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American University of Beirut

Pipeline and Mentorship Initiative

The Pipeline and Mentorship Initiative at MSFEA aims at supporting women in STEM and offering mentorship to MSFEA students from high school until after they graduate.

They offer full scholarships to female students in engineering majors through the Maroun Semaan Women Leaders in Engineering program that aims to foster female leaders and agents of change at MSFEA.

Meet the team

	Dr. Elsa Maalouf \| Program Director \| em40@aub.edu.lb Dr. Elsa Maalouf is leading the pipeline and mentorship initiative launched at MSFEA in 2019. She is an assistant professor in the department of chemical engineering and advanced energy. Her plan for the pipeline and mentorship initiative is to provide mentorship for high school and university students and to provide a platform for students to learn about the different engineering fields through events and workshops.
	Rasha Malaeb \| Research Assistant and Event Coordinator \| rzm05@mail.aub.edu Rasha Malaeb is a computer and communication engineer at AUB. She is one of the awardees of Women Leaders in Engineering Full Scholarship awarded by MSFEA. She has been working as an event coordinator under the Pipeline and Mentorship Initiative since Fall 2022. She built the Mentorship Platform for the “Peer2Peer Mentorship” and planned the “Engineering Summer Camp for High School Girls” in 2023, and “Highschool Engineering and Design Day” in 2024. She is involved in brainstorming, poster/content creation, scheduling and executing the programs successfully. She aims at making the utmost from her academic journey at AUB, learning material from her courses and implementing them on the ground through the events she is leading. She aims at empowering other females to continue their education and pursue their dream careers without bounds.