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Contact: Chris McManes Voices of Innovation to Promote Engineering Awareness WASHINGTON (21 November 2001) — If you are or know of an engineer whose work can help bring a new understanding and awareness of engineering to the public, your story can be told via Voices of Innovation. Developed by the American Association of Engineering Societies, of which the IEEE is a founding member, Voices of Innovation will be a daily radio series of 2-minute radio spots featuring engineers talking about their innovations, careers and work. Each day the program will tell how engineering contributes to the overall well-being of society. Voices of Innovation allows engineers to tell their own stories and speak with personal passion about their professions and how engineering affects everyday life. A pre-launch demo CD has been produced featuring engineers talking about artificial hands, earthquake engineering and the world's fastest plane. Voices of Innovation is slated to begin on 1 April 2002 and run through 31 March 2003. It is made possible by a generous grant from the United Engineering Foundation and is being produced by Jim Metzner, the radio personality behind the widely successful program Pulse of the Planet. Several major-market radio stations have expressed interest in carrying the series. For more information on this exciting new concept and to submit your story idea, go to http://www.voicesofinnovation.org. You may also contact David Gately, AAES director, communications and public awareness, at + 1 202 296 2297 or dgately@aaes.org. IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE created in 1973 to promote the careers and public-policy interests of the more than 230,000 electrical, electronics, computer and software engineers who are U.S. members of the IEEE. The IEEE is the world's largest technical professional society. For more information, visit us online at http://www.ieeeusa.org. The AAES is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to advancing the knowledge, understanding, and practice of engineering in the public interest. Its members represent the mainstream of U.S. engineering — affecting over 1 million engineers in industry, government and education. For more information, go to http://www.aaes.org. The Institute
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