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EWeek 2005 ENews #14– February 7, 2005
National Engineers Week 2005 will be celebrated February 20-26. Feel free to forward this letter or contents to other interested parties. Contents: 1. Engineers Week Is for Clients, Too 2. Introduce a Girl to Engineering This type of luncheon is relatively easy to organize and has an effective pay-off. The idea is to invite middle school or high school girls to your facility for a simple luncheon. Women engineers host the girls and there is a featured speaker or short panel discussion with time for Q&A. Parents can also be invited. There’s an Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day kit to help with your planning and presentations. It’s free! Visit www.eweek.org to order today. Here are examples of what some others are doing. Eighty engineers from DuPont and the Society of Women Engineers DelMar Peninsula Section will present “Engineering Your Tomorrow” on February 26 at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware. The event allows 200 sixth to eighth grade Girl Scouts to do hands-on experiments and encourages their interest in science, math, engineering and technology. Learn more. http://www.cbgsc.org/Resources/GSCB%20Jan%20-%20Jul%202005%20Program%20Calendar%20Teen.pdf . The women engineers at Judith Nitsch Engineering www.jnei.com and the Department of Capital Asset Management, both in Boston, Massachusetts, will present a program for 40 6th - 12th grade girls plus their parents, in the top floor offices of a Boston skyscraper. The program will include a panel of women engineers and a “sidebar” conversation/panel with the parents, hands-on activities for the girls, breakfast tours, and possibly a “visual” engineering scavenger hunt. Contact Judith Nitsch, PE, at jnitsch@jnei.com. An encouraging note: a participant from a previous year’s event is now applying to college biomedical engineering programs, and mentioned the event in her applications! At five sites in the Houston, Texas, area, ExxonMobil invites 5th, 6th, and 7th grade girls to their facilities to meet with panels of women engineers who talk about engineering school, jobs, etc., followed by a site tour and hands-on experiments. Everyone gets together for lunch with women engineers before returning to their schools. ExxonMobil is expanding the program to other sites around the U.S. Email mary.h.studlick@exxonmobil.com. Two U. S. Army Corps of Engineers women engineers from the Corps’ Chicago District plan to visit two partner elementary schools. The engineers will speak with 7th and 8th graders about the importance of engineering and highlight engineering accomplishments of the Corps. Contact is Vanessa.Villarreal@usace.army.mil See also www.lrc.usace.army.mil Eight women engineers from Los Alamos (New Mexico) National Laboratory will work with 80 girls, first doing Engineers Week hands-on demos on February 24 and then doing separate events with Junior Girls Scouts in March and April. Contact is: konecni@lanl.gov and see http://sections.asme.org/nnmss/ The Society of Women Engineers at the Illinois Institute of Technology is having a “Girls in Engineering Day” on Saturday, March 5, at the main campus in Chicago. The program is geared towards 10th - 12th grade students. Contact Undergraduate Admissions at 312-567-3025. IIT also hosts a Women In Science and Engineering Summer Program for four weeks in July. Contact if Lisa Montgomery at lisa.montgomery@iit.edu. Applications are available beginning this February. The Women in Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin will host Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on February 26. Five hundred pre-college students and their parents, teachers, Girl Scout leaders and siblings will explore hands-on activities and educational booths on the UT campus. Women from the UT engineering community, including faculty, students, staff, industry partners and alumni, will facilitate hands-on activities and talk to the girls about all aspects of engineering during this half day event. Go to www.engr.utexas.edu/wep/precollege/programs/girl_day or contact ktk@mail.utexas.edu. A 7th - 11th grade school in Quebec (Canada) is following Girl Day activities on the pledge roster (eweek.or) and is interested in participating. If anyone is in this area and would like to help, please contact Meera Trivedi, 450-468-7539, or mtrivedi@sympatico.ca,. The Bronx, New York, Aerospace Academy High School’s Engineering Science Club/Blue Falcons Robotics Team is sponsoring a local speaker from the Society of Women Engineers NewYork section to speak to its aspiring female science and technology majors about careers in engineering and/or an open technical topic in mechanical engineering on March 1. The school would like to have a few students shadow an engineer on her job. If you can help, contact sweaver252005@yahoo.com 3. News You Can Use: Local Events The Virginia Department of Education is sponsoring the Children's Engineering Convention in Richmond February 24-26. This convention provides guidance on the teaching of engineering and science related topics for teachers of kindergarten through fifth grade. Workshop highlights will focus on experiences that enable children to explore how people create, use, and control technology; apply knowledge in mathematics, science, English, and History and Social Studies in solving problems associated with technology; use tools and materials to explore personal interest with technology; and, exhibit self-confidence through the use of technology. Participants may receive fifteen (15) re-certification points for full participation in the convention, when the participants have prior approval from their school administration. For information, visit http://www.vtea.org/ESTE/convention/. In Houston, Texas, The Children’s Museum of Houston, local PBS Affiliate KUHT and American Society of Mechanical Engineers will host “ZOOM Into Engineering Days” February 19 and 20. The museum has an active ZOOMZone. Contact is Connie Hill at chill@houstonpbs.or. To submit content or comments, or to be added to our email distribution list, please e-mail eweek@nspe.org. All suggestions will be considered. Founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, Engineers Week (February 20-26, 2005) 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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