{"127141":{"#nid":"127141","#data":{"type":"news","title":"NRE: Winning Major during GT Engineers Week","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ENational Engineers Week ran from February 19-25 and featured campus-wide events and competitions for people all of interests whether they were engineering majors or not. This year\u0027s version of the annual event saw over 400 Georgia Tech students participate in a wide range of events including a friendly competition between the engineering majors. Points were awarded for placing first ro second in daily competitions as well as for participation with the results being normalized for major size.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe winning major of the inaugural competition, organized by the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society, was the nuclear and radiological engineering program from the George W. Woodruff School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENRE took the top prize in the Skyscraper competition and egg drop contest and placed second in both the paper airplane contest and film canister rocket competition. Other activities included a comedy night, chalking competition, Engineers Week Fair and charity food drive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn April 11 professor Bojan Petrovic and student Christopher Warren accepted NRE\u0027s award on behalf of their major. A plaque will be displayed in the College of Engineering in honor of their achievement and a trophy will be housed by NRE until they defend their title during next year\u0027s Engineers week.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022It\u0027s impressive that nuclear engineering, which is one of our smaller degree programs, was able to compete so well and win the competition,\u0022 said Gary May, dean of the College of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Every year we\u0027re excited about our students participating in National Engineers Week. It\u0027s a special time of the year at Georgia Tech and as the largest producer of engineers in the country we\u0027re very happy to see so many of our students getting involved in the activities.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA national program, Engineers Week is part of many corporate and government cultures and is celebrated on every U.S. engineering college campus. Engineers Week 2011 celebrated a 60th anniversary (1951-2011).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Engineers Week Trophy Awarded"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27620","created_gmt":"2012-04-27 14:56:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:12:04","author":"Melissa Zbeeb","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2012-04-20T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"127151":{"id":"127151","type":"image","title":"NRE Engineers Week Winner","body":null,"created":"1449178604","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:36:44","changed":"1475894751","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:51","alt":"NRE Engineers Week Winner","file":{"fid":"194536","name":"imag0222.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/imag0222_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/imag0222_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":891258,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/imag0222_0.jpg?itok=kxWnDKfG"}}},"media_ids":["127151"],"groups":[{"id":"108731","name":"School of Mechanical Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1236","name":"engineers week"},{"id":"32211","name":"NRE"},{"id":"32201","name":"Nuclear and Radiological Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECollege of Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}