New Engineering Scholarships for Women Offered
Canadian women from across Canada are being invited to apply for four new annual scholarships. The Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) has partnered with AMEC and IBM to provide scholarships for women in engineering beginning this fall.
AMEC is funding the new $10,000 AMEC Masters Scholarship in Engineering and the new $5,000 undergraduate AMEC Scholarship in Engineering for Aboriginal Women. Additionally, Masters Scholarship recipients will be offered summer employment at AMEC to ensure that have the opportunity to gain valuable work experience.
IBM is funding the new $2,500 IBM Canada Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships for the first time this fall. These two scholarships are for women in electrical or computer engineering. Both will be awarded annually beginning in October 2006.
These new scholarships will be awarded based on leadership, extracurricular activities and the applicant's dedication to encouraging more women to enter engineering, rather than academic performance. Full criteria and guidelines are available at www.cemf.ca.
The deadline for applications is October 20, 2006. All applications must be postmarked no later than October 20 to be accepted.
CEMF now offers a total of 10 scholarships at the graduate and undergraduate levels for women in engineering. Criteria, guidelines and specific deadlines to apply for each are all now posted on the CEMF website at www.cemf.ca.
CEMF was founded in 1990 to develop scholarship and award programs encouraging women to choose a career in engineering, and in so doing, to honour the memory of the 14 women at École Polytechnique whose contributions to Canada ended on December 6, 1989.