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Engineers Week

EWeek Recap 2009

Engineers play a vital role in ensuring public safety, improving quality of life, and designing the innovations of the future. Career opportunities for engineers are boundless, yet not enough young people are choosing to enter the engineering profession.

Engineers Week (EWeek) aims to increase public understanding of engineering as well as pre-college interest and enthusiasm in the profession. Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, the program is now governed by a steering committee of more than 20 professional engineering societies and sponsored by more than 50 corporations.

CH2M HILL has supported EWeek since 1997 as the firm's flagship science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education outreach program. Each February hundreds of employees from CH2M HILL offices across North America volunteer their time to serve as mentors, teachers, and judges in a variety of activities, including engineering competitions, technology and science fairs, classroom presentations, hands-on activities, and project site visits. By engaging students in activities that help them understand how science, math, and technology can be used to solve real world problems and make a difference in society, CH2M HILL is helping to inspire the next generation of engineers.

In addition to EWeek, our employees are actively engaged in programs that reach out to K-12 students year-round. These programs include:

Thank you for visiting our school. I really learned a lot. I am really interested in engineering, and my best subjects are math and science. It is great that you make it possible for us to have clean drinking water, and you build factories that produce energy and power.

—Mary Evelyn

League Academy of Communication Arts
Greenville, South Carolina, USA

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