{"id":119663,"date":"2022-02-25T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=119663"},"modified":"2022-02-25T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T14:04:12","slug":"engineering-a-good-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/02\/25\/engineering-a-good-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering a good time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hundreds of Wright State University engineering students took a break and had some fun during an engineering carnival in the Russ Engineering Center lobby on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The carnival was part of Engineers Week, a week-long celebration of engineering and technology that featured potential job and internship opportunities for students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/engineering-computer-science.wright.edu\/\">College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis is a time for us to celebrate all of our engineers,\u201d said Dani Heeter, director of academic services in the College of Engineering and Computer Science.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Students participated in games, entered a contest to win raffle prizes and enjoyed snacks. Wright State\u2019s Office of Marketing provided professional headshots for student\u2019s LinkedIn profiles. Ball Aerospace sponsored the carnival and provided a $100 Wright State Bookstore gift card as one of the many raffle prizes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThis is an opportunity to reward those students for all of their hard work throughout the semester,\u201d said Heeter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers in 1951, Engineers Week is aimed at ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of Wright State engineering students took a break and had some fun during an engineering carnival. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2022\/02\/25\/engineering-a-good-time\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":119667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,729,743,725,727,715,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-around-campus","category-engineering-computer-science","category-home-news-sidebar","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-news","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119663"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119677,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119663\/revisions\/119677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}