Our Work
EiF Grants 2015
Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering
Clemson University, Clemson, SC
$17,528
Contact: Devon Stein, 864-656-7013, dastein@clemson.edu
Cross-disciplinary collaboration to develop a course in oral and visual communications for civil engineering students and to assess student outcomes
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
$24,993
Contact: Abbas Rashidi, 865-974-7714, rashidi@utk.edu
Innovative professional workshop series to enhance communication skills pertinent to construction engineering students
Women in Engineering
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ
$15,000
Contact: Jessica Ortiz, 201-253-1473, jortiz@lsc.org
Support of equipment and materials for the "Girls in Technology - Our Digital Life" workshop series presented to at-risk female middle school students
Griffith University, Brisbane, AU
$5,000
Contact: Bridget French, +617 3735 9270, bridget.french@griffith.edu.au
Griffith Engineering Girls' Day, a full-day program of discipline specific engineering activities and hands-on engineering applications for female students in Years 10-12
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
$19,500
Contact: Nadeane D. Howard, 614-292-9065, Howard.1149@osu.edu
Improving retention of females by empowering male students as allies within an engineering college
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Empowering Male Students as Allies for Gender Equity Within an Engineering College
Penn State Berks, Reading, PA
$18,685
Marietta Scanlon, 610-396-6126, mrs35@psu.edu
Multi-dimensional program to increase recruitment and retention of females in engineering using practicing engineers and female undergraduates as role models and mentors to middle school girls
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http://sites.psu.edu/fierce/
Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD
$4,996
Contact: Chrys Egan, 410-677-5436, cnegan@salisbury.edu
Create "Engineer Girl" computer engineering program to serve diverse Wicomico County, MD middle-school girls
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
$11,000
Contact: Kristen Palumbo, 301-405-2150, kpalumbo@umd.edu
Expanded programming for Flexus, a living and learning community for female engineering students with the primary goal of increasing student retention
YWCA NYC, New York, NY
$15,000
Contact: Cristina Morais, 212-735-9708, cmorais@ywcany.org
Deeper focus on engineering for the Geek Girls Club STEM program
Information Access in Developing Countries
Engineers Without Borders - South Africa, Johannesburg
$25,000
Contact: - Wiebke Toussaint,
wiebke@ewbsa.org; www.ewbsa.org
Development of the Project Roots Platform, a web portal designed to centralize knowledge about engineering projects and improve resource sharing for engineering students and professional engineers
Engineers Without Borders - UCLA, Los Angeles
$5,000
Contact: Kyla Wilson, 760-855-2552, kmwilson@ucla.edu
Education program to train the community in sustainability efforts in the design of schoolhouse project in Nicaragua
WAAW Foundation (Working to Advance African Women), Wylie TX
$24,480
Contact: Unoma Okorafor, 979-574-3453, unoma@waawfoundation.org
Support for residential camps in Nigeria & Kenya for 50 senior secondary school girls to promote hands-on STEM learning
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WAAW Foundation STEM Camp
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA
$24,544
Contact: Karen Kashmanian Oates, 508-831-4677, koates@wpi.edu
Development of a role-playing classroom simulation that introduces students to an engineering problem based in Morocco that requires high levels of interpersonal and communications skills
