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February 2005, Issue #37
Letter from the Editor
Happy Eweek! In case you aren't aware, it used to be called National Engineers Week but this year, the eweek committee dropped National from the title to recognize the increasingly international role of engineering work. Eweek is a week-long celebration of engineering that takes place in February. The 2005 festivities will be held Feb 20-26. One of the benefits of eweek is that you can usually talk an engineer into coming to your classroom to talk about engineering. Eweek said that last year, 40,000 volunteer engineers visited schools to help promote the profession. If you are a student, let your teacher know about this opportunity. If you are a teacher, call a local engineering firm and ask for their assistance. For more information about how to get involved and what other people are doing for eweek, visit their site http://www.eweek.org.
This month our focus is about becoming an engineer, getting licensed and celebrating the achievements of engineers everywhere. We hope to share the benefits of licensure, give you a glimpse of the road ahead and help you find ways to celebrate eweek.
If you know of students, educators or engineers that would be interested in this kind of information please forward this newsletter and encourage them to subscribe.
Happy New Year, Happy Ground Hog Day, Happy Mardi Gras, Happy Chinese New Year, Happy Valentines Day, Happy President's Day and most of all, Happy Engineers Week!
Celeste Baine
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