EWeek 2007 ENews #16 – January 30, 2007
Engineers Week 2007 will be celebrated February 18 – 24, 2007.
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Contents:
1. Design Squad Events Resources Online NOW!
2. Taking One From The National Playbook.
3. It's Time To Dream Girls.
1. Design Squad Events Resources Online NOW!
Download these resources and add some splash to your DESIGN SQUAD event!
- Event signs for the Welcome Table, Challenge Stations, Video Stations, and Testing Zones
- Cast photos
- Certificate of appreciation for event volunteers
- DESIGN SQUAD t-shirt transfers: Use them to create t-shirts for your events and workshops
- Spanish versions of 5 activity sheets
It's all at
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/resources.html.
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2. Taking one from the National Playbook
The State University of New York's New Paltz School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department has taken one from the National Engineers Week Foundation playbook. It's the 5th Annual New Faces of Engineering Event for 1,200 Hudson Valley middle and high school students on February 21. (The National Engineers Week Foundation sponsors a national "New Faces" program. Watch for recognition in USA TODAY.) The goal is to spark an interest in the math and sciences and encourage students to explore the world of engineering. Read all about SUNY's event, see photographs, and view a short promotional video at www.falatech.com/newfaces. Contact is
pglass@us.ibm.com.
The Oregon Section of ASME will observe Engineers Week with Student-Meet-Industry Day on February 22. Working mechanical engineers and engineering students are invited to sign up for the day, including dinner. See
http://www.sections.asme.org/Oregon/Student_Meet_Industry_Day.html
As part of a GE transportation program, an engineer at Gannon University in Erie (PA) will speak with 100 high school students on the topic "Engineers Make a World of Difference." Contact is Karinna Vernaza at vernaza001@gannon.edu.
Let us know how you're making a difference. Take a minute to post your news in the local events forum at
http://www.eweek.org.
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3. It's Time to Dream Girls
For young women who dream about making the world a better place, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day is an opportunity to show them how to turn those dreams into reality. Here are a few examples of what's happening. Send us news of your events.
ExxonMobil will participate in this year's Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day by inviting more than 2,500 middle school girls at 15 company locations, including Puerto Rico and Nigeria, into facilities or by visiting in local schools. Contact crawford.b.bunkley@exxonmobil.com. As one example, in Torrance, California150 eighth-grade girls will tour the refinery and conduct experiments at four "experiment stations." Torrance contact is laura.paredes@exxonmobil.com.
Daughters of engineers currently working at the County of Orange (Santa Ana, CA) are invited to spend a day learning what civil engineers do for county residents. Contact is Sonia Nasser, PE, at
sonia.nasse@rdmd.ocgov.com.
A resident assistant at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff plans to place Girl Day information around her dormitory to encourage female residents to seek out information about becoming an engineer and look into our current engineering degree plans.
A faculty member at Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia– and member of the Society of Women Engineers will invite five invite five high school girls to campus. She will take them on a tour of the College of Engineering and arrange to have them sit in one or two engineering and/or math classes and to have lunch with some other female faculty of the College of Engineering and discuss their future goals and options. Contact is Bonita Anthony at banthony@odu.edu.
The University of Illinois at Chicago's Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)) mentors students from Young Women's Leadership Charter School (YWLCS) on a variety of careers. On February 22, UIC engineers will speak to 10th graders at YWLCS about the wide range of career possibilities in engineering. The "Ask an Engineer" DVD will be shown as a platform for discussions. Contact Sarah Shirk at sshirk1@uic.edu.
A mother and college professor will make a presentation at her daughter's Charleston, West VirginiaBrownie Troup meeting in February. She will also organize a service project for her students to visit a local elementary / middle school to do fun demonstrations in civil engineering.
The Girl Scouts of Freedom Valley are teaming up with Girl Scouts of Chesapeake Bay Council and DuPont Research Center in Wilmington, Delewareon February 24 to offer 150 girls "Engineering Your Tomorrow."
More than 60 DuPont women engineers and scientists host the girls, from introductions as to what engineering/science is all about, to chaperoning and chatting with them about science and engineering for the day, to engaging the girls in hands-on engineering and science activities they design. "It's a phenomenal day, lots of energy on everyone's part," says Nichi Bausser of Freedom Valley. Contact her at nichi.bausser@gsfvc.org.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Engineering Department will sponsor an all-day "Introduce A Girl To Engineering Day" event, which combines inspirational women engineers and architects as speakers with hands-on educational activities, lunch, a video, and contest giveaways. See http://www.panynj.gov/
An engineer with Chevron Pipeline in Bellaire, Texaswill speak to a group of junior high school students for career day to introduce engineering to the classes and address questions about women and the opportunities in engineering.
A high school math teacherin Cedar Grove, New Jersey will expose more students, especially girls, to various careers in engineering. The teacher hopes to celebrate Engineers Week by incorporating construction, design, and some physics into geometry lessons.
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Founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, Engineers Week (February 18-24, 2007) is celebrated annually by thousands of engineers, engineering students, teachers, and leaders in government and business. In 1988, the National Engineers Week consortium expanded its scope and now includes more than 100 engineering, scientific, and education societies and major corporations dedicated to enhancing the public understanding of the engineering profession and to promoting pre-college interest in math, science, and engineering as a career option.
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