The Philadelphia Regional Future City Competition, an educational outreach program of National Engineers Week, is one of 40 Regional programs conducted throughout the country with the goal to introduce middle school students to the engineering profession. Students in middle schools in the Delaware Valley form teams who work with a teacher and an engineer mentor from September to January to design and lay out a city of the future using Sim4 computer software; build a table-top model using recycled materials illustrating one section of the city; write an essay on a specific topic; present the city model to teams of judges at an all-day competition on January 28 at the Philadelphia Sheet Metal Workers Facility on Delaware Avenue. Special Awards, made possible by our sponsors, provide the students the opportunity to present their cities to more than just the competition judges and provide them with a feeling of accomplishment even if they were not a finalist in the competition. Check out futurecityphilly.org for more information on volunteer and sponsorship opportunities.  

2012 Engineers Week in the Delaware Valley kicks off with the Awards and Proclamation Luncheon. This year’s luncheon will be at the beautiful DoubleTree Hotel Philadelphia, in the heart of the Avenue of the Arts. We will present the Delaware Valley Engineers Week Awards at the luncheon. Formal festivities will get underway with the Student Paper Poster Session and Reception, featuring a cash bar, beginning at 11:00 AM. Come out and meet the award recipients, talk to the students about their papers, and network with your fellow engineers. Following lunch, we will present the various DVEW awards. The 2012 Engineer of the Year, Timothy Haahs, PE, AIA, will be formally introduced. Mr. Haahs and the 2012 Young Engineer of the Year, Cathy Farrell, PE, will make brief remarks and kick off the celebration of Engineers Week in the Delaware Valley.   read more...

The Central Pennsylvania Engineers Week Council (CPEWC) encourages everyone to get involved in Engineers week as much as possible, either by volunteering at the E-Week events, setting up a mall display during E-week, submitting and article for the E-week supplement in the Patriot or bringing your children out to the events and the displays. Please contact Chris May (cmay@pennoni.com) or visit THE CPEWC website (www.cpewc.com) for more information.