EWeek 2007 ENews #2 – June 5, 2006
Engineers Week 2007 will be celebrated February 18 – 24, 2007. Feel free to forward this letter or contents to other interested parties.
Contents:
1. From Virtual to Real World: Winners Visit Symantec
2. Download Now, Play Later
3. Travel to engineeringsights.org
4. Help Others See the USA the Engineering Way
1. From Virtual to Real World: Winners visit Symantec
Symantec Corporation hosted the winners of its first University Programming Competition at Symantec's Mountain View, California, campus. The contest challenged entrants to build and grow efficient, robust virtual organisms.
Pictured left to right: Symantec's Dr. Linda McCarthy, Symantec Fellow and VP Carey Nachenberg, third place winner Louis Kruger of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, first place winner Matthew Menke of M.I.T., Symantec's Dr. Mark Bregman, and Darren Shou. Second place winner Bryant Brownell of Oregon State University was unable to attend.
2. Download Now, Play Later
If you missed participating in live sessions during the 24-hour Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering, you can catch some of the presentations at eweek.org. You can save audio recordings to your computer or transfer them to your MP3 player. Presentations include:
"Teaching and learning by thinking out of the box" and "Graduate School?" moderated by Rice University (24MB MP3);
"Building skills in spatial-visualization and other areas for success in engineering" and "Girls and math: What are the strategies for success in college math?" presented by JETS (57MB MP3);
"Extraordinary Women Engineers Project: Changing our World: True Stories of Women Engineers." Book Discussion and online party moderated by author Sybil Hatch (24MB MP3);
"What middle school girls think of engineering" with insights from the Louisiana regional National Engineers Week Future City Competition team (27MB MP3); and
"Mentoring gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered science and technology students: Bridging the academic-corporate gap
3. Travel to engineeringsights.org
Summer vacations will be educational and memorable this year by visiting one of the hundreds of engineering marvels featured at . Take for instance the Fontana Dam in Robbinsville, North Carolina, one of the newest additions to the site. At the height of World War II, the U.S. was in desperate need for metal to build aircraft. An aluminum plant in Tennessee was ready to produce, but it lacked the massive amounts of energy necessary to power the operation. The solution? An intense three-year marathon to construct the tallest concrete dam east of the Rockies. The area was so remote that the government even built a town for the 5000 workers who labored in three shifts, 24 hours a day, to complete the project in record time.
Nearly 300 attractions across the country are listed on the site, which tells the story of American engineering ingenuity through intriguing and often offbeat tourist sights.
4. Help Others See the USA the Engineering Way
Consider a letter to the editor on behalf of your engineering school or volunteer organization to promote summer travel that features engineering achievements large and small. Click here to find a draft letter that you can adapt. Include any engineering sights of note in your community. This is a great way to generate positive publicity for engineering and your organization.
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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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