Second Annual Engineering Week Begins March 6 at UA

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The University of Alabama College of Engineering will host its second annual E-Week on March 6-12. The purpose of E-Week is to foster relationships throughout the College of Engineering community.

Students will be involved in the following events throughout the week:

• Girl Scouts Engineering Day – On March 6 from 8 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. in Hardaway Hall, approximately 50 junior Girl Scouts from all over West Alabama will visit UA to learn about the College of Engineering. This event, hosted by UA’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, will include informative activities, such as a recycling project, panel discussions and a technology scavenger hunt. They will also participate in a “Have Lunch with an Engineer” hour, during which the girls will have the option of discussing opportunities in the fields of engineering and technology with the student and faculty members of SWE. At the end of this event, the girls will have earned their technology badge.
• Egg Drop Competition – On March 9 in front of Woods Hall at 3:30 p.m., student teams will be given a box of 10 items in order to construct a device that will contain a raw egg. The egg will be dropped in the device from a specific height. Each team will be judged on creativity of the device and whether or not the egg survives.
• Bowling Competition – Students, faculty and staff may enter the bowling competition to take place at Bama Lanes on March 10 at 9:30 p.m. The registration fee is $25, and teams must consist of five members.
• Duct Tape Competition – On March 11 at 3:30 p.m. on the first floor hall in Hardaway Hall, student teams will be given two rolls of duct tape and must tape one team member to the wall in 15 minutes. The team whose member stays taped to the wall the longest will be declared the winner. The team member to be taped to the wall can weigh no less than 150 pounds, and he or she will only be allowed to use a chair to stand on during the initial taping. Extra points will be given to teams that do not use their entire roll of tape.

Other events scheduled for E-Week include a faculty/student cookout and a day for alumni to speak to engineering classes.

In 1837, UA became the first university in the state to offer engineering classes and was one of the first five in the nation to do so. Today, the College of Engineering, with about 1,900 students and more than 90 faculty, is one of the three oldest continuously operating engineering programs in the country and has been fully accredited since accreditation standards were implemented in the 1930s.