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| Availability and Use of Published Information |
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| Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA Contact: Dr. John R. Hayes, 412-268-3499, jh50@andrew.cmu.edu Evaluate prototype of a stand-alone, interactive online tutor that delivers writing instruction to students in college-level engineering programs |
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$25,000 |
| Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY Contact: Richard S. Thorsen, 718-260-3880, rthorsen@poly.edu Fully integrates a communication skills component into a freshman engineering design course |
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$24,864 |
| Smith College, Northampton, MA Contact: Domenico Grasso, Ph.D., P.E., 413-585-7000, dgrasso@smith.edu Pilot project to incorporate professional communication skills across the engineering curriculum |
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$12,000 |
| Women in Engineering |
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| Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA Contact: Susan Agee, 215-895-5925, susan-agee@drexel.edu Outreach to the all-girls Springside School, focusing on the creation and implementation of an assessment tool to measure impact |
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$15,000 |
| Girls Inc., New York, NY Contact: Jenny Lindstrom, 212-509-2000 ext. 203, www.girlsinc.org "Thinking SMART," a national project to increase girls' skills and interest in science and engineering |
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$29,763 |
| MentorNet, San Jose, CA Contact: Carol B. Muller, Ph.D., 408-924-4061, www.MentorNet.net Evaluate the effectiveness of e-mentoring strategies for women of color in engineering and science |
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$15,500 |
| Mercer University, Macon, GA Contact: Dr. Joan Burtner, 478-301-4127, burtner_j@mercer.edu Retrospective study of freshmen engineering attitudes and persistence towards a college degree |
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$10,000 |
| Mt Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA Contact: Orin Hoffman, 413-538-2238, ohoffman@mtholyoke.edu Design and implementation of an intro to engineering course utilizing Lego Mindstorms, including community-based outreach to middle schools |
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$6,780 |
| Persephone Productions, Washington, DC Contact: Bonnie Erbe, 202-973-0079, BonnieErbe@compuserve.com Dissemination of award-winning segment of "To the Contrary" on women in engineering |
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$10,000 |
| University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ Contact: Ray Umashankar, 520-621-8103, rayu@email.arizona.edu Rapid prototyping as an innovative, instructional, mentoring and recruitment tool for attracting middle-school girls to engineering |
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$20,000 |
| Western Transportation Institute of Montana State University, Bozeman, MT Contact: Susan Gallagher, 406-994-6559, sgallagher@coe.montana.edu Encourage girls' awareness of engineering through interactive exploration of bridges and dams with women engineering students |
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$14,220 |
| * Represents a multi-year grant | ||
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