ENGINEERING DAY

2008 Date: February 19, 2008 from 9am to 2pm.

The annual celebration of engineers and engineering achievement started in 1951. Engineering week is recognized worldwide as a way to introduce the role that engineering plays in all of our lives.

At SIUC, the student members of the Engineering Student Council (ESC) organize Engineering Week activities with assistance from each of our many engineering student chapters in order to achieve this goal.

Engineering Day is sponsored by the SIUC College of Engineering and its affiliated student professional chapters and organizations, the day features nine individual hands-on events and engineering demonstrations.  We will be highlighting several University student organizations including the formula racing, hovercraft and moon buggy teams.  Representatives from a number of area industries, along with college researchers, typically demonstrate the use of high-tech engineering in real-world applications.

Among the goals of Engineering Day is introducing students to basic engineering principles and how they apply to every day life.  With these "Mind Games", students are forced to think about how to design, how to build, how to make it work and how to make it function. That is exactly what engineers do.  There is a problem out there; they think of different types of solutions, then they decide on a certain solution and try to design a tool, device or system to solve that problem. And then they build and they test. That is exactly the process that students will have the opportunity  experience.

Through hands-on activities, engineering labs, and Mind Games students get the opportunity to learn and experience how engineers find solutions to today’s many challenges.

For more information about Engineering Day at SIUC or to register your school to participate in Engineering Day please contact the Julie Eisenhauer at (618) 453-7992 or eisenhauer@engr.siu.edu. Please specify your school name and # of attendees.