MEANA (Malayalee Engineers Association in North America)
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Malayalee Engineers Association in North America (MEANA) is a non-profit, non-political fellowship of Malayalee engineers in the USA. The primary objective is to provide a platform for sharing common interests of the engineers with Malayalee origin, find resolution for issues and contribute to the betterment of the society as a whole as well as address specific needs of home state Kerala
. Current activities include Project-1000, a scholarship program to support Engineering Education in Kerala,
Project Homeland, a program that has been initiated in 2007 to try and assist various initiatives in Kerala from an engineering standpoint. MEANA also honors outstanding contributions of Malayalee Engineers via its Engineer of the year award every year.
MEANA has its headquarters in Chicago
, IL
, USA
and has started establishing chapters in various states in the USA starting in 2007. The Florida
chapter was the first outside Chicago.
Kerala
or Keralam is an Indian state located on the Malabar coast of south-west India. It was created on 1 November 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by combining various Malayalam speaking regions....
. Current activities include Project-1000, a scholarship program to support Engineering Education in Kerala,
Project Homeland, a program that has been initiated in 2007 to try and assist various initiatives in Kerala from an engineering standpoint. MEANA also honors outstanding contributions of Malayalee Engineers via its Engineer of the year award every year.
MEANA has its headquarters in Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, IL
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
and has started establishing chapters in various states in the USA starting in 2007. The Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
chapter was the first outside Chicago.
Partners in various projects
- Engineering Colleges in Kerala
- Engineers Without Borders (USA)Engineers Without Borders (USA)Engineers Without Borders – USA is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life...