ASHRAE Celebrates National Engineers Week.
Press Release Summary:
ASHRAE is a partner in National Engineers Week, which celebrates contributions engineering makes to society and encourages engineering career paths among young students by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. Gordon Holness, who serves as ASHRAE President, expressed pride in being involved in this program and celebration. Part of this week-long celebration, ASHRAE-launched New Faces program promotes accomplishments of young engineers across various disciplines.
Original Press Release:
ASHRAE Celebrates National Engineers Week
ATLANTA Engineers dont just shape our buildings and infrastructure; they help shape our world.
The Atlanta-based American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) is a partner in the National Engineers Week program (Feb. 14-20), a celebration of the contributions that engineering makes to our society and encourages engineering as a career path among young students by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. For specific information about the program, please visit www.EWeek.org.
National Engineers Week showcases how our profession truly engineers the world we live in, ASHRAE President Gordon Holness, said. From buildings to manufacturing and transportation, engineers have been behind so many modern-day marvels. ASHRAE is proud to be involved in this program and celebration.
ASHRAE has twice served as lead organization in National Engineers Week. The last time, in 2003, ASHRAE launched the New Faces of Engineering program as part of the weekly celebration.
The New Faces program promotes the accomplishments of young engineers across various disciplines by highlighting their engineering contributions and the resulting impact on public welfare. The program targets those age 30 and younger. Engineering associations, societies and government groups nominate candidates each year, from which 15 are selected for recognition in USA Today.
ASHRAEs New Face for 2010 is Aaron Smith, a mechanical engineer at M&R Engineering, Ltd., Halifax, Nova Scotia. Smith has travelled the world bringing engineering to isolated communities, from wind project in northern Alaska, to solar energy projects in Nicaragua. Smith also wrote a bilingual construction manual based on the photovoltaic assembly techniques and organized an educational workshop on solar ovens. Other recent projects include a maintenance facility and a farmers market that incorporate geothermal heat pumps with solar thermal assist, wind turbines, in-floor radiant heating, natural ventilation and dedicated outdoor air systems with energy recovery.
The New Faces of Engineering will be featured in USA Today on Tuesday, February 16.
Several events will take place in conjunction with National Engineers Week, including Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (Feb.20) and the Future City Competition.
Now in its 18th year, the competition attracted 33,000 middle-school students during the 2009-2010 school year from a record-breaking 1,100 schools in diverse regions across America to work with teachers and volunteer engineers to envision the future in large, tabletop models of cities of tomorrow. The teams presented their Future Cities before engineer judges at regional competitions in January. First place teams from qualifying regional competitions won a trip to Washington for the Future City National Finals, February 15-17. For more information, visit www.futurecity.org. ASHRAE will be presenting special awards for sustainability and indoor air quality.
ASHRAE, founded in 1894, is an international organization of 55,000 persons. ASHRAE fulfills its mission of advancing heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world through research, standards writing, publishing and continuing education.
Amanda Dean
Public Relations
678-539-1216
adean@ashrae.org
