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EWeek 2008 ENews #17 – February 22, 2008
Engineers Week 2008 will be celebrated February 17 – 23, and is co-chaired by the Chinese Institute of Engineers (CIE)–USA and IBM Corporation. Feel free to forward this letter or contents to other interested parties.
Contents:
1. Grand Challenges
2. Grand Challenge of a Different Sort
3. Federal Engineer of the Year
4. Kids Discover Engineering Online
5. In Local News
1. Grand Challenges
A Blue Ribbon Panel, organized by the National Academy of Engineering, has announced the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century. Challenges cited range from energy to medicine to a secure cyberspace and more. You can voice your opinion. Go to http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/
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2. Grand Challenge of a Different Sort
Kids ages 5-19 can enter the "Trash to Treasure" contest. The objective is to recycle, reuse and re-engineer everyday materials into an out-of-the-box invention. Inventions should move things or people; protect the environment or be used for play indoors or out. The Grand Prize is $10,000, a Dell laptop powered by Intel and a trip to Boston to see the design built. See more at http://pbskids.org/designsquad/contest/index.html.
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3. Federal Engineer of the Year
The National Society of Professional Engineers named Capt. Anthony Todd Zimmer, Ph.D., P.E., C.I.H, Federal Engineer of the Year in a luncheon ceremony yesterday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Zimmer, a senior engineer with the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response, has protected public health and the environment through emergency response during his more than 20 year career and is also well-known for his research, including a groundbreaking look into airborne nano-particles.
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4. Kids Discover Engineering Online
You have two great new resources to introduce middle school and high school students to engineering. PowerUp the game was developed and launched by IBM for Engineers Week 2008 and is getting rave reviews. So is www.discoverengineering.org. PowerUp draws kids into a virtual world to engineer energy solutions and at Discover Engineering students see real engineers and engineering making a positive difference
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5. In Local News
The San Diego, California, section of ASCE Younger Member Forum is hosting the annual Engineering Day at the Mall on Saturday, February 23rd from 10 am – 3 pm at Grossmont Center in La Mesa. Volunteers from YMF and engineering students from San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego will be helping with fun and free activities to engage children and their parents; including making flashlights, marshmallow towers, and aluminum foil boats. Contact is jennifer.barrett@ch2m.com
During EWEEK 2008 in Mississippi, engineers with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi State University, and Jackson State University will speak at high schools in Vicksburg and Jackson. Sponsoring Societies are ASCE, SAME, ANS, SWE, MES, ASME, and IEEE.
The Girls Scouts of Southeastern Pennsylvania held a robotics workshop for approximately 50 girls, and their parents. Ten IBM volunteers led the workshops in designing, programming and testing the Lego Robotics on February 16. jervay@us.ibm.com
This week the Student Engineers' Council at Virginia Tech is holding their annual E-Week to coincide with national Engineers Week. Many events are planned for this week. They also design and sell t-shirts all week long! Information is available at http://www.sec.vt.edu. Click Events -> E-Week. Contact secim@vt.edu
For the second year, engineers from Canam Steel Corporation U.S. and their teams, in seven U.S. plants, will compete in a K'nex Connecting Engineers Challenge. They will put their skills to the test to see which team can build a span that will carry the heaviest load. Mary.Levesque@Canam.ws
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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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