Dr. Ahmad Najafi and colleagues in Drexel’s MEM and ECE department have been awarded funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for their project entitled Awards to Increase Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Diversity (AIME). Dr. Najafi (MEM), Dr. Jennifer Atchison (MEM), and Dr. Gail Rosen (ECE) established the AIME project to “partner with local STEM education stakeholders to recruit and retain talented, under-resourced students (Black, Indigenous, and people of color and female populations) in the Philadelphia area to pursue Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Bachelor’s degrees at Drexel University. ” The project was awarded the NSF’s S-Stem Grant and will directly support under-resourced students in the pursuit of engineering education.
Dr. Najafi in particular would like to recognize the support of MEM department head Dr. Jonathan Spanier and Drexel’s College of Engineering in supporting this initiative.