National Engineers Week is February 14-20, 2010 is a cooperative effort between professional engineering organizations. Events during the week promote the engineering disciplines to students, help expand public recognition of the engineering profession, and celebrate engineering accomplishments. A number of COE alumni are being honored by the Georgia Engineering Alliance during the week including: Lifetime Achievement in Engineering, Edward Davidson, MS’00 in Nuclear and Radiological Engineering; Georgia Engineer of the Year, Francis Fiegle, BS’73 in Civil Engineering; and Young Engineer of the Year, Christopher Brazell, BS’2001, MS’04 in Civil Engineering.
Introduce a Girl to Engineering
Georgia Tech and the College of Engineering will also host “Introduce a Girl to Engineering (IAG)” during the week. IAG is a program that introduces young girls in middle school with a strong interest in math and science to the various fields of engineering. This special event brings together middle school students from around the State of Georgia to interact and learn from established women in the fields of engineering and technology. While on the GT campus, the women engineers encourage and motivate the students to continue to strive for excellence in academics and to learn more about the broad scope of engineering. This includes a focus on humanitarian and social awareness engineering.
Fun Events at Tech
Tau Beta Pi, the Tech Engineering fraternity, is sponsoring a number of events to celebrate the week. They include: an Engineering Photo Scavenger Hunt in which teams will travel around Tech to find exciting and widely unknown engineering sites, objects, and locations and an Engineering Society Build-a-thon where teams will construct from cans a representation of their engineering discipline. Constructions will be judged by GT faculty and industry guest judges based on criteria of creativeness, ingenuity, engineering difficulty, and adherence to the theme. All canned goods will be donated to the Atlanta Food Bank after competition.
Young Engineers Day
On Thursday February 18th, approximately 150 Atlanta area high school students will be on the Tech campus touring research labs. The tour will culminate in an event called the Mini Challenge. Sponsored by the College of Engineering Education Outreach Office, teams of students will be asked to create a design based on information presented to them during their tours. The competitions will be judged by Tech undergraduate and graduate students and prizes will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners.
