September 2005, Issue #41 Letter from JETS
It's the beginning of the school year. JETS is excited to announce the return of its National Engineering Design Challenge. JETS has revamped the design competition, in partnership with NISH, to challenge students to design and build technological solutions that empower people with disabilities to enter or advance in the workplace. NISH is a national nonprofit agency whose mission is to create employment opportunities for people with severe disabilities by securing Federal contracts through the Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD) Program. Click here to read more about the new JWOD/JETS National Engineering Design Challenge.
In honor of the new program, and to help those interested get a head start on learning about rehabilitation engineering, we've dedicated this issue of the PE-Times to this exciting and very rewarding field.
Both the feature of the month and the extreme engineer explore rehabilitation engineering, which is a sub-specialty of biomedical engineering.
Our current event is dedicated to Hurricane Katrina and how engineers will be major players in helping the area rebuild after the devastation.
Hands On Activities
JETS is also providing hands on activities and resources for the classroom. Two for this month are:
Also, it's time to begin planning to participate in the 2005-06 TEAMS competition. The JETS Update fills you in on this year's competition!
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.
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