October 2006

New CEMF Scholarships' Deadline

Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF) has announced a number of new scholarships. The deadline for these and all CEMF scholarship applications is October 20, 2006.

AMEC has partnered with CEMF to provide two scholarships: 

1. $10,000 AMEC Masters Scholarship in Engineering, and 
2. $5,000 undergraduate AMEC Scholarship in Engineering for Aboriginal Women.

IBM Canada is also offering two new IBM Canada Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships, valued at $2,500 each, for women in their second or third year of electrical or computer engineering. These scholarships are awarded based on leadership, extracurricular activities and the applicant's dedication to encouraging more women to enter electrical or computer engineering, rather than academic performance.

CEMF now offers a total of 10 scholarships at the graduate and undergraduate levels for women in engineering. Criteria and guidelines and specific deadlines to apply for each are all now posted on the 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 to honour the memory of the 14 women at École Polytechnique whose contributions to Canada ended on December 6, 1989.

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