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DuPage Engineers Plan for 2009 Event

The first DuPage Area Engineers' Week Open House was held in 1985 at Midwest College of Engineering in Lombard, Illinois. In 1986 Midwest College merged with Illinois Institute of Technology to form a new, west-suburban campus called IIT West, now the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus. This west suburban campus of Illinois Institute of Technology has continued to host the annual Engineers Week celebration. The DuPage program is a joint effort among professional engineering and scientific societies, the two area national laboratories, businesses, educational institutions and community organizations. The objective is to communicate what engineering is and what engineers do; attracting young people to careers in engineering, science and technology; and increasing the scientific literacy of the community.

IIT’s Rice Campus is located at 201 East Loop Road, Wheaton. For more information on the DuPage program, visit the program’s web site at http://www.dupageeweek.iit.edu/ or call 630.682.6040.

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