Our Work
Older EiF Grants: Information Access in Developing Countries
2012
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
$20,000
Contact: Margaret Jollands, Margaret.jollands@rmit.edu.au
A study of gender-based discipline choices in science and engineering
Universidad Don Bosco, San Salvador, El Salvador
$5,663
Contact: Elizabeth Lunik, 503-2251-8238, elizabeth.lunik@udb.edu.sv
Program to support current female students with professional development opportunities, and to recruit female students from low-income high schools in El Salvador
2011
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
2009
Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
$15,000
Contact: Susan Cergol, 212-870-2581,
susan.cergol@lau.edu
Survey of high school girls to determine attitudes about engineering and create outreach programs in civil engineering
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN
$19,820
Contact: Jim Henry, 423-425-4398,
jim-henry@utc.edu
Partnership with the State Engineering University of Armenia (SEUA) to create a remote control lab and courses on information development
2008
Goris State University, Goris, Republic of Armenia
$15,884
Contact: Yura Safaryan, 374-0284-2-27-67,
safaryan@rambler.ru
Establish a digital library for engineering students at Goris State University
NGO Provincial Women, Bryansk, Russia
$12,594
Contact: Dr. Ludmila Zhirina, +7-9050549533,
provincialwomen@gmail.com
Expand efforts to recruit girls into engineering in radioactive polluted regions of Russia
2007
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
$20,600
Contact: Dr. Steven Mickelson,
estaben@iastate.edu
Improves access to information in engineering and technical subjects for Republic of Georgia community college students
Jomo Kenyatta Univ. of Agric. & Technology, Nairobi, Kenya
$5,500
Contact: Dr. Wameru Mwangi, 254-67-52711,
wameru_mwangi@icist.jkuat.ac.ke
Online portal to provide access to computer science resources and opportunities for Kenyan university students
Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transport and Architecture, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
$25,000
Contact: Arabidin Kalandarov, +996 (312)56-31-56,
arabidin@mail.ru
Establishment of a Regional Educational Training Center for Engineers (RETCE)
2006
National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
$9,500
Contact: Volodymyr Shatokha, +38 0562 47 44 33,
shatokha@metal.dmeti.dp.ua
www.infomet.com.ua
Training for women in library and language skills for more effective engineering information processing
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
$1,540
Contact: Richard Sapon-White, 541-737-3411,
Richard.Sapon-White@oregonstate.edu
www.ikaros.cz
Training in Library of Congress Classification for three technical libraries in the Czech Republic
Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia
$15,945
Contact: Evgeniya Suntsova, 3822-563551,
suntsova@lci.tpu.edu.ru
Design a pilot course in technical and professional communication, the first attempt to integrate linguistic and engineering departments at a Russian engineering school
MORE:
CPTSC 2006 Conference Presentation Abstracts
http://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/000349304/01/image/86-95.pdf (Russian)
University of Botswana, Gabarone, Botswana
$16,400
Contact: Boipuso Nkwae, Ph.D.,
nkwaeb@mopipi.ub.bw
Develop a digital resource library for geomatics engineering education in Botswana that would disseminate academic material and provide continuing professional development in land studies
2005
Association AZUR Developpement, Brazzaville, Congo
$18,545
Contact: Sylvie Niombo, azurdev@yahoo.fr
Creation of a documentation and information center on engineering, including a library and internet resources
Educate the Children, Ithaca, NY
$1,600
Contact: Adam Swart, 607-272-1176,
info@etc-nepal.org
School to school program between US and Nepal that promotes technology
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
$30,000
Contact: Mary Ann Evans, 515-232-5950,
maevans@iastate.edu
Partnership program to create an engineering education network in Ukraine and distance education courses for undergraduates
NGO VIOLA, Bryansk, Russia
$14,840
Contact: Dr. Ludmila Zhirina,
viola@bk.ru
Attracting girls into engineering through a series of hands-on activities in partnership with 55 schools in rural Russia
Penn State University, Lehman, PA
$23,475
Contact: Willie Ofosu, 570-675-9137,
wko1@psu.edu
Design and implement a degree in telecommunications engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tech (KNUST), Ghana
2004
Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Republic of Mozambique
$45,000
Contact: Boaventura Chongo Cuamba, +258-1-493377,
boaventura.cuamba@uem.mz
Encourage science and engineering education for rural girls by exposing them to training in renewable energy technology
Multinational Fund for Development Aid (MUDA), Nairobi, Kenya
$18,728
Contact: Albert Kenyani Inima,
mnfund@wananchi.com
Improve computer capacity, internet connectivity and engineering library content at the University of Nairobi
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
$43,000
Contact: Prof. Madara Ogot, 814-863-1550,
mmo100@psu.edu
Linking of the University of Nairobi to a consortium of remote-operated mechanical engineering laboratories via the internet
Universal Library of Sverdlovsk, Ekaterinburg, Russia
$17,702
Contact: Nadezda Tscypina, +7-343-3715352,
bibl@library.uraic.ru
Provide training and support for searching and usage of different information technologies
2002
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
$76,225*
Contact: William S. Kisaalita, 706-542-0835, williamk@engr.uga.edu
Partnership with Makerere University (Uganda) to integrate information and communication technology in engineering education across cultural borders
2001
American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC
$50,000
Contact: Elizabeth J. Kirk, 202-326-6493, ekirk@aaas.org
Establishment of an Engineering Information Center (EIC) for Moldova, and training program for accessing information resources
Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia
$65,000*
Contact: Alexei Prazdnitchnykh, prazdn@mx.bmstu.ru
Management of Technology Distance Education (MoTDE) project to benefit 5 partnering universities
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA
$100,000*
Contact: Marjorie Greene, 510-451-0905, eeri@eeri.org
Creation and dissemination of a web-based encyclopedia of housing construction types in seismically prone areas of the world, linking engineers and architects in over 45 countries
Iowa State University, Ames, IA
$50,000
Contact: Dr. Mary Ann Evans, 515-294-0966, maevans@iastate.edu
Partnership with National Technical University-Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute to introduce distance education to Ukrainian women engineers
Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia
$61,000
Contact: Abdelkader Kedir, abdelkader51@yahoo.com
Upgraded engineering resource materials and internet access in rural Ethiopia
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
$50,000
Contact: Michael L. Best, 617-253-4662, mikeb@media.mit.edu
MIT summer interns in Kenya and Ghana instruct teachers and students in web-related technologies and programming languages
2000
Bridge to Asia, San Francisco, CA
$50,000
Contact: Jeffrey Smith, 415-356-9040,
jasmith@bridge.org, URL: http://www.bridgetoasia.net/ Outreach to US organizations to obtain used printed material; research into what materials are needed overseas in engineering; development of an online donation site for libraries in China and other developing countries
Technical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland
$74,640
Contact: Miroslaw Swiercz, (085) 744-30-73,
mswiercz@cksr.ac.bialystok.pl
Remote Control Laboratory project to network laboratory facilities and provide access to control engineering students which will then be incorporated and replicated at other technical universities in Poland
1999
Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P.R. China
$75,000*
Contact: Dr. SU Zhixun, 86-411-4708455,
zxsu@comgi.com
Improves the sharing of engineering graphics data in China
Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
$110,050
Contact: David A. Fuller, Ph.D.,
dfuller@ing.puc.cl
Distance Education Project
1998
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
1997
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
$18,600
Contact: Edward Pines, 505-646-2730, epines@nmsu.edu
URL: http://www.nmsu.edu/~ie/ethics/ethics.htm
Development of industrial engineering ethics cases for dissemination in English and Spanish to international partners
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
$75,000*
Contact: Dr. Christine S. Grant, 919-515-2317,
grant@eos.ncsu.edu
Development of international environmental/ chemical engineering computer educational aids, a partnership with the University of Science and Technology in Ghana
*Represents a multi-year grant
