However, this year members of the UA chapter of Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers came up with a medallion hunt. To avoid having a random person finding the medallion and taking it before any engineering student could find it, Nick Westfahl, IEEE president, decided to make the event open to everyone on campus. Westfahl, a senior, got the idea from a river festival held in his hometown in Kansas, he said. I want to see how big it gets here, and maybe it would continue to go on every Engine Week. Other events in Engine Week have gone on for several years and are sponsored by different engineering organizations.
All events are competitions for points for the engineering students.
At the end of the week, the group with the most points wins a trophy and a plaque to be put up outside the engineering office, Rehm said. Groups who win first place in an event receive 40 points, second place receives 30 points, third place receives 20 points and fourth place receives 10 points. The trophy will be passed on to winners of future Engine Weeks, Rehm said. Most events will only last a half-hour to an hour, Rehm said, because engineering students have a lot of homework. We don't want to take too long because we don't want to negatively impact anyone's grades because they were having fun.