Were you a part of one of the Engineers’ Week celebrations listed below? Tell us your story at eweekpublicity@gmail.com!
1970 – Engoy It!
- Started October 11
- A week dedicated to the Powerful “E”
1971
- October 10-15
- See the 1971 button here!
1972
1973 – Engineering Science, Harmony with Nature
1974 – It Takes an Engineer
- October 1-4
- Speaker – Roger Zweig, NASA Aeronautical Test Pilot
- Governor Robert Ray was mad an honorary Engineer
- See the 1974 button here!
1975 – Engineering for Tomorrow, Today
- October 6-10
- Speaker – Tom Harkin
- Keg Roll competition was held on October 10, winning team won a keg of their own
- See the 1975 button here!
1976 – Imagination Plus
- October 3-8
- Major event – “The First-Maybe Annual-Engineers’ Week Paper Airplane Fly-Off”
1977 – Focus on Innovation
- Speaker – Astronaut Don Lind gave a NASA Space Shuttle Presentation “To Space and Beyond”
- See the 1977 button here!
1978 – Everyone’s an Engineer
- October 9-14
- Speaker – Stephen Schneider, head of the Climate Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado
- Events included a Paper Airplane Contest
- See the 1978 button here!
1979
- Events included an Egg drop contest from the top of Marston Hall
- See the 1979 button here!
