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Information Access in Developing Countries
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2009 |
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Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon 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 |
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$15,000 |
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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN 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 |
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$19,820 |
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2008 |
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Goris State University, Goris, Republic of Armenia Contact: Yura Safaryan, 374-0284-2-27-67, safaryan@rambler.ru Establish a digital library for engineering students at Goris State University |
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$15,884 |
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NGO Provincial Women, Bryansk, Russia Contact: Dr. Ludmila Zhirina, +7-9050549533, provincialwomen@gmail.com Expand efforts to recruit girls into engineering in radioactive polluted regions of Russia |
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$12,594 |
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2007 |
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Iowa State University, Ames, IA Contact: Dr. Steven Mickelson, estaben@iastate.edu Improves access to information in engineering and technical subjects for Republic of Georgia community college students |
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$20,600 |
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Jomo Kenyatta Univ. of Agric. & Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Contact: Dr. Wameru Mwangi, 254-67-52711, wameru_mwangi@icist.jkuat.ac.ke Online portal to provide access to computer science resources and opportunities for Kenyan university students |
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$5,500 |
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Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transport and Architecture, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan Contact: Arabidin Kalandarov, +996 (312)56-31-56, arabidin@mail.ru Establishment of a Regional Educational Training Center for Engineers (RETCE) |
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$25,000 |
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2006 |
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National Metallurgical Academy of Ukraine, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine Contact: Volodymyr Shatokha, +38 0562 47 44 33, shatokha@metal.dmeti.dp.ua; www.infomet.com.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; www.ikaros.cz 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 MORE: CPTSC 2006 Conference Presentation Abstracts; Academic literacies in three countries: Argentina, Russia, and Australia (in Session I11); http://www.lib.tsu.ru/mminfo/000349304/01/image/86-95.pdf (Russian) |
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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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2005 |
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| Association AZUR Developpement,
Brazzaville, Congo Contact: Sylvie Niombo, azurdev@yahoo.fr Creation of a documentation and information center on engineering, including a library and internet resources |
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$18,545 |
| Educate the Children,
Ithaca, NY Contact: Adam Swart, 607-272-1176, info@etc-nepal.org School to school program between US and Nepal that promotes technology |
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$1,600 |
| Iowa State University,
Ames, IA Contact: Mary Ann Evans, 515-232-5950, maevans@iastate.edu Partnership program to create an engineering education network in Ukraine and distance education courses for undergraduates |
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$30,000 |
| NGO VIOLA,
Bryansk, Russia Contact: Dr. Ludmila Zhirina, viola@bk.ru Attracting girls into engineering through a series of hands-on activities in partnership with 55 schools in rural Russia |
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$14,840 |
| Penn State University,
Lehman, PA Contact: Willie Ofosu, 570-675-9137, wko1@psu.edu; Design and implement a degree in telecommunications engineering at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tech (KNUST), Ghana MORE: Using Service Learning in an Engineering Program in Ghana; Incorporating Equatorial Environmental Conditions in an Appropriate Technology |
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$23,475 |
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2004 |
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| Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Republic of Mozambique Contact: Boaventura Chongo Cuamba, +258-1-493377, boaventura.cuamba@uem.mz Encourage science and engineering education for rural girls by exposing them to training in renewable energy technology |
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$45,000 |
| Multinational Fund for Development Aid (MUDA), Nairobi, Kenya Contact: Albert Kenyani Inima, mnfund@wananchi.com Improve computer capacity, internet connectivity and engineering library content at the University of Nairobi |
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$18,728 |
| Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Contact: Prof. Madara Ogot, 814-863-1550, mmo100@psu.edu Linking of the University of Nairobi to a consortium of remote-operated mechanical engineering laboratories via the internet |
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$43,000 |
| Universal Library of Sverdlovsk, Ekaterinburg, Russia Contact: Nadezda Tscypina, +7-343-3715352, bibl@library.uraic.ru; http://book.uraic.ru/belinka_online/engineering/ Provide training and support for searching and usage of different information technologies |
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$17,702 |
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2002 |
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| University of Georgia, Athens, GA Contact: William S. Kisaalita, 706-542-0835, williamk@engr.uga.edu Partnership with Makerere University (Uganda) to integrate information and communication technology in engineering education across cultural borders |
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$76,225* |
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2001 |
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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 |
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$50,000 |
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2000 |
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| Bridge to Asia, San Francisco, CA Contact: Jeffrey Smith, 415-356-9040, jasmith@bridge.org, URL: www.bridge.org Outreach to US organizations to obtain used printed material; research into what materials are needed overseas in engineering; development of an online donation site for libraries in China and other developing countries |
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$50,000 |
| Technical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland Contact: Miroslaw Swiercz, (085) 744-30-73, mswiercz@cksr.ac.bialystok.pl Remote Control Laboratory project to network laboratory facilities and provide access to control engineering students which will then be incorporated and replicated at other technical universities in Poland |
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$74,640 |
1999 |
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| Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P.R. China Contact: Dr. SU Zhixun, 86-411-4708455, zxsu@comgi.com Improves the sharing of engineering graphics data in China |
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$75,000* |
| Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile Contact: David A. Fuller, Ph.D., dfuller@ing.puc.cl Distance Education Project |
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$110,050 |
1998 |
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| University of Cape Town Fund, New York, NY Contact: Margaret Touborg, 212-856-0130, uctfund@aol.com Resources for multimedia studio focused on mechanical engineering |
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$22,626 |
| University of Cape Town Fund, New York, NY Contact: Margaret Touborg, 212-856-0130, uctfund@aol.com Chemical engineering exchange program between the Universities of Cape Town and Zambia |
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$61,677 |
1997 |
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| 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 |
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$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 |
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$75,000* |
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