Fox Valley: Wheaton expo displays everything engineering

Wheaton expo displays everything engineering
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Daily Herald on 02/28/2011 12:43:00

Airplanes. Bridges. Tractors. Bicycle machines. Even computers, lasers and
robots.

Ask any professional at the DuPage Engineers Week Expo and he or she would know
what connects these objects: Engineering.
The Illinois Institute of Technology’s School of Applied  Technology
presented the 27th annual expo Saturday at the Rice Campus in  Wheaton. The
event aims to interest elementary-aged children in  engineering while they have
time to gain the education necessary to  succeed in the field, said Barbara
Kozi, executive assistant to the dean  of the School of Applied Technology.
“Our hope is that they’ll see things here that make them think ‘Oh,
that’s engineering? That’s interesting,’” Kozi said.
Many of the expo’s more than 40 displays were interactive, including 
bicycles that spun a globe, powered a record player or lit up a device  similar
to a traffic light. Working Bikes, a Chicago nonprofit that  resells and
redistributes donated bicycles, brought the bicycle machines  during its first
appearance at the expo, volunteer Carly Evans said. Read More