2011

ASCE Met Section, National Engineers Week Future City Competition

A national program to encourage interest in science, math and engineering among middle school students, who compete by designing a city using SIM City software, write an essay about the city, and make a scale model of the city and present it to a panel of judges.

$500

Engineers Without Borders

Support for two projects by EWB chapters at the University of Maryland College Park and Princeton University. The Maryland chapter is designing and building a sustainable stream crossing in Addis Alem, Ethiopia, to provide 30,000 people with safe access to markets during the rainy season. The Princeton chapter is building a school library in Ashaiman in the greater Accra Region of Ghana.

$25,000

Global Orphan Project

Support for the Global Orphan project, in collaboration with 360 Architecture, to support design and construction of an orphanage and school in Haiti, and an A/E educational component.

$15,000

GeoHazards International

Improving school earthquake safety in rural Peru. Funds will be used primarily to support training of Peruvian civil engineering students and constructing school seismic upgrades.

$15,000

Haiti Housing Collaborative

The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation awarded a grant to the Haiti Housing Collaborative (HHC) for its ongoing work to support individuals and communities in Haiti still recovering from the 2010 earthquake.

$6,340

Planning Land Use with Students Program (PLUS) of Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation awarded a grant to the Planning Land Use with Students Program (PLUS) of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University’s Earth Institute for its ongoing work in the New York metropolitan area.

$5,000

2010

NYU/Poly

Scholarships for two students studying engineering or architecture, Andrew Bowen and Jacques Daoud.

$10,000

Engineers Without Borders, Michigan Technological University Chapter

A Thornton Tomasetti Foundation EWB Project Grant has been awarded to the Michigan Technological University Student EWB Chapter for their work on a Community Health and Nutrition Center in El Porvenir, Honduras.

$5,625

Engineers Without Borders, University of Pennsylvania Chapter

A Thornton Tomasetti Foundation EWB Project Grant has been awarded to the University of Pennsylvania Student EWB Chapter for their work on the Bome Valley Schools Hygiene and Sanitation project in Mbengwi, Cameroon.

$5,625

Lehigh University

The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation awarded a $15,000 scholarship to Eddie M. Guerra, a student at Lehigh University.

$15,000

Lehigh University

Second year of support for the Master of Engineering in Structural Engineering Program.

$15,000

Engineers Without Borders, Central Michigan University Chapter

A Thornton Tomasetti Foundation EWB Project Grant has been awarded to the Central Michigan University Student EWB Chapter for their work on a bridge in Gualindo Arriba, El Salvador.

$5,000

Engineers Without Borders, Wisconsin Professional Partners and Marquette University Chapters

A Thornton Tomasetti Foundation EWB Project Grant has been awarded to the Wisconsin Professional Partners EWB Chapter for their work with the Marquette University Student EWB Chapter on a bridge in Joyabaj, Guatemala

$5,000

Cooper Union

To support students helping develop low-energy mass housing for the urban environment in Ghana and sub-Sahara Africa, applying indigenous construction materials and methods.

$5,000

New York City Public Schools

Distribution of Trilogy Publication’s “Those Amazing Engineers” to New York City elementary and middle schools.

$5,000

16 Schools nationwide

Initiating the Adopt-a-School program for "Those Amazing Engineers."

$5,000

2009

Engineers Without Borders, Cal Poly chapter

The Thornton Tomasetti Foundation has awarded a grant to the Cal Poly chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) for the construction of a healthcare clinic in Camilo Ortega, Nicaragua.

$9,000

Pennsylvania State University

Engineering senior thesis program.

$32,500 over three years

NYU-Poly, New York

One scholarship awarded to Yasmina Khan, a student at New York University’s College of Arts and Sciences who will take a course at NYU-Poly, and the other to Sebastian Sztukowski, an engineering student at NYU-Poly, who plans to take a course at NYU’s College of Arts and Science.

$10,000

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

For the exhibition, "Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward,"* a collaboration between the museum and the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. (See Paul Goldberger's May 25, 2009 story in The New Yorker, "Spiraling Upward: Celebrating 50 Years of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.")

$10,000

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ill.

Danny Lee Dian Woon, a junior civil engineering student, received the first Eli W. Cohen Scholarship in memory of the structural engineering pioneer who helped shape the Chicago skyline.

$25,000 endowment for the Eli W. Cohen Scholarship

Duke University, Durham, N.C.

Under the supervision of Dr. David E. Schaad, a group of engineering students are building a bridge near Oruru, Bolivia to help transport people, crops and livestock from the rural communities of the Iruma River valley.

Follow the team's progress on their blog.

$8,000

2008

Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pa.

Elizabeth Bava, student in the Masters of Engineering program. This scholarship was based upon the establishment of the Masters of Engineering program.

$15,000

Urban Assembly School of Design & Construction, New York, N.Y.

Award in honor of David Thurm to Gar Yan Yeung, a top-ranking senior from the first graduating class of UASDC.

$5,000

New York University

Scholarships to students Welkinson Robert (engineering) and Matthew Bouton (architecture), in honor of the affiliation of NYU and Polytechnic Institute.

$15,000