February 24, 2005 — It was National Engineers Week at USC...and at other campuses across the nation. But
the USC Viterbi School of Engineering pulled out all of the stops. For students, it was a
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The 'Professor Pie-Throw' contest banner. |
week
chocked full of fun activities, including a barbecue cookout and
dessert competition, career day, and a formal Friday night ball in
downtown L.A. For professors, however, serving as targets in a pie
toss competition was perhaps not the highlight of their careers.
The weeklong event was sponsored by many Viterbi School student organizations
and featured the following agenda:
All Week Long: E-Week Banner Competition
Feb. 22: Professor Pie Toss Competition
Photo Scavenger Hunt
Academic Tech Bowl
Feb. 23: Kids Day
Barbecue Cookout
Dessert Competition
Feb. 24: Career Fair
Engineering Date Auction
Feb. 25: Corporate Luncheon
Future Technologies Guest Speaker
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Creamed! Adam Johnson fires off a pie, hitting Professor Tom Katsouleas squarely
in the face. |
Viterbi Ball at The Proud Bird Restaurant
National Engineers Week is celebrated every year during the week of
George Washington’s birthday to increase public awareness and
appreciation of the engineering profession. Each year, the event,
founded in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers
(NSPE), reaches thousands of schools, businesses and community groups
across the United States.
The week of George Washington's birthday was selected because Washington, the
first president, had the background of an engineer and land surveyor. He was the
first to call for an engineering school, which led to the founding of the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point.
Just in case students couldn't find a good reason to join in Engineers
Week activities, the NSPE issued its own ”top ten”
list of
really good reasons to celebrate engineering:
10) Because if we don't, those darn scientists will take credit for all of our
efforts.
9) To remind those jerks in school just who's having fun now.
8) Even garbage collectors want to be called engineers.
7) To stop people from snickering when we discuss “flocculating” devices.
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L-R: Regidia Mayrena, Stephanie Hunt, Elizabeth So and Anna Liberovsky put their
heads together during the Academic Tech Bowl. |
6) “ENGINEER” — you can't spell it without “G.E.E.!”
5) It's either that or “Broccoli Awareness Week.”
4) What else have you got to do in the third week in February?
3) Spring will come early if enough engineers emerge from the shadows.
2) Pocket protectors! Pocket protectors! Pocket protectors!
1) Because 1,800,000 engineers can't be wrong!
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Alex Liu, CSCI '04, and Sophia Fang, BMEC junior, at the ball. |
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The
ball — Left to right, Aaron Wong, BMEE junior, Andrea Cheung, CHEB
sophomore, Rachel Morford, EE sophomore, Kim Tran, EE sophomore, and Peter Wong,
EE senior,enjoy a romantic evening at The Proud Bird. |
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Students got dressed up to meet with engineering companies at the Career Fair. |
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Daunish Aboobaker, a junior CECS major interested in digital signal processing,
talked with Microsoft, EA Games and IBM during the Career Fair. |
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Morgan Hendry,left, a senior astronautics major,discusses his interest in robotics
research with Reggie Thompson, a Human Resources specialist at Toyota. |
