CEMF Offers 13 Scholarships for Women in Engineering
This year, the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation will be offering 13 scholarships ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 for women in engineering at the undergraduate, masters and Ph.D. levels.
Undergraduates can apply to one of the five $5,000 CEMF Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships (one scholarship given in each region of Canada—Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, Prairies and British Columbia); one of three $10,000 Vale Inco Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships; or the $5,000 AMEC Aboriginal Undergraduate Engineering Scholarship offered to a Canadian Aboriginal woman studying engineering in an accredited program. Additionally, this year, a new $10,000 CEMF 20th Anniversary National Scholarship for Women in Engineering is being offered.
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 who has acted as a leader in her community, who has dedicated her time and energy to promoting engineering as a career, and who is working on her Ph.D. 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 15, 2010.
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.