Objective

The New Faces of Engineering strives to promote the accomplishments of young engineers by highlighting their engineering contributions and the resulting impact on society. The campaign is designed to enhance and improve the image of engineering by:

• Putting faces to what has often been referred to as “the stealth profession”;
• Showing a group of young, diverse and talented engineers, thereby portraying engineering as an exciting profession open to everyone;
• Providing both stimulation and incentive for college engineering students to explore the variety of career options available to them with their engineering degrees as well as encouraging high school students to study engineering in college.
• Help students understand they are part of a global profession.

Criteria for Recognition

• Young engineers two to five years out of school are the focus of the recognition program.
• National Engineers Week sponsoring societies will nominate young working engineers from among their membership
• New Faces of Engineering recognizes achievements in all engineering disciplines
• Sponsoring societies of National Engineers Week are eligible to participate
• Societies with international chapters are requested to nominate 2 of their 5 candidates from outside the U.S.

Nomination Process

Each engineering organization is asked to name their top choice as well as up to 4 other individuals. An electronic color and black/white photo (jpg or tif and at least 300 DPI) and a brief description of each individual are required.

Please submit nominations electronically on the nomination form provided. Nominations must be submitted to klcpr@bellatlantic.net by Friday, October 31, 2003.

Recognition

The top individual New Faces will be featured in a full-page ad in USA TODAY during National Engineers Week. Each photo will be captioned with the engineer’s name, name of the engineering society providing the nominee, employer and a brief statement of that individual’s accomplishments as they relate to the public welfare.

National Engineers Week will profile each of the top individuals. The profiles will be posted on the National Engineers Week web site at www.eweek.org and at www.discoverengineering.org, the EWeek web site for middle school students.

The engineering trade press will be targeted for feature stories on the top individuals. The hometown media of all the nominees will be targeted to capture general press coverage.

New Faces provides a unique opportunity to learn from new engineers. EWeek and the engineering societies’ staff will interview the top individuals re: the experiences leading them to select engineering careers, the challenges in making the transition to the work force, and other key experiences that can be used with K-12 and college students.

The additional nominees will be publicized on the EWeek web site and promoted by their sponsoring engineering society.

The top candidates will participate in an e-mail and/or online Question and Answer discussion forum with engineering undergraduates globally at a future date to be determined. Candidates are asked to list languages in which they are fluent.

Engineering Society Responsibilities

Complete the nomination form and submit electronically by Friday, October 31, 2003 to klcpr@bellatlantic.net.

• Please provide two electronic (jpg or tif and at least 300 DPI) photos for each nominee—one color and one black and white. The color image will be used on the website and the black and white image will be used in the ad. Photos should be head and shoulder shots of high quality resolution suitable for publication.
• For the top nominee only, please provide a statement of 200 words or less describing the engineer’s work on unique or high profile projects and/or engineering achievements during the last two to five years. Please avoid acronyms.
• For each additional nominee, please attach a statement of three to five sentences describing the candidate's work or engineering achievements.
• Provide a list of student chapters both in the U.S. and internationally to be used to begin dissemination of National Engineers Week programs.
• Engineering societies will provide recognition to their nominees in their publications and on their web site.

Please note: All questions concerning this program, including the nomination process and eligibility to nominate, should be directed to Kelly Cunningham at klcpr@bellatlantic.net or (703) 548-1291.

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C. Photograph Consent and Release
Provide the following information for each engineer nominee

I, the undersigned, grant my consent and permission to publish my photograph and use my name solely for purposes of advertising, publicizing, and promoting New Faces of Engineering, a recognition program of National Engineers Week.

I hereby release and agree to hold harmless National Engineers Week from any liability, and invasion of any right of privacy or publicity, arising out of the use of my name and photograph.

I acknowledge that I have read and understand this Consent and Release prior to signing it. I certify and warrant that I am of legal age and have the full power, right, and authority to enter into this consent and release.