2009 Engineers Week Boston Sponsors

DIAMOND
FM Global

PLATINUM
AECOM
Donovan Hatem


GOLD
Parsons Brinckerhoff

SILVER
CDM
Draper Laboratory
Gale Associates
MSPE

BRONZE
HNTB Corporation
Fay, Spofford & Thorndike
STV
Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc
Women's Transportation Seminar

SUPPORTER
Environmental Partners Group
Wentworth Institute of Technology

Sponsorships Still Available!

CLICK HERE TO BECOME A LOCAL SPONSOR FOR 2009

Committee Officers:
Reed Brockman, P.E., AECOM, Co-Chair

Crystale Dion, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Co-Chair

Katie Moulton, P.E., Parsons Brinckerhoff, Treasurer

Boston Celebrates Engineers Week
February 12 & 13, 2009

Schedule of Events

Thursday, February 12

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Career Fair Advice and Successful Strategies
Maureen Crawford Hentz, Manager of Talent Acquisition for Osram Sylvania, will lead this free session to help students know what to expect at a career fair, how to best maximize their time, how to make a good impression and how to follow up. Students will learn helpful hints ot impress recruiters at and after the career fair.

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Student Design Challenges
Hands-on design challenges for middle school students from the PBS series "Design Sqad" and the Museum of Science. Includes special tour of the Career Night.

4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Career Fair
Participating firms will have tabletop displays to provide information to students on firm capabilities, technical disciplines, and job openings.

Contribution from participating firms to cover room and refreshments: $600 per firm.

To register for a tabletop display or for more information, please contact John Conrad at 978/657-3499 or econrad@systems.textron.com

Friday, February 13

11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Reception, Luncheon, and Awards Program
Hyatt Regency Boston, One Avenue de Lafayette

Join us in awarding the New England Achievement Award, Engineers Week Scholarship, Model Bridge Competition Awards and more at this year's luncheon.

Keynote Speaker
Helen Greiner, Cofounder of iRobot Corporation
Helen Greiner is Co-Founder of iRobot Corporation, a company delivering robots to the industrial, consumer, academic, and military markets. She was named an Ernst and Young New England Entrepreneur of the Year for 2003 (with iRobot co-founder Colin Angle). She has also been honored as a Technology Review "Innovator for the Next Century," invited to the World Economic Forums as a Global Leader of Tomorrow, and has received the prestigious DEMO God Award at the 2001 DEMO Conference. Her 20 years of experience in robotic technology includes work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Science, both from MIT.

New England Achievement Award Recipient
Amy B. Smith, Inventor and Founder of the MIT D-Lab
Amy B. Smith is the founder of the MIT D-Lab and a leader in the field of Appropriate Technology, creating inventions that directly improve lives in developing nations. This Lexington native and MIT graduate has dedicated herself to fighting poverty through innovative engineering and shows results through actions, both actively inventing and teaching others to do the same, while breaking down barriers of technological literacy and debunking stereotypes associated with the field of engineering. Ms. Smith has won numerous awards including the 2008 Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Leadership Award, the 1988 JFK Peace Corps Volunteer of the Year Award, and the 2000 MIT-Lemelson Student Prize for Invention. She instructs at the MIT Edgerton Center, and through her D-Lab, in which her students travel overseas and work directly with communities, she teaches students the value of "keeping it simple" and inspires countless people through her global vision.

Click here to register online for the luncheon.

Click here for the luncheon registration form and Engineers Week 2009 flyer.

For questions regarding the luncheon, please contact The Engineering Center at 617/227-5551 or email engineersweek@engineers.org