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THIS GRANT’S FOCUS: Women/Girls’ Support/Empowerment, Women/Girls in STEM, Engineering Education, STEM Gender Gap
Deadline: Aug. 31, 2026
“Our grants support developmental, instructional, and training initiatives in two program areas, through enhanced communication skills and increasing women in engineering.
- Enhancing Communication Skills in Engineering: We want to assist engineering faculty in transmitting the necessary listening, written, verbal, visual, and graphic communication skills that their students need to be successful engineers. Your project might focus on one or more of these skills, create a method for students to develop the selected skills, implement the method in your curriculum, and then test your approach. Or you might identify an existing model and propose ways to enhance or refine and further test it. We welcome collaborative projects between engineering faculty and communications and/or information science specialists. Also, the earlier the intervention happens in the educational cycle, the better! Grants in this program cannot exceed $25,000 US dollars.
- Women in Engineering:
- Strategy #1- EiF is interested in increasing women in engineering majors primarily through programs to encourage Middle School Girls in Engineering conducted by engineering educators. By high school, it is too late to start a STEM path, however, EiF is interested in grants that will funnel high school girls with good STEM backgrounds specifically to engineering majors. Grants in this program cannot exceed $25,000 US dollars.
- Strategy #2- EiF is interested in programs that will support women currently enrolled in engineering majors to help them successfully reach graduation. Research has shown that the more women are engaged in engineering school, the more likely they are to graduate and become working engineers. Female students who participate in Engineers Without Borders EWB activities fall into this category. To support these types of engagement opportunities for women, EiF created the Women in Engineering – Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Chapter Diversity Funding Program. EiF will support EWB teams that are all-female, or a majority female. The project leader of the team MUST be female. Under this program, EiF will fund a maximum of 2 grants per year of $5,000 each (only) to EWB chapters.”
Funder: Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)
Eligibility: Unspecified
Amount: Up to $25,000 or $5,000
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