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Engineers Week Banquet to be Held Feb. 21 in Kilgore The Annual National Engineers Week (East Texas) Banquet is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, in the Student Center Ballroom at Kilgore College. Reservation cards are available in the College of Engineering and Computer Science dean's office (ENG 101) until Feb. 14. Contact Sherry Rhodes at Ext. 7040. The banquet speaker will be Doug Ashcraft, PE, SE, a principal and stockholder with Walter P. Moore and Associates in Houston. Ashcraft will speak on the design and construction of Enron Field, the new home of the Astros. UT Tyler will have a table/exhibit with information available on the university's engineering and computer science programs for prospective students and their families, teachers and counselors. More than 100 high school students, teachers and counselors attend the banquet free, as guests of businesses and technical societies in East Texas. National Engineers Week (www.eweek.org), which will be observed Feb. 17-23, is an annual celebration focusing on sharing the importance of engineering with young people. The National Society of Professional Engineers founded the program in 1951.
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