Engineering Council of Houston 2017 Awards Banquet
Contact Sue Pritchett: 281-451-6522
Tickets cost $50 each, or $500 for a table (ten seats)
You are cordially invited to join the Engineering, Science, & Technology Council of Houston for the 2017 Awards Celebration
The Reception will provide time for networking among Engineering, Science & Technology Council of Houston (ECH) member societies regarding common interests and challenges. Area leaders in K-12 Outreach will discuss opportunities for ECH member societies. In addition, Science Fair Grand Prize winners and Houston Museum of Natural Science (HMNS) Summer Interns will display their exhibits and discuss their projects.
Saud Memon will present the HMNS Interns for this summer and will briefly discuss the annual intern program. HMNS appreciates the local science and engineering organizations, such as ECH, that support this program, and welcomes other societies to actively participate in this program. There are always opportunities for more summer internships. The interns research, build, and automate some of the permanent exhibits of the museum and planetarium. For example, they built the molecular models in the Chemistry Hall and developed the interactive Q&A on the associated touch screens. Interns also wrote the upgraded computer programming for the planetarium, the butterfly exhibit, and the live feed from the oceanographic research ship, Nautilus. They also conduct museum tours for students.
Annual Excellence in Education awards will be announced after dinner. They recognize particularly successful programs by corporations, nonprofit organizations, and school systems.
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- Date: 01 Jun 2017
- Time: 05:30 PM to 08:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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- 5430 Westheimer Rd
- Houston, Texas
- United States 77056
- Building: HESS Club
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Contact Sue Pritchett: 281-451-6522
Tickets cost $50 each, or $500 for a table (ten seats)
Registration Deadline Monday May 29, 2017
- Co-sponsored by Sue Pritchett
Speakers
Dr. Patricia H. Reiff of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
Magnetism, MMS, and the Solar Eclipse 2017
Magnetism is ubiquitous, defending our planet from energetic particles, protecting our atmosphere, and defining the large-scale structure of the Universe.
Biography:
Professor Patricia H. Reiff is a Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and was the founding Director of the Rice Space Institute at Rice University. Her research focuses on space plasma physics, mostly in the area of magnetospheric physics: "space weather". She is a Co-Investigator for the "Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission" which launched in March 12, 2015. She is instrumental in bringing real-time space weather forecasts and "Space Weather" information to the public.
She has also been a leader in public education activities, including the creation and marketing of "Discovery Domes", portable digital theaters to teach earth and space science, with over 300 installations in 35 countries and 34 states, through her distribution company ePlanetarium. She is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has received the "Athelstan Spilhaus Award" and the "SPARC" Award for service in public education. She has served on advisory committees for NASA, NSF, NCAR, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NAS/NRC and AAU.
Dr. Patricia H. Reiff of Physics & Astronomy, Rice University
Magnetism, MMS, and the Solar Eclipse 2017
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Agenda
Reception Student Projects 5:30 PM
Welcome* Saud Memon 6:30
Science Fair Winners Dr. Heather Domjan 6:35
HMNS Summer Interns Saud Memon 7:00n
Special Awards Sue Pritchett 7:20
Keynote Speaker Dr. Patricia Reiff 7:30
Installation of Officers and Group Photo 8:45
Being provided for information purposes only, this is not an official IEEE Houston Section event. Please contact Sue Pritchett (281) 451-6522 for additional details.