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EWeek 2006 ENews #20 – February 20, 2006 National Engineers Week 2005 will be celebrated February 20-26. Feel free to forward this letter or contents to other interested parties. Contents:1. Grants Are Available for Your Schools 1. Grants Are Available for Your Schools! 2. See the USA the Engineering Way In Delaware, tour the "Lightship Overfalls," the last of the floating lighthouses. The ship's horn could be heard for 5 miles, and her flashing light was visible on clear nights for 12 miles. Find out more than you thought you'd ever want to know about barbed wire at the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, including 2,100 samples of different wire. At the Museum of Aviation in Georgia, try on the gloves worn by U-2 spy plane pilots, and see the actual planes used in bombing runs, anti-sub patrols, and more. Ride the Sandia Peak Tramway in New Mexico, zipping 4,000 feet up the mountain face in just 15 minutes, or go to Colorado for another cog railway ride, the world's highest, up 14,110 feet to the summit of Pike's Peak in the Rockies. In Wisconsin, visit the House on the Rock and take a ride on the world's largest carousel, which boasts 269 handcrafted animals--not one of which is a horse. In Wallace, Idaho, at the Sierra Silver Mine, ride a vintage trolley to the silver mine, then put on a hard hat and tour the mine's main drift. During the summer of 1996, Wallace was the location of the spectacular volcano disaster movie, Dante's Peak, starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton In Washington, D.C., visit the International Spy Museum and see the creative engineering designs involved in espionage including a solar-powered listening device created by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency in the 1970s that looks like a tree stump. It was placed in woods near a Soviet military base to relay secret military radio transmissions to an orbiting satellite. 3. College Students Can Win $10,000 For information, eligibility requirements, and the official rules regarding Symantec's Programming Competition, click here. Applicants must submit their entry via email; competition materials, judging criteria, and complete submission instructions will be available beginning on Feb. 22, 2006, at noon Pacific Standard Time. All entries must be received by noon Pacific Standard Time on March 1, 2006. Only one submission per individual entrant is permitted and team entries will not be accepted. 4. In Local News The National Engineers Week Challenge takes place February 20 at the Science Discovery Museum in Acton, Masachusetts. Build a dome and discover the excitement of engineering. Try challenges and create and test your own designs. Take home ideas for additional engineering activities that you can do with simple materials. In Vicksburg, Mississippi, Engineers Week is a group affair. Activities include interactive presentations by engineers at all the local junior and senior high schools, statewide video teleconferences via the Mississippi Public Broadcasting Star Schools Network, and of, course, a banquet. All activities are supported by IEEE, ASCE, ASME, SAME, SWE, MES and ANS. Eleven companies have joined together with the societies to support the activities in Vicksburg and central Mississippi. They are Raytheon, Applied Research Associates, Inc.; ABMB Engineers, Inc.; Optimal Geomatics, Inc.; Burns Cooley Dennis, Inc.; Ergon; Thompson Engineering, Inc.; Holifield Engineering; Michael Baker Jr., Inc.; Pyburn & Odom, Inc.; and Allen & Hoshall. Contact is joe.savage@ieee.org. Employees of HDR's Las Vegas office eagerly volunteered to participate in the Engineering Presentations program there from January to mid-February. Ten teams of two engineers each will give 12 presentations along with HDR goodies to approximately 300 students ranging from grades 3 to 5. Contact manas.asthana@hdrinc.com. The Los Alamos and Northern New Mexico chapter of the IEEE Computer Society is pleased to announce a National Engineers Week series of three presentations by Robert Gezelter, CDP, February 21-23. These public presentations are: The Internet and the Family: A Chat with Computer Security Handbook Contributing Editor Robert Gezelter; Safe Computing in the Age of Ubiquitous Connectivity; Time as a Microcosm: Was the Year 2000 Crisis Inevitable?. Check the link for details about each event. The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, chapter of SWE, together with other engineering organizations at Tulsa University, has come up with a full docket of activities including a Mr/Ms Engineer contest, game nights, and 'Who Wants to be an Engineer,' a Jeopardy-style trivia game. To find out more, click here. On February 23, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems in Mountain View, California, will host students from Santa Clara County for discussions and demos. That same day, GD-AIS in Florham Park, New Jersey, will award scholarships to high school seniors and in Annapolis students from central Maryland will learn about careers for women. On February 24 GD-AIS in Kauai, Hawaii, will host students for cell phone workshops and in the San Antonio, Texas area 200 high school ROTC students are teaming with GD-AIS engineers to create a weather station. For information on any GD-AIS program, contact jessica.pantages@gd-ais.com ----------------------------------------- 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 19-25, 2006) 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. Previous issues of the EWEEK ENEWS available here. |
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