{"id":13088,"date":"2024-05-03T01:45:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T01:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2024-04-24T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T11:48:47","slug":"asme-foundation-800k-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/asme-foundation-800k-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"ASME Foundation $800k Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ASME Foundation has been awarded an $800,000 multi-year grant from ECMC Foundation to help underserved community college and CTE students persist to graduation and enter the technical workforce or transition to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering or related technical field.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ECMC Foundation is a national foundation whose North Star goal is to eliminate equity gaps in postsecondary completion by 2040.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ASME Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the world\u2019s premier professional society for multidisciplinary engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The two-year grant, Accelerating Engineering Pathways for CTE Students in a COVID-Changed World, expands ASME\u2019s Community College Engineering Pathways program to a total 15 community colleges (including five minority-serving institutions) and helps implement and evaluate STEM-focused activities and resources, which include work-based learning programs and professional networks for underserved students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ASME Foundation is proud to partner with ECMC to open doors of opportunity for underserved students seeking to transition from community college to high-paying, in-demand careers in engineering-related fields,\u201d said Stephanie Viola, executive director of the ASME Foundation and managing director of ASME Philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis significant grant advances our work to build the technical workforce for the 21st Century while closing the equity gap that leaves too many women, rural learners, and students of color behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ASME\u2019s Community College Engineering Pathways program connects community college and continuing technical education students to opportunities for specialized training, internships, apprenticeships, and jobs. At the same time, it provides resources to community colleges to expand their employer networks and align curricula to the needs of local and national employers.<\/p>\n<p>A companion program, HBCU Engineering Pathways, helps engineering students at historically Black colleges and universities expand their professional networks, participate in ASME student sections and activities, and connects employers to graduates of HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cASME\u2019s project builds necessary capacity across existing successful engineering programs to improve student persistence, completion, and post-graduate employment outcomes,\u201d said Anna Fontus, program officer at ECMC Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project will generate new learnings on best practices in the field, and encourage increased collaboration between industry associations and community colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13089\" style=\"width: 944px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13089\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"934\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50.png 934w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50-768x424.png 768w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50-400x221.png 400w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50-440x243.png 440w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50-650x359.png 650w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50-588x325.png 588w, https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Screenshot-2024-04-24-at-12.42.50-688x380.png 688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 934px) 100vw, 934px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ASME Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), supporting an array of programs in three core pillars: engineering education, career engagement, and global development.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, more than three million technical jobs are currently unfilled in the United States. Contributing to the employment gap is a severe equity gap, with women representing only nine percent of U.S. mechanical engineers and members of BIPOC communities only 11 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The ASME Foundation\u2019s philanthropic programs in engineering education, career resources, and innovation support aim to correct these inequities by empowering more people from underrepresented groups to pursue technical careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ASME Foundation has been awarded an $800,000 multi-year grant from ECMC Foundation to help underserved community college and CTE students persist to graduation and enter the technical workforce or transition to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering or related technical field. ECMC Foundation is a national foundation whose North&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/asme-foundation-800k-grant\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[666,10813,8569,10815,10814,553],"class_list":["post-13088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-featured","category-news","tag-asme","tag-asme-foundation","tag-bureau-of-labor-statistics","tag-ecmc","tag-ecmc-foundation","tag-stem"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ASME Foundation $800k Grant - Find A Distributor Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.findadistributor.com\/news\/asme-foundation-800k-grant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ASME Foundation $800k Grant - Find A Distributor Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The ASME Foundation has been awarded an $800,000 multi-year grant from ECMC Foundation to help underserved community college and CTE students persist to graduation and enter the technical workforce or transition to a four-year institution to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering or related technical field. 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