BMW awards grants to ASME Student Sections for 2002-03

Mary James Legatski
Public Affairs Program Manager

Through its Diversity Action Grants (DAG) program, the Board on Minorities and Women recently awarded $17,400 in grants to 14 ASME student sections for the 2002-03 academic year.

The DAG Program provides funding, on a competitive basis, for projects that promote diversity within the student section, foster the career development of minority and women engineers, and build collaborative partnerships with other minority and women's engineering societies on campus.

The ASME Student Sections that follow are listed with the amount of their award and their project description.

Arkansas Tech University, $1,000: An aerospace design workshop tailored to interest female and minority students in math, physics and engineering through the design, assembly and testing of bottle rockets with the use of rocketry design software.

Cal State, Northridge, $1,500: A one-day Young Engineers Day to promote awareness in engineering for 9th and 10th grade minorities and females.

Drexel University, $1,500: A poster series highlighting women and minority pioneers in aviation and aerospace.

Georgia Institute of Technology, $1,500: ASME Diversity Day, featuring workshops, technical activities, a design contest and speakers, will focus on attracting high school females into the engineering disciplines.

Lamar University, $800: A rubberband-powered car competition to encourage high school females and minorities to pursue an engineering education.

North Carolina A&T State University, $1,500: A one-day event designed to attract under-represented minorities and women into mechanical engineering.

Oregon Institute of Technology, $1,500: An outreach program to local high schools to encourage minorities and females to choose a mechanical engineering education.

Purdue University School of Technology, $960: "The Changing Face of Engineering," a poster series featuring women in mechanical engineering.

Rowan University, $1,500: "Engineering is Great for All," a one-day outreach event targeting local high school students.

University of Alabama, $1,000: An outreach program for pre-college young women interested in pursuing careers in mechanical engineering.

University of Hartford, $1,500: "Engineering for All," an outreach program for local students to promote engineering education.

University of Puerto Rico, $750: A one-day outreach program focused on young women high school students, featuring women engineers as speakers on careers in engineering.

Virginia Tech, $1,500: "Engineering Perspective Conference," a one-day event promoting diversity in engineering to local high school students.

Youngstown State University, $850: Tutorial sessions for local high school students to encourage them to enroll in engineering curricula.

Promotion of the 2003-2004 DAG program will commence in late spring. The application deadline for project funding for the 2003-2004 academic year program is Nov. 1. More information on the DAG Program, as well as the grant application, is available at https://secure.asme.org/BMWDAGApp/grant.cfm.

For more information on the DAG program, contact Mary James Legatski at legatskim@asme.org or (202) 785-3756.

 

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