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Office
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February 18, 2002 |
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The University of Texas at Tyler College of Engineering and Computer Science will host the Second Annual Scrap Pile Challenge for junior and senior high school students Wednesday, Feb. 20, in observance of National Engineers Week, Dr. Jeffrey Mountain, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, announced. "Without
Engineers the World Stops'' is the theme of National Engineers Week
2002, to be celebrated Feb. 17-23. The Scrap Pile
Challenge will begin at 8:45 a.m. at UT Tyler's Robert R. Muntz
Library, Room 401. "The purpose
of the Challenge is to raise awareness and stimulate interest in
engineering as a profession,'' Dr. Mountain said. "The high
school contestants were selected from those enrolled in advanced
math and science courses, making them potential engineering program
candidates.'' Teams of students
will be challenged to design and build a device to accomplish a
task using items from scrap piles provided by UT Tyler. The exact
nature of the device and task will not be announced until the teams
arrive for the competition. UT Tyler junior and senior engineering
students will assist the competitors. The teams will
test their devices in a contest to become Scrap Champions. Students from
All Saints Episcopal School, The Brook Hill School, Grace Community
High School and T.K. Gorman High School will participate. A group
of junior and senior home-school students also are expected to compete. In addition
to the student teams, UT Tyler faculty will join the high school
faculty sponsors to form a team. "Teaming
the high school students and their teachers with UT Tyler engineering
majors and faculty is a way to introduce the students to the creative
and fun side of engineering from a peer-mentor point of view,''
Dr. Mountain said. For information contact Dr. Mountain at (903) 565-5588.
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