[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 552 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 552

      Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 16, 2012

  Mr. Lipinski (for himself, Mr. Manzullo, Ms. Sutton, Mr. Holt, Mr. 
 Reyes, Ms. Bordallo, Mr. Hinojosa, Ms. Zoe Lofgren of California, Mr. 
 McNerney, Mr. Barton of Texas, Mr. Payne, Mr. Tonko, Mr. Rohrabacher, 
 Ms. Richardson, Mr. Honda, Mr. Calvert, Mr. McCaul, Ms. Eddie Bernice 
   Johnson of Texas, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Carnahan, Mr. Miller of North 
Carolina, Mrs. Christensen, Mr. McKinley, and Ms. Hirono) submitted the 
 following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Science, 
                         Space, and Technology

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                               RESOLUTION


 
      Supporting the goals and ideals of National Engineers Week.

Whereas engineers employ their scientific knowledge and analytical skills for 
        the betterment of the United States;
Whereas the mission of the National Engineers Week Foundation is to sustain and 
        grow a dynamic engineering profession through outreach, education, 
        celebration, and volunteerism as needed to keep the United States a 
        global leader in engineering and engineering education;
Whereas the sponsors of National Engineers Week are working together to 
        transform the engineering workforce through greater inclusion of women 
        and underrepresented minorities;
Whereas engineers have helped meet the major global challenges of our time, 
        including providing state-of-the-art transportation and information 
        technology infrastructures, enhancing national security, and developing 
        the clean energy technologies needed to power the people of the United 
        States into the future;
Whereas engineers are a crucial link in research, development, and the 
        transformation of scientific discoveries into useful products and jobs, 
        as the people of the United States look more than ever to engineers and 
        their imagination, knowledge, and analytical skills to meet the 
        challenges of the future;
Whereas the National Science Board's ``Science and Engineering Indicators 2012'' 
        shows that the number of students obtaining engineering degrees in the 
        United States has reached an all-time high, but the total number and 
        rate of growth in engineering degrees trails that of China;
Whereas a 2012 survey by the Intel Corporation indicates that United States 
        teenagers are more likely to consider a degree in engineering after 
        learning about what engineers do;
Whereas the 2010 National Academies report entitled ``Rising Above The Gathering 
        Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5'' emphasizes that a 
        primary driver of the future economy and the creation of jobs will be 
        innovations derived from advances in science and engineering, and states 
        that ``while only four percent of the nation's work force is composed of 
        scientists and engineers, this group disproportionately creates jobs for 
        the other 96 percent.'';
Whereas National Engineers Week has grown into a formal coalition of more than 
        100 professional societies, major corporations, and government agencies 
        that are dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated engineering 
        workforce, promoting literacy in science, technology, engineering, and 
        math, and raising public awareness and appreciation of the contributions 
        of engineers to society;
Whereas National Engineers Week is celebrated during the week of George 
        Washington's birthday to honor the contributions that our first 
        President, a military engineer and land surveyor, made to engineering; 
        and
Whereas February 19, 2012, to February 25, 2012, has been designated as National 
        Engineers Week by the National Engineers Week Foundation and the theme 
        is ``7 Billion People, 7 Billion Dreams, 7 Billion Chances for engineers 
        to turn dreams into reality'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the goals and ideals of National Engineers 
        Week to increase understanding of and interest in engineering 
        and technology careers and to promote technological literacy 
        and engineering education; and
            (2) continues to work with the engineering community to 
        ensure that the creativity and contributions made by engineers 
        can be expressed through research, development, 
        standardization, and innovation.
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