CEMF Offers 14 Scholarships for Women in Engineering
This year, the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation will be offering 14 scholarships ranging from $2,500 to $15,000 for women in engineering at the undergraduate, masters and PhD levels.
Undergraduates can apply to the five $5,000 CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships with one scholarship given in each region of Canada – Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and British Columbia; three $10,000 Vale Inco Undergraduate Scholarships; the two $2,500 IBM Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships available for women studying in an accredited electrical, computer, software or computer systems design engineering program (these scholarships also come with a
summer job opportunity); or the $5,000 AMEC Aboriginal Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship offered to a Canadian Aboriginal woman studying engineering in an accredited program.
At the master’s level, there is the $10,000 Vale Inco Master’s Engineering Scholarship and the $10,000 AMEC Master’s Engineering Scholarship – both are open to women studying in any field of engineering. Both scholarships come with a summer job opportunity.
Finally, there is the $15,000 Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Scholarship offered to a woman working on her PhD in engineering.
All scholarships are awarded based on leadership, extracurricular activities and the ability to act as a role model for other women to pursue a career in engineering, rather than on academic achievement. The deadline to apply is January 16, 2009.
For application forms, or to view the criteria for eligibility, please visit the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation website at www.cemf.ca.
The Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation was founded in 1990 to develop scholarship and award programs that encourage women to choose engineering as a career to honour the memory of the 14 women from L’Ecole Polytechnique whose contributions to Canda ended on December 4, 1989.