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| National Technological University, Fort Collins, CO Contact: Lionel V. Baldwin, 970-495-6473 "Discover Engineering!" video |
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$5,000 |
| University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Contact: David Rennels, Ph.D., 310-825-1484 Design, pilot and evaluate a web-ready prototype engineering information literacy portal (E-Portal) for 7-12th grade students and teachers |
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$38,200 |
| Women in Engineering |
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| Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA Contact: Julie Pandosh, 805-546-3279 "Expanding Your Horizons" workshop for 7-9th grade girls to encourage pursuit of math, science, technology and engineering |
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$7,500 |
| Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Contact: Francoise Piron, ing., francoise.prion@epfl.ch, and Sylvie Boulanger, dr ing., sboulanger@ksicom.ch Sci/tech recruitment material for 12-15 year old girls, adapted to the Franco-European culture |
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$40,000 |
| Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Contact: Lori C. Bassman, 909-607-1250, lori_bassman@hmc.edu Expansion of Partners in Engineering Problem Solving - PEPS program that trains high school science/math teachers across the nation in "hands-on" engineering methods |
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$12,037 |
| Lima Tech College, Lima, OH Contact: Dr. Cynthia Spiers, 419-995-8331 Girls in Engineering Career Kamp Opportunity (GECKO) to entice ninth and tenth grade females in rural areas to consider engineering |
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$14,900 |
| Radio Bilingüe, Fresno, CA Contact: Hugo Morales, 559-455-5777, http://www.radiobilingue.org Production of radio broadcast "Latinos in Engineering" to educate Latinos about career opportunities in engineering |
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$52,650 |
| Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ Contact: Evelyn F. Hanna, 732-445-2687, evelynh@rci.rutgers.edu Summer programs designed to familiarize middle school girls with the various engineering disciplines and to instill a feeling of mathematical and scientific accomplishment |
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$16,923 |
| SME Education Foundation, Dearborn, MI Contact: Lynn M. Borg, 313-271-1500 ext. 1713 STEPS (Science Tech & Engineering Preview Summer) camp curriculum guide on CD-ROM |
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$18,233 |
| Texas A & M University, College Station, TX Contact: Tricia Draughn, 979,845-7200, Tricia@eapo.tamu.ude Support for high school outreach program, first year orientation program, and second year retention program |
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$30,000 |
| Trinity College, Hartford, CT Contact: David J. Ahlgren, Ph.D., 860-297-2517 Establish a one-year joint program with Swarthmore College as part of a coalition to connect outreach programs at leading liberal arts colleges that offer engineering degrees |
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$35,000 |
| Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA Contact: Dr. Bevlee Watford, 540-7404 Increasing the yield rate of women engineering applicants by expanding a women's preview weekend program |
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$5,130 |
| Information Access in Developing Countries |
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| American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC 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 |
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$50,000 |
| Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow, Russia Contact: Alexei Prazdnitchnykh, prazdn@mx.bmstu.ru Management of Technology Distance Education (MoTDE) project to benefit 5 partnering universities |
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$65,000* |
| Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Oakland, CA 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 |
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$100,000* |
| Iowa State University, Ames, IA 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 |
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$50,000 |
| Mekelle University, Mekelle, Ethiopia Contact: Abdelkader Kedir, abdelkader51@yahoo.com Upgraded engineering resource materials and internet access in rural Ethiopia |
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$61,000 |
| MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA 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 *Represents a multi-year grant |
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$50,000 |
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