Great Valley to participate in National Engineers Week
January 30, 2006Penn State Great Valley will host a weeklong slate of activities from Feb. 20 to 23 to mark National Engineers Week. Penn State Great Valley is one of hundreds of engineering societies, government agencies, corporations, businesses, and universities hosting events during National Engineers Week, which was founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers. The campus will celebrate with the following activities:
— Monday, Feb. 20: 5 to 6 p.m., “Career Lessons Learned,” Joe Trench, executive vice president, Maritime Systems and Sensors, Locked Martin Corp.
— Tuesday, Feb. 21: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Engineering and Information Science Information Session for those who would like to learn more about engineering and information technology degree programs and certificates at Penn State Great Valley; 7 to 8:30 p.m., “Coming of Age in the ’60s,” an evening with award-winning poet Sonia Sanchez, brought to the public by the campus’ Diversity Action Council;
— Wednesday, Feb. 22: 2 to 3:15 p.m., “Health Systems Engineering,” Dave Cowan, executive-in-residence, Institute for Health Systems, School of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology; 5 to 6 p.m., meet the authors of “Antipatterns: Identification, Refactoring and Management,” Philip Laplante, associate professor, software engineering, Penn State Great Valley, and Colin Neill, associate professor, software engineering, Penn State Great Valley,
— Thursday, Feb. 23: 5 to 6 p.m., student and faculty mixer, during which participants can celebrate the conclusion of the week’s events in the main lobby with faculty members and students.
Ongoing activities include a poster session by faculty and engineering videos in the lobby of the Safeguard Scientifics Building.
All events are free to the public. For information, call (610) 725-5382.
