National Engineers Week: Inspiring Wonder

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National Engineers Week is a week that is devoted to celebrating engineers and all of the awesome things that engineers have accomplished.  All around the country, colleges and universities celebrated Engineers Week with various activities throughout the week.  Purdue celebrates National Engineers Week a little later in the year, usually in March or April; that’s ok though because that just means engineers at Purdue get to have two weeks devoted to them!

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This year National Engineers is from February 18th- February 24th. This year the theme for National Engineers is “Inspiring Wonder”.  This means, taking a step back to recognize the amazing engineers who have made todays awe-inspiring wonders such as skyscrapers. This theme is an awesome choice, because there really is no limit to what you can do as an engineer.  With a degree from Purdue University, you will have the skills and talents to really create some amazing things that will change our world for the better.  And at Purdue, you can start inspiring wonder before you graduate.  There are so many awesome opportunities for undergrads at Purdue to dream big and start changing the world early on in their engineering career.  Check them out below!

Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS)

EPICS is a great way for students at Purdue to get hands on experience with real world engineering projects, while also serving to better the community.  EPICS offers many different projects that aim to help a variety of different people, both locally and internationally.  Check out the link below to see some of the EPICS teams and the projects they’ve worked on: https://engineering.purdue.edu/EPICS

Engineer Without Borders

 Engineers Without Borders is a group at Purdue that works on projects with communities around the world in order to help them meet their basic human needs and provide them with pathways to new opportunities.  Currently, the Engineers Without Borders group at Purdue is working on water and biogas projects in Uganda.  Check out the link below to see how their impacting the world: https://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/ewb/about.html

Purdue Timmy Global Health

Purdue Timmy Global Health is a group at Purdue that aims to promote public health, serve the underprivileged and provide medical services to underserved communities.  In addition to doing projects in the West Lafayette Community, Purdue Timmy Global Health has also participated in medical service trips to Ecuador and Atlanta, Georgia. Personally, I will be spending my upcoming spring break serving on the domestic trip to Atlanta. Check out this link to learn more about what they do: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~timmy/

The groups listed above are just a few ways that students at Purdue are inspiring.  There are so many more groups and clubs at Purdue that allow students to use their talents and impact the world.  In addition, there are also many classes at Purdue that encourage students to dream big and create amazing things, such as a toy design class in mechanical engineering, senior design, and my sophomore design class that I am taking right now!

How are you inspiring wondere? Let us know in the comments, or tweet us @PurdueWIEP ,or let us know on Instagram @purduewiep! 


-Megan Tandarich
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