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Wait -- did you say I could meet the Lead Engineer of the Mars Pathfinder
Project?

	Yes. I did. And WE NEED YOUR HELP TO MAKE IT A SUCCESS!! We have lined up
Mrs. Linda Robeck for National Engineers Week (February 18th-24th, 2001).
Read about her at the end of this e-mail!!

We are having a meeting TONIGHT for Engineers' Week, and WE NEED YOUR HELP.

The meeting is at 10:30 PM TONIGHT, Oct. 23rd, in the Connan Room, in the
UC.

When is she coming?
February 18th-24th, 2001; during National Engineers Week. She will be doing
a variety of events during that week, including the Women in Science &
Engineering Dinner (WISE), interacting with students and professors,
participating in our fun National Engineers' Week

What is National Engineers' Week?
	It is a week around the country to celebrate the accomplishments
of engineers & scientists, and also to answer questions about what
engineers do. At Carnegie Mellon, we use it to introduce the whole student
body to engineering, by having inspirational speakers, fun events such as
building competitions between the design & engineering students & sport
competitions between the various majors, and also information sessions &
speakers from various companies that may want to introduce what
opportunities are available there.

What events will take place during National Engineers' week?

1. Sports Competitions:
	Battle with your professor in basketball, volleyball, and maybe even Joust
with them!

2. Engineering competitions:
	Build the world's (actually the Wiegand Gym's) largest & tastiest
Marshmellow toothpick tower!
	Play with robots in racing competitions

3. Inspirational speakers & Seminars:
	Linda Robeck, the Lead Engineer from the Mars Pathfinder Project.
	Francoise Legouise, a Senior Researcher from IBM, and a CMU Alumni.
	"Brand You" by the Tom Peters' Company -- jointly with the CMU Career
Center -- how to effectively get the job you want, and always do interesting
projects there.

4. A night at Dave and Busters with all your friends:
	We will be renting out Dave and Busters in Pittsburgh that week so everyone
can have a blast!

5. Other events that YOU find fun and interesting! We want your feedback and
great ideas! This is a week put on by the students, for the students.

Do I have to be an engineer to join the committee?

No. Engineers' week is for all of the students on campus, not just the
Engineers and Computer Science folk. We want everyone to help!!


How can I help?

Come to our meeting tonight, in the Connan Room at 10:30pm.

We are finalizing our tasks for the week. We need people (both engineers,
and non-engineers) to help out with the following tasks:

1. Fundraising. Renting out Dave and Busters, and having a famous engineer
speak costs money.
2. Introducing Speakers & seminars that week.
3. Advertising and Marketing, so all your friends know what's going to be
happening that week!
4. Event Coordinators -- so we can play our professors in a friendly
Jousting competition, go to Dave and Busters on a shuttle, and work through
all the logistics.

We need at least 25 people to make this week spectacular!!

So get psyched, and come to our meeting tonight!

10:30pm in the Connan Room. Got it?

If you cannot make it, please e-mail me (akj@andrew.cmu.edu) with your
contact information, and how you'd like to help!

Ajay Juneja
Treasurer, National Engineers' Week 2001

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About Linda Robeck (from www.ivillage.com/womenwhorule/


> -----------------------------
> As the deputy manager of the Mars Pathfinder Assembly, Test and Launch
> Operations Mechanical Team in 1996, Linda Robeck isn't someone about
whom
> could be said, "She's no rocket scientist." As a ten-year veteran at
> NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Robeck was able to make her
> teenage interest in space travel come to life. Not only was she
> instrumental in the Mars Pathfinder mission, but she assisted in the
> development of a robotic spacecraft that will explore Mars, Jupiter and
> Saturn.
>
> After the successful Pathfinder mission, in which the world was held
> spellbound with photos from Mars surface, Robeck went to work on saving
> the environment. As a cognizant engineer in the Tropospheric Emission
> Spectrometer Pointing Control Subsystem, the 35-year-old Stanford
graduate
> is at work on an earth-orbiting satellite that will help determine what
is
> causing the hole in the ozone layer to grow. And if exploring Mars and
> saving the environment isn't enough, Robeck is actively involved in the
> JPL Speakers Bureau with an emphasis on providing a professional female
> role model for youth, especially young girls.
>
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>
>	 Here are some additional links which have information about her:
>
> http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/pa/News/032798.html
> http://planetary.org/html/mmp/astro/robel/robel70.htm
> http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/bios/lr.html
> http://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/1999-Fall/announce.robeck.html