The first Engineers Week in more than a decade will feature activities such as cardboard boat races, popsicle stick bridges and an egg drop at Cal State Long Beach Feb. 21-25.
“Engineers Week has not been held at CSULB in years,” said Daniel Hernandez, president of the Associated Engineering Student Body (AESB). “We have records and pictures indicating it was a big event back in the ’80s and ’90s. At some point, E-Week dwindled and became E-Day [which] was merged into Kaleidoscope and when Kaleidoscope lost funding, the E-Day celebrations faded as well.”
Most schools have an Engineers Week, according to Katie Johns, E-Life coordinator and co-founder. It is nationally recognized and always held on the third week of February.
“It’s pretty exciting,” said Thomas Wilson, treasurer of AESB. “It’s a good feeling, scary but [a] good feeling.”
Hernandez said one of his main goals when he ran for president of AESB last year was to make E-Week happen.
He also spoke to the student organizations and the College of Engineering and they voted to proceed with E-Week. Hernandez said the AESB led the charge.
Johns said 24 engineering organizations, representing all disciplines of the department, will be present at E-Week.
Hernandez said the Society of Women Engineers will present the Mr. and Ms. Engineering Pageant, the Society of Mexican-American Engineers is presenting an engineering game show and much more is taking place.
Johns said, “I think E-Week is a really awesome way to teach people about engineering and what we do.”
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