Claudette MacKay-Lassonde Graduate Scholarship
The late Claudette MacKay-Lassonde , P.Eng., was a pioneer for women and a leader in the engineering community. Founder of CEMF, she built the Foundation along with other concerned professional engineers in response to the killing of 14 women engineering students at École Polytechnique in 1989. She held degrees in chemical engineering, nuclear engineering and business and was passionate about supporting women in engineering. Her daughter Julie, also an engineer, is a CEMF Board Director.
In Ms. Lassonde’s memory, one $15,000 scholarship is granted to a woman studying engineering full-time at the PhD level. Applicants must be Canadian citizens or have a Permanent Resident Card, and must have one of the following: a. An undergraduate degree from an accredited Canadian engineering program b. A P.Eng. OR c. Received or applied for Engineer in Training or Junior Engineer status with their provincial association.
This is an ambassadorial scholarship and applicants must demonstrate they are leaders, ambassadors for the profession and serve as role models for other women who dream of becoming an engineer.
Click here to download the 2015 Scholarship Criteria, which includes all eligibility requirements, guidelines for documents, an application form and an application declaration. Deadline to apply is January 16, 2015
Cliquez ici pour télécharger les critères d’admissibilité pour les bourses 2015. Vous y trouverez aussi les directives concernant la documentation, le formulaire de demande et la déclaration de la candidate. La date limite pour formuler une demande est le vendredi 16 janvier 2015.
Our scholarship criteria have been prepared in English and in French in accordance with Foundation policy. Nevertheless, in the event of inconsistency, the English version will apply.
2014 Winner
We are proud to announce that Frances Lasowski, from the McMaster University, was selected as the 2014 CEMF Claudette MacKay-Lassonde scholarship receipient. Congratulations Frances!