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At the Chicagoland Engineering Awards Benefit , the Chicagoland Engineers Week Committee and members of over 30 engineering societies will present the Washington Award to Bill Nye the Science Guy. Bill Nye, scientist, engineer, comedian, author, and inventor, is a man with a mission: to help foster a scientifically literate society, to help people everywhere understand and appreciate the science that makes our world work. Making science entertaining and accessible is something Bill has been doing most of his life. Awards will also be presented to student top achievers in a variety of math and science programs thirfty car rental houston texas and competitions. 5:30 pm, February thirfty car rental houston texas 21 at The Palmer House Hilton, 17 E. Monroe St., Chicago. Cost is $100.
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Feb. 1: Chicago Center for Green Technology: Sustainable Urban Infrastructure Guide. 10 am - noon at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd., Chicago. The Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) formally released Chicago’s new Sustainable Urban Infrastructure thirfty car rental houston texas Guidelines in October of 2013, which established a citywide approach for integrating environmental performance goals into infrastructure design, as well as a five-year implementation plan for all CDOT projects. Gerardo Garcia of CDOT provides an overview of the Guidelines as well as what is coming up next. Free.
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Feb. 3: Society of Automotive Engineers Rockford-Beloit: Origin of Mobility - First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic. 5 pm at Thunder Bay Restaurant, 7652 Potawatomi Trail, Rockford. $20 for members; $22 for nonmembers; $18 for students and retirees.
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Feb. 6: Fox Valley Operator s Association: Biomonitoring Lab Discussion. 10 am - 2 pm at the North Shore Sanitary District, William Koepsel Dr., Gurnee. Regulatory requirements along with testing methods will be discussed.
Feb. 6 - 7: American Society of Civil Engineers Illinois and Environmental Water Resources Institute Chicago: Low Impact Development Modeling Using EPA-SWMM thirfty car rental houston texas Course. At the Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento Blvd., Chicago. This workshop is intended for engineers, thirfty car rental houston texas planners, scientists, and technicians who are interested in innovative stormwater management planning, analysis or design.
Feb. 7: American Society for Quality Illiana: Sustaining Results Quality Conference. 8 am - 4 pm at Prairie State College, 202 S. Halsted St., Chicago Heights. $25 with preregistration; $30 on the day of the conference.
Feb. 7: Fermilab Lecture Series: What Do Scientists Know About the Big Bang? 8 pm at Fermilab, Ramsey Auditorium, Wilson Hall, Batavia. This talk will discuss what we have know about the Big Bang and how we learned it. We will also talk about the new questions we are asking about the origin of the universe and the experiments being pursued to answer them. Cost is $7.
Feb. 7: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center: Protecting Illinois Environment through Policy thirfty car rental houston texas and Advocacy. Noon - 1 pm at ISTC, SJW Conference Room, 1 E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign and online. Jennifer Walling, Executive Director of the Illinois Environmental Council will give inside stories from IEC s work in Springfield and explain what it takes to pass good policy and what obstacles stand in the way.
Feb. 7: Structural Engineers Association of Illinois Central Chapter: Seismic Design of Buildings. 8 am - 5 pm at Doubletree by Hilton, 10 Brickyard Dr., Bloomington. This seminar covers seismic design approaches, current building code theory, design principles for sproviding seismic thirfty car rental houston texas resistance in structures, and more. $250 for members; $375 for nonmembers.
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Feb. 9: Fermilab: Family Open House. 1 - 5 pm at Fermilab, Batavia. This is a party for children who bring an adult with them to learn about the world of physics. Free. Registration only required for tours.
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Feb. 11: Association of Licensed Architects: Architectural Inspections Using Industrial Rope Access Techniques. 5:30 - 8:30 pm at The Glen Club, 2901 W. Lake Ave., Glenview. $45 for members; $55 for nonmembers.
Feb. 11: Chicago thirfty car rental houston texas Center for Green Technology: Kicking Asphalt to the Curb. 6 - 8 pm at 445 N. Sacramento Blvd., Chicago. Jay Womack of WRD Environmental looks at the Woodridge School District 68 Green Campus Initiative focusing on Best Management Practices that have been installed, the benefits on water quality, the impact the projects have had in the community and on education, the effect on operations and maintenance costs, and the different funding vehicles used to make the projects a reality. Free.
Feb. 12: Illinois Society of Professional Engineers North Suburban: Cryogenics and High Energy Physics. 6 - 9 pm at Giuseppe s LaCantina, 1062 Lee St., DesPlaines. thirfty car rental houston texas $20 for members; $25 for nonmembers.
Feb. 12: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Chicago Power and Energy Society: Net Zero Energy Buildings. 11:30 am - 1 pm at Sargent Lundy, 24th Floor Conference Room, 55 E. Monroe St., Chicago. The Masdar Headquarters building in Abu Dhabi, UAE was a 1.5 million square foot, 7 story office building planned to be built as a net zero energy building. Net zero energy was achieved by first designing the building to be extremely energy efficient. Renewable energy sources were investigated that could generate energy, on an annual basis, equal to or greater than the building s usage. Register by Feb. 10.
Feb. 13: American Chemical Society Illinois-Iowa: In Search of Mr. Spock s Tricorder: Applications and advances in Plant Analytical Chemistry in the 21st Century. 6:30 pm at Kent Nutrition Group Training Center, 1600 Oregon Training Center, Muscatine, IA. Cost is $12; $8 for students.
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Feb. 14: Illinois Sustainable Technology Center: The Realities of Energy in Illinois and Beyond: It s Much More Interesting Than You Think. Noon - 1 pm at ISTC, SJW Conference Room, 1 E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign and online. Tom Wolf, the executive director of the Illinois Chamber of Commerce Energy Council will give a high-level overview of energy issues in Illinois in an effort to ensure policy decisions are based on realty and not fantasy.
Feb. 15: Illinois Computing Educators Chicago ICE-CAP: Mini Conference: Falling Love with EdTech. thirfty car rental houston texas 8:30 am - 12:30 pm at the National Teachers Academy, 55 W. Cermak Road, Chicago. thirfty car rental houston texas $5 for members; $10 for nonmembers.
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Feb. 18: U.S. Green Building Council Rockford: Everything you wanted to know about Fuel Cell Technology. 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Radisson Hotel, Rockford. $10 for members and students; $20 for nonmembers and members without preregistration.
Feb. 18 - 19: American Concrete Institute Illinois: Concrete Strength Testing Technician Certification. 8 am - 5 pm at 61 Garlisch Dr., Elk Grove Village. This certification is for personnel involved in laboratory thirfty car rental houston texas testing for determination of compressive and flexural strength of concrete. Cost is $625; $425 for recertification.
Feb. 19: Illinois Environmental Council: Central Illinois Composting Symposium. 8:30 am - 3 pm at Lincoln Land