Letter from JETS

What an exciting time for JETS!

We have just launched the new NEDC—National Engineering Design Challenge with NISH—to interest a broad range of students to engineering and technology careers, while showing them a very compelling side of engineering—helping someone with a disability through their own design efforts.

Registration is open for our 2005-2006 TEAMS competition. We're excited to announce that five new universities have signed up to host TEAMS this year—adding new competition sites to the more than 100 sites returning from last year. Now is a great time to register your teams and begin preparing for this fun and stimulating competition.

In addition JETS was notified this month that it has won a $55,000 grant from the United Engineering Foundation to fund the fifth revision of its NEAS+, National Engineering Aptitude Search. This self assessment tool helps high school student determine their strengths and weaknesses in subject areas that are critical to pursuing an engineering or a technology-related degree at a college or university—showing them where to focus their efforts to prepare for college.

This issue of the PE-Times is dedicated to the very exciting field of telecommunications engineering. Both the feature of the month and the extreme engineer explore telecommunications engineering, which is a sub-specialty of electrical and computer engineering. We'd like to thank the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers for their sponsorship of the newsletter this month.

Our current event focuses on pre-engineering education and ways teachers can help interest students in engineering.

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.