National Engineers Week 2011

[#1]

I almost forgot this is the 60th anniversary of National Engineers week.

“Engineers use their imagination and analytical skills to invent, design, and build things that matter. They are team players with independent minds who turn ideas into reality. By dreaming up creative and practical solutions, engineers are changing the world all the time.

Engineering has been called the “invisible” or “stealth” profession. Everything around us and that we use every day has been engineered in some way yet we may not see the engineers behind the scenes or know much about engineering. Engineering is not part of our grade school education.”

This is the week where the role and capabilities of engineers are celebrated. The activities to support STEM education are recognized and ways for the public (and especially students)  to discover engineering identified.

[#2]

interested in the quantum cryptography

i should think that if lasers can be split and recombined to excite a very small amount of metalic salt based plasma it should generate some type of microwaves, a plasma magnatron if you will. radio waves travel fiberoptics require less bandwidth. think this will help out with optics less heat.  but the experiments i found were done in the 40s so good luck with that?