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April 12, 2004 Students take center stage at engineering's E-WeekWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Celebrating students of Purdue's recently renamed College of Engineering is the focus of the first E-Week, a weeklong series of events sponsored by the college from April 12-16. The week, modeled after February's National Engineering Week, will feature activities that focus on both rewarding students for their performance during the year and acknowledging their importance to the college and the university as a whole. Unless otherwise noted, events are free and open to the public and include: • Engineering Blood Drive Challenge, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today (Monday, 4/12), Materials Science and Electrical Engineering Building Atrium. Students, faculty and staff from the College of Engineering are able to earn points for their school by donating blood. Each donor receives a hat, and the school with the most participants will win a pizza party. • Student E-Week carnival, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday (4/13), Engineering Mall. The carnival will feature games and competitions for engineering students, as well as lemonade, popcorn and cotton candy. • Leading Innovation in Engineering Education, 10:30-11:40 a.m. Wednesday (4/14), Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom. Richard Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University, will give a lecture about the future direction of engineering education. His talk is free and open to the public and will be followed by an invitation-only luncheon in the North Ballroom to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Purdue's freshman engineering program, the first such program in the country. Felder will speak about trends in engineering education and the need for changes in teaching the next generations of engineers, including suggestions on what an institution such as Purdue can do to make engineering appealing to younger students. He is one of the nation's foremost authorities on engineering education and has received numerous national teaching awards. Since joining the faculty at North Carolina State in 1969, Felder has written more than 200 papers on both chemical processes engineering and engineering education and presented hundreds of seminars, workshops and short courses in both categories to industrial and research institutions and universities throughout the United States and abroad. Felder has co-directed the National Effective Teaching Institute under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering Education since 1991. • Designing Space Suits for Mars, 2:30 p.m. Thursday (4/15), Fowler Hall in Stewart Center. Purdue alumna Amy Ross will talk about her work as an engineer designing space suits at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Ross, who's father, Jerry, has flown on seven space shuttle missions, also tests the suits in environments designed to reduce the effects of gravity or mimic the arid, sandy surface of Mars. Ross, who received both a bachelor's and master's degree in mechanical engineering in 1994 and 1996, respectively, will talk about her career at NASA and give students suggestions for establishing themselves in the engineering field. She began at NASA as a co-op student in 1990. • Distinguished Engineering Alumni program, 1:30 p.m. Friday (4/16), Fowler Hall. The College of Engineering will recognize 11 alumni from its different schools for achievement in engineering. Writer: Matt Holsapple, (765) 494-2073, mholsapple@purdue.edu Sources: Cindy Lawley, College of Engineering director of external relations, (765) 496-6929, lawley@purdue.edu Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu Related Web site:
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