UEF Updates

Engineering Public Policy Symposium
$28,000 – Approximately 100 leaders from over 40 engineering organizations – including the President, President-Elect and Executive Directors from the sponsoring organizations – attended the event which address important public policy issues facing society.

Development of an Engineering Intersociety Web Platform
$124,000 – Support the launch of the IEEE Global History Network (GHN) to accommodate pan-engineering content and recruit other engineering societies to join in this endeavor, in order to move toward the vision of a true pan-engineering site.

DiscoverE Educator Recognition Platform
$68,750 – DiscoverE (National Engineers Week) Increase program participation in the DiscoverE Educator Awards among educators, engineers, and college engineering students, while increasing the public awareness of these amazing educators that are inspiring kids to discover engineering.

Creating an Engineering Competency Model
$50,000 – Developing an engineering competency model was identified as a key priority by the American Association of Engineering Societies’ (AAES’) Lifelong Learning Working Group (“working group”) to help educators, employers, professionals and future engineers understand the knowledge and skills needed to thrive in the workplace.

Engineering for Change Projects
$100,000 – Support development efforts for E4C’s three signature programs and the E4C 2.0 website. These three signature programs include: the E4C Webinar Series, the E4C Appropriate Solutions Evaluation Program (ASEP), and the E4C News Plus program.

Designing for Disaster Teaching Kit
$74,400 – National Building Museum – The nationwide dissemination of an engineering-centered “Designing for Disaster Teaching Kit,” created with UEF funds in 2013. Elevating, enriching, and expanding STEM opportunities for students throughout the United States, the teaching kit inspired by an eponymous exhibition that opened at the Museum in 2014, charts the impact of natural disasters, casts teens in the role of forensic engineers, and offers vivid examples of how engineers and designers directly engage with their communities to help save lives.

“The Next MacGyver” Potential Screenplay
$147,850 – National Academy of Engineering – The project sought ideas for a scripted television show featuring a female engineer character in a leading role. The goal of the competition is to create a TV series that inspires young people, especially women, to pursue careers in engineering.

Engineering Strategies for a Sustainable Food Supply Chain
$62,000 – Develop a workshop to address the global inefficiencies of the food supply chain. These inefficiencies lead to vast amounts of food loss and waste, with associated losses in natural, energy, and water resources, while resulting in adverse environmental and climate impacts. The solutions to these problems will need to be multi-faceted, with engineers playing a lead role in advancing the technological breakthroughs that will create economic drivers.