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For the more than 250 optimists who attended the ASME Foundation’s Optimism Engineered gala on April 11, the future’s looking brighter than ever.

Empowering
Future Visionaries.

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Engineers are not born… we are made. This is the daily work of the ASME Foundation and the powerful philanthropic programs it funds.
Gwendolyn Boyd, PhD

Former President,

Alabama State University

ASME Campaign Cabinet
With the financial assistance granted from these awards, I can now achieve my career goals. My goal is to be a driving force that causes progress in the world!
Philip Smith

Production Support Engineering Intern,

Collins Aerospace

ASME Scholarship Recipient
Filling the employment needs of the tech community, and creating opportunities for more diverse young people, requires exactly the kind of partnerships that ASME is facilitating.
Chandrakant Patel

Chief Engineer and Senior Fellow,

HP, Inc.

ASME Fellow
It is hard to feel the impact of your engineering work, but E4C emphasized this impact. There was a sense of heart, humility, and community while working on SDG projects.
Shannon Tin Oi Lee

Programs Lead,

University of Toronto

E4C Fellow Alumni
The E4C Fellowship showed me some pathways that I didn’t know before… after the fellowship, I am more clear about this pathway.
Ana Milena Trujillo Castro

Mechanical Engineer,

Columbia

E4C Managing Fellow
ASME membership is really valuable because of the opportunity it gives to connect with other mechanical engineers in different industries.
Columbia Mishra, PhD

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer,

GSITA

ASME Early Career Leadership Program Graduate

Invest in TOMORROW

Join The Movement

Become part of the story.
Provide a future for aspiring engineers.

ASME and ComEd Bring STEM To Life for Fifth and Sixth Graders
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Powerful

Problem Solvers

If we are going to meet our future workforce needs and live up to our values of equal opportunity for all, we simply must do better–and that starts early.
Michelle Blaise

Former Senior Vice President, Technical Services
ComEd, an Exelon Company

ASME K-12 Programs

550,000+

Students Provided Access

3,700+

Schools reached

58%

from Economically Challenged communities

ASME Scholarships Make an Engineering Education Possible
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Defy

Gravity,

Dream Higher than the Stars
All three of my mentees will be the first in their families to go to college. Showing them the possibilities will expose them to ideas that they have not seen before.
Columbia Mishra, PhD
ASME EARLY CAREER LEADERSHIP PROGRAM GRADUATE

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer,
Global Space Industry Trade Association (GSITA)

Expanding DIVERSITY

Currently, only

11%

of mechanical engineers are BIPOC

Only

9%

of U.S. mechanical engineers are women

Fuel Our MISSION

Make an Impact
At Every Step of a Young Engineer’s Journey, ASME is There
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Building

Futures

Requires No Borders
That keeps you going, knowing that there's an organization that really cares about what you're doing.
Eurydice Kanimba, PhD
Three-time ASME foundation scholarship recipient

Thermal Packaging Engineer
IBM

ASME Scholarships

$2.6M

total awarded

557

awardees

52%

Underserved Groups

ASME ISHOW Helps Innovators Improve Quality of Life
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Enabling Innovators to

Impact

a Global Narrative
Customers keep coming to tell us how their children no longer have respiratory problems because there’s no smoke.
Sylvester Oloo
ASME ISHOW WINNER

Operations Lead, PayGo

ASME ISHOW

$1,205,000

worth Of Seed Capital Awarded

230+

Social Impact Enterprises upskilled

36

Countries Benefitted

IMPACT Stories

Meet the visionaries who turn adversity into opportunity, reshaping the world for the better:

ASME and ComEd Bring STEM To Life for Fifth and Sixth Graders
ASME ISHOW Helps Innovators Improve Quality of Life
At Every Step of a Young Engineer’s Journey, ASME is There
ASME INSPIRE Ignites a Passion for Engineering
QuickSee™ Provides Fast, Accurate and Affordable Eyeglass Prescriptions
ASME Volunteers Tell K-12 Students, “DropMEIn!”

CHARGE the Future

Advance Our Mission

Lead the charge to inspire and equip the next generation of engineers.

Empowering Future Visionaries

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