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EiF Grants 2009

Enhancing Communication and Use of Information in Engineering

GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GA
$24,820
Contact: Brandi Orbin, 404-894-6894,
brandi.orbin@dev.gatech.edu
Measurement system to evaluate professional presentations by engineering students
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Building a Stakeholder-Based Rubric to Enhance Student Communication Skills

Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
$14,819
Contact: Laura Stanley, PhD, CPE, 406-994-1399,
laura.stanley@ie.montana.edu
Integration of an engineering communications toolkit into the engineering curriculum


Women in Engineering

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
$25,000
Contact: Rebecca Sellars, 575-646-6128,
rsellars@nmsu.edu
Development of female-oriented programming to support enrichment activities that promote girls' interest in science and engineering

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
$7,000
Contact: Liisa Franzen, 240-895-4282,
lefranzen@smcm.edu
Summer science camp for middle-school girls featuring hands-on enrichment activities

University of Maine, Orono, ME
$9,959
Contact: Chet Rock, PhD., PE, 207-581-2216,
Chet_Rock@umit.maine.edu
Partnership with 4-H Maine to provide "Engineering Awareness Days"

WEPAN, Denver, CO
$20,000
Contact: Diane Matt, 303-871-4642,
dmatt@wepan.org
Creation of an instructional unit to improve interactions between engineering faculty and women engineering students, and disseminate at 5 engineering schools


Information Access in Developing Countries

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