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EWeek 2006 ENews #22 – February 23, 2006

National Engineers Week 2005 will be celebrated February 20-26. Feel free to forward this letter or contents to other interested parties.

2. Girl Day Leads to the Second Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering
Given the popularity of the Girl Day program, we will hold the second "Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering" beginning March 23, 2006, at noon EST. The event coincides with Women's History Month.

The marathon runs a full 24 hours with presentations originating from points around the globe. College students can learn about working in the real world – including work inside and outside the U.S. - from professionals. Among dozens of topics the marathon will help address that familiar complaint of middle and high school students, "I'll never use math or science!" Educators, counselors, students and parents can talk in real time via phone and Internet with engineers and leaders - like the first U.S. woman astronaut Sally Ride - about engineering. There will be tips on how to motivate girls in STEM, how to select women-friendly engineering colleges, and what it's like to be an engineer or engineering student. Volunteers who work with young women can learn about key messages and resources. Click here for more information. You can also suggest topics or request to participate as a speaker.

3. Future City Winner
Congratulations to theteam from Chippewa Middle School, St. Paul, Minnesota, the 2006 National Engineers Week Future City Competition Grand Champions!

4.Asian American Engineers to be Recognized
The Chinese Institute of Engineers – USA hosts its annual Asian American Engineer of the Year Awards on February 25. Among the recipients are Dr. Yuan Tseh Lee and Albert Yu. Dr. Lee will receive the Distinguished Science and Technology Award. He is a 1986 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and currently president of Academia Sinica. Yu is a retired senior vice president with Intel. Under his leadership, Intel's microprocessors became the highest volume microchips to power computers and the Internet.

5. Engineers for a Sustainable World Launches SUSTAIN!
Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) celebrates National Engineers Week by launching the SUSTAIN! Campaign: Supporting Urban Sustainability Through Action and Information Now!

Supporting the 2006 Eweek theme, Engineers Make a World of Difference, ESW is mobilizing its members and chapters across the country to increase awareness of global sustainability issues and the role of engineering in building a better world. During the Eweek kickoff, ESW chapters will hold screenings of the eye-opening film, "The End of Suburbia," which examines the current American way of life and how it affects the earth's future. Through panel discussions and campus energy-reducing initiatives, students across the country will address resource consumption issues and other critical global challenges.

Established in 2002, ESW engages engineers in addressing some of the world's most critical challenges. In the past three years, the nonprofit organization has mobilized a network of over three thousand students and professionals who are working to increase access to clean water, energy, sanitation, and food security around the world. Click here for more information.

6. In Local News
February 23, 2006, is Shadow Day on the campus of Kansas State University. Girls in grades 9 - 11 are invited to attend this one day event to discover life as a female college student in science or engineering. High School girls will be paired upto shadow a K-State female science or engineering student for the day. They will attend class, explore campus and attend a luncheon together. Contact suarnold@ksu.edu

Friday, February 24, at 6 pm, is the start of the B.Y.O.B. Discussion Series. B.Y.O.B. -- Bring Your Own Brain -- is a weekly opportunity for the public to discuss and solve real world engineering problems. Everyone is invited to 136 Broadway in downtown Schenectady, New York, for some stimulating discussion. This event is sponsored by the Edison Exploratorium, a not for profit organization dedicated to encouraging and promoting engineering, particularly in Schenectady, "America's original Tech Valley." Contact explorator@earthlink.net

The Tampa Bay (Florida) Engineering Alliance successfully completed its "Celebrate Engineering 2006" Banquet on Friday Febuary 17, 2006 with 234 paid attendees (plus a few guests.). The main speaker was Mr. Roy Truman from Odyssey Marine Explorations enlightening attendees with fantastic underwater photographs of the recovery of treasure and artifacts from the S.S. Republic at 1700 feet below the surface of the sea.

On Saturday, February 25, the Austin Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers sponsors Engineers Day at the Children's Museum in Austin, Texas. For the past five years, as part of Engineers Week, the Austin Branch has sponsored an interactive event at the Austin Children's Museum. Volunteers are on hand to assist children in building bridges and towers, making a hovercraft, and creating flying hoop gliders and whirly-birds. Thanks to generous sponsorships from local engineering firms, for the last two years the admission fees have been waived for the first 200 children to attend the event. Additionally, this year the branch has received a State Public Affairs Grant (SPAG) from National ASCE to assist in funding the event. Upon completion of the engineering activities children are given goody bags (including t-shirt, pencil, stickers, tattoos, etc.). Contact Linda Barlow, P.E., lbarlow@hvj.com

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