UEF Updates

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

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If you would like to have something posted as it relates to your UEF-funded program, please contact Pat Natale at director@unitedengineeringfnd.org

February 2023

AIChE’s 2022 UEF Grant – Risk Based Safety Decision Making for All Engineers – eLearning (online) course

The Center for Chemical Process Safety has created a 6-hour course available to all engineers. The course is comprised of 6 units, a quiz, and awards 6 professional development hours upon completion and is FREE!

The attached document provides some additional details. The link to access the course is below. Please spread the word ! It is available to everyone and is invaluable.

Access the course with this link:
https://www.aiche.org/academy/courses/ela401v01/risk-based-process-safety-decision-making-all-engineers

March 2017

The 50K Coalition Launches Website

The 50K Coalition is a collaborative of more than 40 organizations focused on a bold national goal: to produce 50,000 diverse engineering graduates annually by 2025. The coalition was formed by the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES), the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), the nation’s preeminent diversity engineering organizations, which collectively serve more than 85,000 pre-collegiate, collegiate and professional members. The expertise and more than 188 years of collective experience of the coalition’s founding organizations perfectly position them to tackle the coalition’s goal.

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September 2016

UEF BOD Meeting

Attended the United Engineering Foundation BOD meeting in NYC. Meeting held in IEEE’s 3 Park Avenue offices. UEF was founded in 1904 and includes 5 founding engineering societies: AIChE, AIME, ASME, ASCE and IEEE. Picture shows outgoing UEF President Ian Sadler, UEF Executive Director Patrick Natale and President Bob Stevens. “I’m so honored to be the UEF President.”

Dr. Robert Stevens, PE, is ASCE 2015 President. Bob has served as an UEF Trustee since 2015.

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In 2002, Dr. Belden began serving as the executive director of the United Engineering Foundation, an organization founded in 1904 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie. Comprised of five members— American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—the Foundation’s primary mission is to support engineering and education by, among other means, making grants.
Prior to joining the UEF, he served as the Executive Director of ASME in 1987 to 2002. Belden also served as the executive director and member of the board of trustees of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) for 11 years.
Belden retired from the United States Air Force as a colonel in 1976 after a distinguished 22-year career. His military decorations include the Legion of Merit; and Meritorious Service, Air and Commendation medals.
Belden received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, in 1961. He attended Stanford University, California, and earned a master’s degree in industrial engineering in 1963 and his Ph.D. in 1969. He holds an honorary Sc.D. from Manhattan College, New York. He is an Honorary Member of ASME, a Fellow of IIE. Belden is a registered professional engineer in California.

UEF 2016 Grants

DiscoverE
$77,000 to DiscoverE, to strengthen and expand DiscoverE’s suite of hands-on activities, career resources, and online trainings to help volunteers and educators effectively engage K-12 students in engineering.

Engineering Public Policy Symposium
$28,000 to ASME for a collaborative effort among a large number of engineering societies including ASCE, AIChE, AIME, ASME and IEEE-USA to host an Engineering Public Policy Symposium in 2016.

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