Our Work
EiF Grants 2020
Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
$24,549
Contact: Sheila Arnold, 970-491-1559, Sheila.Arnold@colostate.edu
Integration of professional communication instruction in the construction management curriculum
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
$24,890
Contact: Mona Eskandari, eskandar@ucr.edu
Redesign of engineering curricula with an explicit focus on enhancing technical communication as a life-long skill
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
$20,000
Contact: Atefe Makhmalbaf, atefe.makhmalbaf@uta.edu
Empirical examination of gamified flipped classroom for improving students’ technical communication skills
Women in Engineering
Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA
$22,000
Contact: Kristina Rigden, 909-979-5506, karigden@cpp.edu
Increase recruitment and retention rates through the WEM3UR (Women in Engineering Multi Mode Mentoring and Undergraduate Research) Program
MORE:
Women in Engineering Multi-Mode Mentoring and Undergraduate Research (WEM3UR): Semester 1
Insight into Diversity - September 2021, page 48
James Ogunbor Education Foundation (JOEF), Lagos State, Nigeria
$16,360
Contact: Odegua Florence Ogunbor, +2348029706075, odegua@joefafrica.org
Retention effort to help undergraduate women engineers in universities in Nigeria and Kenya understand common challenges in the workplace and how to overcome them
MORE:
Traversing the Challenges Encountered by Women Engineers in the Workplace (Nigeria and Kenya)
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
$15,000
Contact: Barbara Blount Armstrong, 443-885-3361, Barbara.barmstrong@morgan.edu
Increasing exposure to engineering for middle school girls in Baltimore City
Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
$14,900
Contact: Martha Nealer, 856-256-4500 x 52408, nealer@rowan.edu
Project REDEFINE: redefining the role of women in SMET through a SWE-led outreach program
Santa Clara University SWE, Santa Clara, CA
$2,985
Contact: Arianne Soriano, scu.swe.plus@gmail.com;
SWE++, a free program that teaches middle school girls how to code, with special emphasis on recruiting students from low-income schools
MORE:
Santa Clara University Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA
$14,667
Contact: Mariam Salloum, mariam.salloum@ucr.edu
Community Outreach and Data Science Experience (CODE) program, which exposes middle school girls to computing by introducing computational approaches to data science through a lens of social good
University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD
$24,924
Contact: Mark Brown, Mark.A.Brown@USDDiscovery.com
Establish a cohort of the Rocky Mountain Scholars Program and study the possibilities of developing the program as a national model for engaging women in engineering majors
MORE:
Rocky Mountain Scholars Program: Impact on Female Undergraduate Engineering Students – Social and Academic Support, Retention, and Success
