Events for the 24 th Annual DuPage Area Engineers Week Expo will be held Thursday, February 21 and Saturday, February 23, 2008 at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus at 201 East Loop Road in Wheaton. Events are free and open to the public. The theme for the 2008 Expo is “Engineered in Illinois.” The goal of the Expo is to ensure a dedicated, diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. While the Expo's target age group is middle school, people of all ages will enjoy the displays and presentations.
The Engineers Week Expo features a building full of hands-on activities and demonstrations to allow young people to experience and explore the fields of engineering. The 2008 Expo will be Saturday February 23, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Illinois Institute of Technology's Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus at 201 East Loop Road in Wheaton. Presentations are directed toward introducing students of all ages and their parents to the current state of technology and advances being made throughout industry. The cooperation of the professional engineering societies, academic organizations and industry provide a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art as well as generating an interest in the sciences among the program's visitors. The Saturday event, February 23, 2008, is from 11:00 AM to 3:30 PM. .
In addition, there will be a presentation and discussion on Thursday evening, February 21, 2008 at Illinois Institute of Technology's Rice Campus in Wheaton. The speaker, Jim Patchett, founder of Conservation Designs Forum, will be discussing green roof design. Conservation Design Forum designed Chicago’s City Hall green roof. The presentation will begin with an overview of green technologies and sustainability, leading to a more specific discussion of green roof design. The Speaker’s Forum is designed for adults, and is open to the public. For more information on the Speaker’s Forum, visit the website at www.rice.iit.edu/engineersweek.
The first DuPage Area Engineers' Week Open House was held in 1985 at Midwest College of Engineering in Lombard, Illinois. In 1986 Midwest College merged with Illinois Institute of Technology to form a new, west-suburban campus called IIT West, now the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus. Over the last approximately twenty years, the west suburban campus of Illinois Institute of Technology has hosted the annual Engineers Week celebration.
Please join us for one or more of these activities. And check out the Web site from time to time to see what’s new: www.rice.iit.edu/engineersweek. For more information on the DuPage program, call 630.682.6040 or kozi@iit.edu.