Text Box: Awards for Outstanding
Engineering Achievement
 
The Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers (PSPE) solicits your help in seeking nominations for projects for the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Awards Program held at the PSPE Philadelphia Chapter Meeting on Thursday, December 6, 2007.  Award winners will receive special recognition during the observation of National Engineer's Week in the Delaware Valley from Friday, February 15 through Saturday, February 23, 2008.  Nominations are due November 16, 2007.
The Outstanding Engineering Achievement Awards Program strives to recognize projects, regardless of engineering discipline, that demonstrate engineering challenges and innovative solutions, communicate the importance of the Engineering Profession to society, and provide a clear and tangible benefit to the Delaware Valley Region.  This year’s program will follow this same principle, in that the Outstanding Award will be presented to one project that best meets these criteria as determined by our panel of judges, typically comprised of the presidents of the five chapters in the southeast region of Pennsylvania.    PSPE Philadelphia invites applications from all engineering disciplines as it is our goal to recognize the importance of all engineering disciplines in the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Awards Program.
Nominated projects will be short-listed and presentations will be held on Thursday, December 6, 2007 at the PSPE Philadelphia Chapter Meeting to be held at the McCall Golf & Country Club in Upper Darby (directions click here.)  Enclosed are guidelines outlining the requirements for project nominations and presentations.
The Delaware Valley Engineer’s Week Council and the Philadelphia Business Journal are preparing a supplement to be included in the weekly edition of the Journal circulated on February 14, 2008.  The Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award winner, and runner-up winners will be featured in the Supplement.
Your assistance in this search is greatly appreciated and will result in a diversified field from which the judges can make their selection.  Please call OEA Chair Fredric L. Plotnick, PE at (215) 885-3733 or send email to fplotnick@fplotnick.com if you have any questions or comments.
 
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3. Qualifying applications will be forwarded to the State PSPE Scholarship Committee for further consideration for scholarships currently being solicited by that Committee.
4. Up to two $500 cash awards will be made by the Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers, and the top applicant competes for an additional $1000 from the Engineers Week Committee for the Delaware Valley.
An application form may be downloaded from 
 http://www.pspe.org/philly/philly.htm 
For further information contact Scholarship Chair Fredric L. Plotnick, PE at (215) 885-3733 or send email to 
fplotnick@fplotnick.com if you have any questions or comments.

Text Box: Awards for Outstanding
Math / Science Teachers
 
Do you know of an outstanding Science or Math Teacher currently teaching in grades 5 through 12 in Philadelphia schools?  
The Philadelphia Chapter of the Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers is currently soliciting nominations for the selection of Outstanding Science and Math Teachers for 2007 from within the City of Philadelphia. The winners will be acknowledged by the Philadelphia Chapter at its annual Awards Night in May 2008.  Additionally, the Philadelphia winners will be entered into the competition to select the Outstanding Science and Math Teachers for the Delaware Valley as part of the Delaware Valley Engineers Week celebration.  Teachers selected as either the Outstanding Science Teacher or the Outstanding Math Teacher for the Delaware Valley will be acknowledged at the Engineers’ Week Banquet in February of 2008.
As engineers, we understand and respect the challenges facing Teachers today.  We feel that that just as students respond to positive encouragement, teachers need to be recognized for the great job they do.  Completed nominating forms must be received prior to December 31, 2007, to be eligible for consideration. Please note that nominated teachers must be currently teaching in their respective disciplines in any of the grades 5 through 12.
Please help us to spread the word about this award.  You may download the teachers’ award nomination forms at 
 http://www.pspe.org/philly/math_teacher0708.htm.  Please feel free to post the nomination forms in your Philadelphia school, or provide them to your school principals.
Or contact Jason Schmoyer, PE, Chair, Outstanding Teachers Award Committee at schmoyer19128@yahoo.com or call 
484-995-1619
 
 
PSPE Scholarships
The Philadelphia Chapter of PSPE (Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers) operates a scholarship program open to high school students who either (1) live in or (2) attend high school in the City of Philadelphia.  Other Chapters of PSPE may also have scholarship programs geared to students in other counties.  Applications for the Philadelphia Chapter program are routinely sent to and may be obtained from your high school guidance department.  Inquiry for additional applications must be made by the guidance department to PSPE Philadelphia at 215-985-5701.  
Applicants will be competing for:
1. Drexel University is providing two five-year scholarships of $5000 per year to be awarded to outstanding candidates by the Philadelphia PSPE scholarship committee. Please check "DREXEL SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANT" on the application form to be considered for this scholarship.
2. Temple University is providing a four year scholarship of $2000 per year to be awarded to an outstanding candidate by the Philadelphia PSPE scholarship committee. Please check "TEMPLE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANT" on the application form to be considered for this scholarship.

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