By Dr. Caryn Long, Director of Educational Technology and Innovation
Founded by NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers) in 1951, EWeek is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.
EWeek is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, education, and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies. Dedicated to raising public awareness of engineers’ positive contributions to quality of life, EWeek promotes recognition among parents, teachers, and students of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science, and technology literacy, and motivates youth, to pursue engineering careers to provide a diverse and vigorous engineering workforce.
Each year, EWeek reaches thousands of schools, businesses, and community groups across the U.S.
EWeek celebrations began last year at MVA under the leadership of Ms. Chris Burrell, Engineering and Robotics instructor who highlights the engineering program at MVA. The program uses a national curriculum called Project Lead the Way that allows the Academy to offer a multi-dimensional approach for instructing our students about engineering fields like aerospace, civil, maker space, principles and essentials of engineering. On Tuesday, our Engineering Day event highlighted these fields and others through activities led by Ms. Burrell’s students and volunteers from several companies who shared their career paths. To wrap up the week, Ms. Mikayla Eksteen, a final-year biomedical engineering student at the University of Birmingham, Alabama, shared her expertise and spoke to students interested in the field.
