Our Work
EiF Grants 2011
Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
$10,000
Contact: William Oakes, 765-494-3892,
oakes@purdue.edu
Enhance incorporation of ongoing communication skill development within the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) program
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Integrating Information into the Engineering Design Process
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000
Contact: Steven Blair, 801-585-6157,
blair@ece.utah.edu
Web-based dissemination of engineering communications tools and strategies in the context of capstone design courses
Women in Engineering
Arbutus Middle School, Arbutus, MD
$8,700
Contact - Michael Guarraia,
mguarraia@bcps.org
Afterschool program designed to provide a comprehensive overview of engineering culminating in the design and construction of kinetic sculptures
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Baltimore Sun: Kinetic Sculpture Race participants show mettle with their pedals
Patch: Arbutus Students Design Mobile Bird's Nest
Citrus College, Glendora, CA
$18,851
Contact: Lucia Riderer, 626-914-8763,
lriderer@citruscollege.edu
Multi-component program to increase the number of female students persisting in engineering prerequisite courses and transferring to a baccalaureate degree
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Encourage and Engage Women in Engineering
Community Resource Volunteers, St Johns, MI
$9,900
Contact: Bill Richards, 517-331-4620,
wpr1@juno.com
Increasing enrollment of women in engineering degree programs trough mentoring and linking with regional universities
EduTech, Jamaica Plain, MA
$14,800
Contact: Maru Colbert, 617-272-4141,
profsciwork@gmail.com
STEM enrichment program for under-served girls
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
$15,067
Contact: Rebecca Sellars, 575-646-6128,
rsellars@ad.nmsu.edu
"Wizards of Goddard Hall" - program to increase STEM participation among public school girls with disabilities
Smith College, Northampton, MA
$12,868
Contact: - Borjana Mikic, 413-585-7007,
bmikic@smith.edu
Job shadowing by undergraduate women students to improve interest and retention in engineering
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Presentation Slides, November 2012
South African Women in Engineering, Cape Town, SA
$15,957
Contact: Naadiya Moosajee, +27 (0)21 686 0414,
info@sawomeng.org.za
Recruit high potential girls into engineering through workshops, team building and mentoring in the "GirlEng" program
WAAW Foundation (Working to Advance African Women), Wylie, TX
$11,400
Contact: Unoma Okorafor, 979-574-3453,
unoma@waawfoundation.org
STEM camp for junior secondary school African girls in Abuja, Nigeria
WEPAN, Denver, CO
$20,000
Contact: Diane Matt, 303-871-4643,
dmatt@wepan.org
Follow-up to a 2009 grant to disseminate the "Talk to Me" program, which seeks to improve faculty-student interactions, to 25 additional schools
Information Access in Developing Countries
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
$24,600
Contact: Marianne Gaunt, 732-932-7505,
gaunt@rci.rutgers.edu
Collaboration with the University of Liberia to implement the EAKO (Engineering Access to Knowledge Offline) system for access and use of important published engineering research
