Text Box: N.E.W. 2011 Theme: Turing Ideas Into Reality Text Box: http://www.new-sandiego.org/
National Engineers Week

San Diego 2011 Awards Banquet

 

Text Box: Friday February 25, 2011, 6–9:30pm The Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice University of San Diego Campus 5998 Alcala Park, San Diego, CA 92110 (Free parking at the Joan Kroc Institute and self parking in any adjacent student or faculty lot or street space after 5pm)

Keynote Speaker: Miriam Goldstein

Miriam Goldstein is a Ph.D. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UCSD studying biological oceanography.  She has an M.S. in Marine Biology from SIO at UCSD and a B.S. in Biology from Brown University.  For her thesis work, she is investigating the distribution and abundance of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre, as well as the potential for plastic debris to impact the distributions of invasive species.  Miriam is an avid educator and actively popularizes science with appearances and articles on CNN, CBS News, National Geographic, Associated Press, Union Tribune, NPR Science Friday, and PRI’s The World, and many other media outlets.

Keynote Topic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

In August 2009, as chief scientist on the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX), Miriam Goldstein led a group of doctoral students and research volunteers on a 20-day expedition to study the “Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch” with an estimated area the size of Texas.  Miriam will discuss why plastic is accumulating in the remote open ocean, what the “Garbage Patch” looks like, and how it impacts the marine ecosystem. She will discuss current efforts to control marine plastic pollution through prevention, legislation, and technology.
 
 

 


 

 

 

 

 


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National Engineers Week in San Diego 2011

February 20th – 26th 

 

The National Engineers Week Foundation is a formal coalition of more than 100 professional societies, major corporations and government agencies and is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce. This is done by increasing understanding of an interest in engineering and technology careers among young students and by promoting pre-college literacy in math and science. National Engineers Week also raises public understanding and appreciation of engineers' contributions to society. Although it is participated in nationally, each major county puts together their own week and San Diego county does just that. The week in San Diego has many events with the culmination being the awards banquet which sponsored by the San Diego County Engineering Council (SDCEC) and hosted on the beautiful campus of the University of San Diego (USD) at the Joan Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (KIPJ).

Last year the contributing societies were:

AIAA                       American Institute of Astronautics and Aeronautics

ASCE                     American Society of Civil Engineers

ASHRAE                                American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers

ASME                     American Society of Mechanical Engineers

ASQ                        American Society of Quality

CSPE                     California Society of Professional Engineers

IEEE                       Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

INCOSE                 International Council on Systems Engineering

SAME                     Society of American Military Engineers

SEAOSD               Structural Engineers Association of San Diego

SHPE                     Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

SME                       Society of Manufacturing Engineers

SWE                       Society of Women Engineers

Each year one of the many professional engineering societies leads the committee to put on National Engineers Week. This year the general chair is the American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers (ASHRAE) and the theme is “Turning Ideas Into Reality”. This year’s San Diego National Engineers Week will have events such as Engineers Day at Grossmont Mall and Math Counts at UCSD to go along with the Awards Banquet.

The awards banquet will be on Feb 25th. Along with dinner, the night will include giving out awards from around San Diego County in the categories of:

·         Outstanding Engineer

·         Outstanding Engineering Educator

·         Outstanding Engineering Project

·         The Dr. Thomas Avolt Kanneman Outstanding Engineering Service Award

The night will be capped by the Keynote Speaker: Miriam Goldstein. The very current topic will be “The Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. Miriam is a Ph.D. student at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UCSD studying biological oceanography with an M.S. in Marine Biology from SIO at UCSD and a B.S. in Biology from Brown University. Miriam is an active science popularizer and educator, and has appeared on CNN, CBS, NPR Science Friday, and PRI’s The World, among many other media outlets. For her thesis work, she investigates the distribution and abundance of plastic debris in the North Pacific Gyre, as well as the potential for plastic debris to impact the distributions of invasive species. In August 2009, she served as chief scientist on the Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastic Expedition (SEAPLEX). She led a group of doctoral students and research volunteers on a 20-day expedition to study the “Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch” with an estimated area the size of Texas. She will discuss why plastic is accumulating in the remote open ocean, what the “Garbage Patch” looks like, and how it impacts the marine ecosystem based on current scientific research. She will end with a discussion of current efforts to control marine plastic pollution through prevention, legislation, and technology.