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EWeek ENews # 4 - January 21, 2004

National Engineers Week 2004 will be celebrated February 22-28. The 2004 program is chaired by IEEE/IEEE-USA and Fluor Corporation. This is the fourth in a series of e-newsletters that will inform you of products and programs. But, the best way to keep current is to periodically visit http://www.eweek.org.

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Contents: 1. Cleveland Engineers in Training for Engineers Week 2. UCTV Celebrates Engineers Week 3. Five down, 28 to go in Future City Competition 4. Girl Day Pledges

1. Cleveland Engineers in Training for Engineers Week. NASA's Glenn Research Center's yearly Speaker Workshop will assist Cleveland, Ohio, area National Engineers Week speakers when they visit K-12 schools to talk about careers in engineering and provide various hands-on activities and displays/demonstrations relating to their profession. The NASA Glenn Educational Programs Office collaborates with the Cleveland Area EWeek Committee. The workshop features breakout sessions with grade appropriate hands-on activities that demonstrate new and exciting techniques speakers can use to enhance their school presentations. Veteran EWeek speakers will share their experiences in the classroom as well as show some demonstrations and activities that work well with classroom presentations. A session on classroom management will also be presented. Detailed information of school assignment(s), speaker packets, EWeek packets, and teacher educational resource packets will be distributed at the workshop. NASA sends its own and other Cleveland-area engineers to visit classrooms within a 50-mile radius of the city. Last year speakers presented to more than 9,500 students. Contact: Linda Little, EWeek Program Manager at Linda.S.Little@grc.nasa.gov.

2. UCTV Celebrates Engineers Week. University of California Television will sponsor a special slate of programming during Engineers Week. A conversation with Michael Dell and a lecture by Dr. Elga Wasstermen, "The Unfinished Agenda - Women in Science and Engineering," are just two programs in the lineup. For more information, contact Alison Gang at agang@ucsd.edu. A live webcast is available at www.uctv.tv/cable. UCTVB is a 24-hour satellite channel broadcasting educational enrichment programming from all UC campuses and national labs.

3. Five down, 28 to go in Future City Competition. To date, five teams have been announced as regional winners of the National Engineers Week Future City Competition and will travel with the other regional winners to Washington, D.C., for the competition's national finals, February 23-25. Other competitions are still taking place around the country.

The winning teams so far are: Albany, New York, Region: Maple Hill Middle School (Castleton-on-Hudson, NY); Florida Region: Westminster Academy (Fort Lauderdale, FL); Kentucky Region: Pineville Middle School (Pineville, KY); Oklahoma Region: St. Philip Neri School (Midwest City, OK); South Carolina Region: Queen of Angels Catholic School (Roswell, GA).

4. Girl Day Pledges. Participants in Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2004 are signing on to the National Pledge Roster (see http://www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/2004_nationalpledgeroster.shtml). Here are a few examples.

PBS&J in Tampa, Florida, is planning an on-site luncheon for both high school and college students, with a goal of reaching at least 12 young women. PBS&J women engineers will share their passion for engineering and introduce the students to the company. They will invite students from the local high schools and from USF. Jeannette Twachtmann, jmtwachtmann@pbsj.com.

In St. Louis, Missouri, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will mobilize 60 engineers (30 women engineers) for a Mentor Day with teenage girls to tour the facilities and learn about engineering at the Corps, speak to local school groups and host an engineering exhibit at a local science center. See www.mvs.usace.army.mil. Contact Lattissua.D.Tyler@mvs02.usace.army.mil

In Galveston, Texas, the Corps will host an "Introduce a Girl to Engineers Week" at a local middle and high school. Contact Demetrice Jones, Demetrice.l.jones@usace.army.mil

The Westinghouse Savannah River Company in Aiken, South Carolina, will contact all local middle schools to recruit 60 girls for an on-site visit, to interact with 30 engineers, including 25 women. Contact is bonnie.toole@srs.gov

In Illinois, the College of DuPage's Gender Equity Program along with Molex and the DuPage County Girl Scouts are hosting 50 high school females to participate in "Introduce a Girl to Engineering" at Molex's headquarters in Lisle, Illinois. The half day will include a brief introduction, engineering activities with female engineers, a facility tour, and lunch. For more info, see www.cod.edu. Contact Heather Winter Sobecki, sobecki@cdnet.cod.edu.

The Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, invites girls in grades 6-12 to their 33rd annual Career Day for Girls on Saturday, February 21, 2004, from 8:30 am-3:30 pm. This year's theme is "Engineering: Expanding your Horizons." The day will consist of a keynote speaker, a mini-design competition, alumnae engineering panels, and lab tours. 200 attendees will interact with 25 women engineers. Due to limited space all participants must pre-register for the event. The registration deadline is Friday, February 13, 2004. Contact Ellen Worsdall, Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Engineering, e-worsdall@northwestern.edu or see http://msgroups.tech.northwestern.edu/swe/.

In New York City, a team is developing a proposal for a pre-engineering high school, to open in 2004, concentrating efforts on recruiting mostly females. Although no specific Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day activities are planned, the contact is looking for resources and input that would motivate more females to enter the field of engineering. If funded for 2004, the school will open with a maximum of 100 9th graders. Contact Migdalia Carrillo, mcarril@nycboe.net.

An engineer from the Boston section of the American Society of Civil Engineers will go into the K-8 schools and do several short hands-on engineering programs, including ZOOM Into Engineering and Building Big activities. For more info see links on www.engineers.org/outreach.html or contact outreach@engineers.org.

The Student Engineers' Council at Virginia Tech is planning an evening of fun and hands-on activities geared toward girls and young women students of all ages and backgrounds. This will include tours of facilities and discussion with professors and students, as well as many activities to get geared up for engineering. The event is co-sponsored by the Virginia Tech Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. Jenny Totten, jtotten@vt.edu , www.sec.vt.edu

On Saturday, February 28, 2004, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., the Women in Engineering Program at the University of Texas - Austin will host an afternoon of ZOOM Into Engineering hands-on activities for girls in 1st through 12th grades. The event is designed to excite girls' interest in the field of engineering. Women from the UT engineering community, including faculty, students, staff, and alumni, will be available to talk to the girls about all aspects of engineering. Space is limited and registration is required. For more information and to register, please visit: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/wep/Precollege/Programs/girl_day Questions? Contact Danielle Seabold at dseabold@mail.utexas.edu or 512-471-5650.

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Founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers, National Engineers Week (February 22-28, 2004) 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.