Engineer Mentors Resources
Click here to download the engineer mentor registration form.
Engineers are an integral part of the team who serve as volunteer mentors to the school-based teams.
For more information or to volunteer email dramsey@spsu.edu or call Dawn Ramsey at (770) 713-7337
ENGINEER MENTOR
The engineer serves as an advisor to the students. The engineer should be available in all phases of the Future City Competition Project to provide assistance to the team. The engineer’s advice can be in the form of technical help as to how science is applied to the city; how to build models; and how to make technical presentations. The engineer should encourage the students to prepare a plan prior to beginning a design. He or she should also keep the students’ ideas based on reality or an extension of current theories. The mentor should always keep the rules in mind and assist the students in understanding and following them. It should be noted that the students must do the actual creation of the city, model, and essays. The engineer can certainly critique and advise the students as to how to make their city technically better and help them better function as a Project Team. The engineer is also the logical one to enlighten the students on the history of engineering and the roles the different disciplines play. The students may very well have to answer questions during the competition about the engineering tasks required to make their future city, and they should be prepared to answer them.
Since its beginning in 1951, National Engineers Week® has been the only
national event celebrating the engineering profession. Its mission is
to increase public awareness and appreciation of the engineering profession and technology by emphasizing the positive contributions that engineers make to our quality of life. Thousands of engineers, teachers and their students, and leaders in government and business participate in National Engineers Week each year. To help students better understand the practical applications of mathematics and scientific principles, the National Engineers Week Committee is sponsoring the seventeenth annual National Engineers Week Future City™ Competition.
The National Engineers Week Future City™ Competition is a National Engineers Week educational program for seventh and eighth-grade students to foster interest in math, science and engineering through hands-on, real world applications. The competition is open to all public, private, and parochial schools in selected areas.
The Future City Competition recognizes a team as three students, one engineer mentor, and one teacher and prizes are awarded as such.