April 2008

Valuable Scholarships Available through The Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation (CEMF)

Promotion, encouragement, scholarship, and education are the basic tenets that drive the goals and achievements of the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation. It is through these principals that the Foundation has been providing inspiration and opportunities for young people, especially women, to choose and pursue exciting careers in engineering.

The Foundation is committed to creating a world where engineering meets the needs and challenges of Canadians by engaging the skills and talents of both men and women alike. The Foundation is dedicated to attracting more women to the engineering profession so they may contribute in a truly inclusive manner. In so doing, they also honour the memory of the 14 women from École Polytechnique whose contributions to Canada ended on December 6, 1989.

Each year up to five scholarships are awarded to women in their first, second or third year of an accredited engineering undergraduate degree program. These $5,000 scholarships are available to students from Canada's five regions. Young women selected to receive these scholarships serve as role models to others and must be willing to promote engineering through visits to local high-schools and in their communities. High marks and academic achievement are not criteria.

Other undergraduate and post-graduate scholarships are also available: 

1. Claudettee McKay-Lassonde Memorial Scholarship - PEGNL's Abigail Steel, P.Eng. has previously received this Foundation scholarship, valued at $15,000. The scholarship recognizes a candidate who has acted as a leader in her community, who has dedicated her time and energy to promoting engineering as a career to young people, who is involved in research and teaching and who is enrolled full-time in a graduate engineering program at the Ph.D. level.
2. The Vale Inco Masters Scholarship program consists of four $10,000 scholarships designed to encourage more women to pursue their studies in mining and metallurgical engineering or related engineering discipline. The scholarship comes with a summer job opportunity with Vale Inco Ltd.
3. The $10,000 AMEC Masters Scholarship in Engineering includes a summer job opportunity at one of the 70 AMEC locations across Canada, and the $5,000 under-graduate AMEC Aboriginal Scholarship in Engineering. 
4. Two $2,500 IBM Canada Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships for young women in electrical, computer, software or computer systems design engineering in their first or second year of study in a Canadian accredited program.
5. Two $2,500 Hewlett-Packard Undergraduate Engineering Scholarships open to all accredited engineering disciplines.

Criteria and guidelines and specific deadlines to apply for each are posted on the website at www.cemf.ca, or telephone 1-866-883-2363 or e-mail: info@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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