Our Work
EiF Grants 2016
Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering
Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD
$22,687
Contact: Dr. Raenita Fenner, 410-617-2512, rafenner@loyola.edu
Integrating writing into engineering labs by developing curriculum, supporting faculty, and creating a Writing Fellows program
Milwaukee School of Engineering, Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
Contact: Joseph Musto, 414-277-7455, musto@msoe.edu
Pilot program to teach design engineering students to communicate with manufacturing personnel using a design/build experience
Women in Engineering
Black Girls Code, Oakland, CA
$15,000
Contact: Kimberly Bryant, 510-398-0880, kbryant@blackgirlscode.org
Expand the Black Girls Code Clubs into three middle schools and create a pipeline of girls of color into tech fields
Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA
$14,654
Contact: Celine Manoosingh, PhD, 912-478-6266, cmanoosingh@georgiasouthern.edu
EMERGE program: summer series for middle-aged girls that presents different engineering disciplines and follow-up mentoring through high school
Girls Inc. of Chattanooga, Chattanooga,TN
$10,000
Contact: Phil Trammell, 423-624-4757, ptrammell@girlsincofchatt.org,
www.girlsincofchatt.org
Support for the Build IT program, where middle school girls from low-income communities explore design, information technology, math and STEM careers
James Ogunbor Education Foundation, Lagos State, Nigeria
$8,400
Contact: Itohan Ogbebor, +2347013416012, itohan@joefng.com, www.joefng.com
3- Day technology workshop/training for public secondary school girls in Lagos State
Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
$24,997
Contact: Ronke Olabisi, PhD, 848-445-6687, ronke.olabisi@rutgers.edu
Recruitment of underserved women into tissue engineering research courses and introducing them to course-based research experiences
WAAW Foundation (Working to Advance African Women), Wylie TX
$25,480
Contact: Unoma Okorafor, 979-574-3453, unoma@waawfoundation.org
Establishment of the African Women Engineering, Leadership & Entrepreneurship (AWELE) Academy in Lagos Nigeria, a technology training and coding school
YWCA, New York, NY
$5,000
Contact: Jerin Arifa, 212-735-9708, jafifa@ywcanyc.org
Added programming and participants for the Geek Girls Club STEM program
Information Access in Developing Countries
Islamic University College, Ghana, Accra, Ghana
$19,334
Contact: Safianu Omar, +233 268 138326,
library@iug.edu.gh; www.iug.edu.gh
Digitization of tattered and old materials, enhancement of faculty repository system and acquisition of e-books and computer systems for the engineering library
