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ABET, Inc., Baltimore, MD Contact: George D. Peterson, Ph.D., P.E., 410-347-7700, www.abet.org Pilot project to improve communication skills of ABET program evaluators |
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$15,000 |
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Rice University, Houston, TX Contact: Linda Driskill, Ph.D., 713-348-6141, driskila@rice.edu Create online instruction modules on intercultural engineering communication to support students working on Engineers Without Borders projects |
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$24,958 |
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University of Louisville, Louisville, KY Contact: Joanna Wolfe, 502-852-0510, joanna.wolfe@louisville.edu Development, evaluation and dissemination of engineering writing exercises bases on a literature review and corpus analysis of engineering discourse |
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$14,000 |
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Women in Engineering |
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Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, East Hartford, CT Contact: - Natalie Real, 860-282-4204, www.ccat.us Project to offer the PACE: Pursuing and Achieving Careers in Engineering program to at-risk and economically disadvantaged minority middle school girls |
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$15,000 |
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Florida International University, Miami, FL Contact: Stephanie Strange, 305-348-1635, Stephanie.Strange@fiu.edu Series of outreach programs and workshops to encourage middle school girls in engineering |
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$7,740 |
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Harvard College, Cambridge, MA Contact: Eric Mazur, 617-495-8729, mazur@physics.harvard.edu Study of interactive teaching techniques to reduce the gender gap in engineering |
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$23,738 |
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Headstart College, Cape Town, South Africa Contact: Retha Roux, 021-448 1534, retharoux@hotmail.com Bridging education program offering intensive instruction in math and science to facilitate access to engineering for disadvantaged women |
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$17,000 |
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Kid's Hope School Jipal, Plateau State, Nigeria Contact: Katniyon Henry David, 08077233408, kidshopeschool@yahoo.com Mentoring project to recruit rural girls into engineering and technology courses involving training of mentors, providing educational materials and equipment |
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$8,088 |
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Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX Contact: Dr. Sherri Frizell, 936-857-2715, ssfrizell@pvamu.edu Identification of factors affecting the retention and attrition of African-American women in computer science and engineering |
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$24,032 |
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University of Evansville, Evansville, IN Contact: Alicia Harris, 812-488-2272, ak52@evansville.edu Expanded programming for the "Options for Girls" summer camp |
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$14,755 |
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University of Houston, Houston, TX Contact: Julie Martin Trenor, Ph.D., 713-743-3299, jmtrenor@uh.edu Research on the affects of ethnicity and cultural background on female students' attitudes and retention in engineering majors |
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$20,650 |
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National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Contact: Volodymyr Shatokha, +38 0562 47 44 33, shatokha@metal.dmeti.dp.ua Training for women in library and language skills for more effective engineering information processing |
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$9,500 |
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Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Contact: Richard Sapon-White, 541-737-3411, Richard.Sapon-White@oregonstate.edu Training in Library of Congress Classification for three technical libraries in the Czech Republic |
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$1,540 |
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Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk, Russia 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 |
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$15,945 |
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University of Botswana, Gabarone, Botswana 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 |
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$16,400 |
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