Fund Solutions to Mining’s Challenges
Your SME Foundation Funding Creates Impact. Together, We Can Make a Difference.
Your contributions to the SME Foundation fund solutions to the mining and minerals industry’s most pressing challenges by supporting education, research, and workforce development initiatives.
Through strategic investment in people and knowledge, the SME Foundation helps ensure the industry is prepared to meet current and future challenges.
View the short video stories below to learn how SME Foundation programs are important in the lives of our members and the difference your support makes in the industry. (approx: 2 mins each)
For more information about how your contributions fund the SME Foundation:
Programs
ABET, Inc
Minerals Education Coalition (MEC)
PhD Fellowship Program
Academic Career Development Grant Program
Professional Engineers Committee
Mining in Society Merit Badge
Miners Give Back
SMEF General Endowment Fund
Syd S. Peng and Felicia F. Peng Ground Control in Mining Award
Scholarships
JH Fletcher & Co Engineering Scholarship
Ernest K. Lehmann Memorial Scholarship
Stantec/McIntosh Engineering Scholarship
MMSA/SME Presidential Scholarship
Syd S. Peng and Felicia F. Peng Ground Control in Mining Scholarship
Raja V. and Geetha V. Ramani Graduate Students Award
George V. Weisdack Memorial Scholarship
Pat Jacomet—MEC Committee Chair
“We need to be engaged in the communities that we work in… making those connections is so important to the industry. The public needs to know why we are doing what we are doing, and why it’s important to their livelihood… if you really want to have a positive impact and change the perception of mining, contribute to the Foundation.”
Jessica Wempen—2019 Career Development Grant Recipient
“It’s really a critical time for all of the programs in the US right now. As a faculty member living through that change… the support of industry and the support of individuals is going to be critical in helping to sustain and change and grow these programs.”
Matt Furniss, PE—Member of the Professional Engineers Exam Committee
“Since we are such an integral piece in supporting [the P.E.] curriculum and auditing the material, we need to have the support of the Foundation to be able to do that, and the Foundation gets its support from its members who feel strongly about it like I do.”