UCI to Celebrate National Engineers Week
Weeklong activities begin Feb. 20, 2007
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the
The weeklong event provides an avenue for students to demonstrate inventiveness and imagination through a variety of events. Highlighting the festivities is a series of competitions allowing students to demonstrate innovation and creativity. Examples of contests include:
- Paper Airplane Competition: (Feb. 22, 11 a.m., location: CalIT2 plaza) students design and build a paper airplane that will travel the farthest possible distance.
- RC Car
Battle : (Feb. 22, noon – 1 p.m., location:Engineering Plaza - Rube Goldberg Competition: (Feb. 22, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m., location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium) students create a complex contraption to perform a simple task.
- Catapult Competition: (Feb. 22, 2 p.m., location:
Engineering Plaza - The Great Race Competition: (Feb. 22, 3 p.m., location: McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium) students will test their academic “smarts” in school subjects ranging from mathematics and science, to common knowledge, during a four-stop race.
Additional E-Week activities include the EngiTECH Technical Career Fair held on Feb. 21, sponsored by more than 50 local companies; a high school shadow day; a faculty and student barbecue; and an awards banquet. Additional information about E-week can be found at: http://esc.eng.uci.edu/eweek.
There will also be guided tours available Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. - noon, highlighting some of the School’s laboratories and facilities including the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, the National Fuel Cell Research Center, and the Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall, or HIPerWall, at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. If you are interested in partcipating in the tours, please contact Goran Matijasevic at goran@uci.edu.
All events will be held at The Henry Samueli School of Engineering on the UC Irvine campus. For directions, please visit http://www.uci.edu/campusmaps.php
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UC Irvine is one of the nation's fastest growing engineering schools, attracting talented engineering faculty and students from across the nation and abroad. The School consists of five departments: biomedical engineering, chemical engineering and materials science, civil and environmental engineering, electrical engineering and computer science, and mechanical and aerospace engineering; and is home to and affiliated with numerous research centers, including the Integrated Nanosystems Research Facility, the National Fuel Cell Research Center, and the Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing. Additionally, it is a major participant in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. Further, more than a third of the School’s faculty members are fellows in professional societies. For more information, please visit www.eng.uci.edu.
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