25,000 US dollars.
Strategy #1- EiF is interested in increasing women in engineering through programs to encourage Middle School Girls in Engineering conducted by engineering educators, or programs designed to improve retention rates of undergraduate women in engineering. Grants in this program cannot exceed $25,000 US dollars.
Strategy #2- Research has shown that the more women are engaged in engineering school, the more likely they are to graduate and become working engineers. Female students who participate in Engineers Without Borders EWB activities fall into this category. To support these types of engagement opportunities for women, EiF created the Women in Engineering - Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Chapter Diversity Funding Program. EiF will support EWB teams that are all-female, or a majority female. The project leader of the team MUST be female. Under this program, EiF will fund a maximum of 2 grants per year of $5,000 each (only) to EWB chapters.
Grant submission deadlines are February 28 and August 31. All proposals are reviewed by EiF’s Board of Directors in April and October. Decisions on applications will generally be made by the end of May and November, following the board meeting.