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1970 Engineers' Week
1970 Engineers’ Week

1970 – Engoy It!

  • Started October 11
  • A week dedicated to the Powerful “E”

1971

  • October 10-15
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1972

1973 – Engineering Science, Harmony with Nature

 

1971 Engineers' Week
1971 Engineers’ Week

1974 – It Takes an Engineer

  • October 1-4
  • Speaker – Roger Zweig, NASA Aeronautical Test Pilot
  • Governor Robert Ray was mad an honorary Engineer
  • See the 1974 button here!

1975 – Engineering for Tomorrow, Today

  • October 6-10
  • Speaker – Tom Harkin
  • Keg Roll competition was held on October 10, winning team won a keg of their own
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1976 – Imagination Plus

  • October 3-8
  • Major event – “The First-Maybe Annual-Engineers’ Week Paper Airplane Fly-Off”

1977 – Focus on Innovation

  • Speaker – Astronaut Don Lind gave a NASA Space Shuttle Presentation “To Space and Beyond”
  • See the 1977 button here!

1978 – Everyone’s an Engineer

  • October 9-14
  • Speaker – Stephen Schneider, head of the Climate Project, National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado
  • Events included a Paper Airplane Contest
  • See the 1978 button here!

1979

  • Events included an Egg drop contest from the top of Marston Hall
  • See the 1979 button here!

 

The 1980’s

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