SME Education Foundation

The SME Education Foundation announced its support of Manufacturing Day, a national grassroots movement created to shine a bright and flattering light on manufacturing, set for October 5, 2012.

The collaboration of SME Education Foundation Board members, Ted Peachee and Ashok Agrawal fostered $126,000 in grant funding from Emerson Charitable Trust to support PLTW activities surrounding K-12 pre-college programs and FIRST Robotics.

The SME Education Foundation has grant-funded $100,000 to Edge Factor producers for “Metal & Flesh,” created to elevate and celebrate manufacturing engineering innovation. Twittering Gen Y is giving the new series high-fives.

SME Education Foundation supports humanitarian community-based efforts of Calera High School pre-engineering students traveling to Honduras to teach locals how to build a BUV and fitting local amputees with prosthetics they designed and built.

SME Education Foundation commits $100,000 to help PLTW schools upgrade Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) classroom equipment.

Ashok K. Agrawal, M.S., P.E, a member of the SME Education Foundation Board of Directors, has been acknowledged by ASEE as a leader exemplifying the best in engineering and engineering technology education with their 2012 James H. McGraw Award.

The SME Education Foundation has grant-funded the Shop Rat Foundation $25,000 for the development and implementation of PRIME (Partnership Response in Manufacturing Education).

Funded by the SME Education Foundation, the annual National Robotics Challenge (NRC) helps students develop their skills in creativity, engineering, problem-solving and leadership.

The SME Education Foundation has provided a $25,000 grant to the Science Center of Pinellas County Florida for a new Design Engineering and Manufacturing Education Program and MSSC Production Technician certification for students.

The Gene Haas Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Haas Automation, Inc., has invested in the development of a new SkillsUSA Machining Championship Award Program.