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Grants: 1997


Availability and Use of Published Information

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Contact: Steven E. Koonin, 818-395-6330
Towards a conference on scholarly communication


$10,000
University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Contact: Zorana Ercegovac, Ph.D., 310-206-9361,
email: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/zer/
URL: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/Leap/Eisa/
Development of a learning portfolio for accessing engineering information in user-centered environments


$28,100
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Contact: Dr. Peter T. Martin, 801-581-6931,
http://www.civil.utah.edu Continuation of a project on educational technology and distance learning


$10,000
Women in Engineering

Catholic University, Washington, D.C.
Contact: Corinna (Cori) E. Lathan, Ph.D., 202-319-5095,
http://www.ee.cua.edu/~lathan/
Workshops for high school girls on opening the way to careers in engineering


$83,500*
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Contact: Cynthia Haller, 919-515-3866,
cindyh@unity.ncsu.edu
Enhancing the retention of women engineers through a team approach


$41,148
Purdue University, Lafayette, IN
Contact: Jane Z. Daniels, Ph.D., 765-494-3889
Program on retention of women in engineering


$9,099
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Contact: Jan Rinehart, 409-847-8887
http://www.tamu.edu/swe
Summer program for 7th and 8th grade girls to encourage pursuit of engineering


$6,000
University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Contact: Sandra Ingram, Ph.D., 204-474-9698,
ingram@cc.UManitoba.CA
Study on gender and modes of collaboration in engineering


$10,000
University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD
Contact: Cheryl Morris, 301-405-3931
One-week summer in engineering programs for 60 female high school students


$13,500
University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Contact: Sherry E. Woods, Ed.D., 512-471-5650
Project to increase the percentage of women who stay in engineering after their first year of study


$7,000
WEPAN Women in Engineering Programs and Advocate Network, Hoboken, NJ
Contact: Susan Staffin Metz, 201-216-5245,
smetz@stevens-tech.edu
Development of a national assessment tool for engineering institutions to improve the climate for women


$74,993
YWCA of the U.S.A., New York, NY
Contact: Prema Mathai-Davis, 212-273-7800
"TechGRRLS" program of events for high school girls to explore technical professions


$25,000
Information Access in Developing Countries

New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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


$18,600
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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
$75,000*

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