Thank you for your grant to support the “The Next MacGyver” project, which allowed world-wide crowd-sourcing of ideas for a TV show featuring an female engineer lead character and engaging top Hollywood talent to provide a real shot at making that long-desired goal happen. It is inspiring and refreshing to know there are organizations like yours willing to take on “outside-the-box” ideas that could have outsized impact."
Randy Atkins, Director of Communications, National Academy of Engineering
Grantee Spotlight: Engineering Ethics Videos
The goal of the project was to sponsor a series of two-hour ethics programs for students of all engineering disciplines. The programs were intended to be offered live at a number of selected engineering universities, which were chosen on the basis of the size of the engineering student body, geographic distribution of the selections, and scheduling availability. The programs consisted of a panel presentation developed by and featuring engineering professionals from several of the major engineering disciplines, each of whom was selected on the basis of his/her expertise and demonstrated a commitment to engineering ethics and professional issues.
Grantee Spotlight - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Best Practices in Engineering Series
This video series was sponsored by the UEF and produced by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The series features interviews with practicing engineers and engineering academicians discussing the relationship between DEI and its relevance to the engineering profession focused on the following three topics – expanding the K12 pipeline, sustainability, and universal design.
Download the final report summarizing the results of the Ethics Education Program Series.