Our Work
EiF Grants 1998
Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering
National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO
$5,000
Contact: Lionel V. Baldwin, 970-495-6473
"Discover Engineering!" video
Women in Engineering
Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Boston, MA
$13,000
Contact: Lisa A. Ackerman, P.E., 781-275-0494,
Outreach programs that send engineers into schools as role models
Cooper Union, New York, NY
$75,000
Contact: Eleanor Baum, Ph.D., 212-353-4285
Women Engineers Breakthrough (WEB) program, a leadership training initiative for women engineers
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
$30,440
Contact: Linda Ann Riley, 505-646-4923
Three industrial engineering experience modules directed at middle school girls
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
$75,000*
Contact: Barbara Bogue, 814-863-5790,
Hands-on orientation program for female students with networking and mentoring components
Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Troy, NY
$18,090
Contact: Vicki Lynn, 518-276-6203
Workshop for high school girls on opening the way to careers in engineering
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
$35,521
Contact: Kauser Jahan, Ph.D., P.E., 609-256-4609
Introducing engineering to female students through hands-on experiments and industrial plant trips
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
$83,202*
Contact: Julie Spoerre, Fran Harackiewicz, Lizette Chevalier, 618-453-7832
Development of materials addressing gender-equity techniques for high school science and math modules
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
$10,000
Contact: Jan Rinehart, 409-847-8887
SWE summer camp for fifty 7th and 8th grade girls to consider engineering as a career choice
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
$73,020*
Contact: Carla Trujillo, Ph.D., 510-643-6443,
carlat@coe.Berkeley.edu
Interactive Theater Project focused on creating a more equitable classroom learning environment
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL
$15,040
Contact: Susan A. Linnemeyer, 217-244-3517
Summer residential program for middle school girls to learn about engineering
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
$15,000
Contact: Sandra Ingram, Ph.D., 204-474-9698,
ingram@cc.UManitoba.CA
Phase 2 of pilot study on gender and modes of collaboration in engineering
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
$14,500
Contact: Cheryl Morris, 301-405-3931
One-week summer in engineering programs for 60 female high school students
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
$57,804
Contact: Linda Swoboda, 402-472-3738
Multimedia technology approach to recruitment of women in engineering
University of Texas at El Paso/University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
$184,910*
Contact: Mary Besterfield-Sacre, 412-624-9836,
mbsacre@engrng.pitt.edu
Multi-institutional benchmarking study of the effects of gender and ethnicity on retention success
Information Access in Developing Countries
University of Cape Town Fund, New York, NY
$22,626
Contact: Margaret Touborg, 212-856-0130,
uctfund@aol.com
Resources for multimedia studio focused on mechanical engineering
University of Cape Town Fund, New York, NY
$61,677
Contact: Margaret Touborg, 212-856-0130,
uctfund@aol.com
Chemical engineering exchange program between the Universities of Cape Town and Zambia
*Represents a multi-year grant
