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Many engineering students watched the egg drop competition during Engineers day on Oct. 20, 2016 inside Min Kao building. Adrien Terricabras • The Daily Beacon
Eggciting news: UT Engineers Day attracts 1,500 high schoolers Sean Kennedy Contributor
The 104th Engineers Day was on Thursday, Oct. 20, attracting 1,500 high school students to learn about engineering fields and what they can do in the profession and in UT’s College of Engineering. The day began at Thompson-Boling Arena, where keynote speaker Dave Wilson, the vice president of product marketing for software, academics and customer education at National Instruments, addressed hundreds of Tennessee high school students. “In a world full of challenges, it is engineers
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who discover and create things to solve society’s problems,” Wilson said. “Students like you won’t just make a difference in the world, you will build a difference. You will engineer a difference.” “It’s engineers that build things like giant windmills for alternative sources of energy, perfect software programs for the internet and develop effective cellular network communications systems. Students like you have the ability to discover and create great things, too.” The event was hosted by Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering society founded in 1885. John Dooley, president of the UT chapter of Tau Beta Pi, sees Engineers Day as an important opportunity for current UT engineering students and faculty to promote the engineer-
ing program to prospective students. “Coming into UT, I had only heard of engineering in the context of Thomas the Tank Engine. I thought engineers wore striped hats and pulled whistles on trains,” Dooley said. “But it didn’t take long for me to learn that engineers create everything from medicines and cellphone microprocessors to sewer systems and 3D printed organs.” Going back over 100 years, Engineers Day has a long history of competition among both UT students and those visiting from high schools in Tennessee. Competitions this year included the egg drop competition, the penny boat competition, the balsa wood bridge competition and the pneumatic machine competition.
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One of the more popular competitions is the Quiz Bowl, where the visiting high school students complete a series of exams consisting of 60-70 questions in groups of four that test their skills in math and science. The Quiz Bowl consists of three separate rounds until one team is crowned the winner. A total of 17 engineers were brought in from outside the university to judge the various competitions throughout the day. All judges had occupations in different fields of engineering, including civil, nuclear, mechanical and electrical engineers. New and prospective students interested in the UT College of Engineering are encouraged to visit www.engr.utk.edu to learn more about specific engineering programs offered at UT.
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