The Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) is celebrating National Engineers Week from Feb. 16-22, 2025.
Founded by the National Society of Professional Engineers (NPSE), Engineers Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated engineering workforce. NPSE plans to do so by increasing understanding of and interest in engineering and technology careers.
Engineers Week is a formal coalition of more than 70 engineering, education and cultural societies, and more than 50 corporations and government agencies.
Dedicated to raising public awareness of engineers’ positive contributions to quality of life, Engineers Week promotes recognition among parents, teachers, and students of the importance of a technical education and a high level of math, science, and technology literacy, and motivates youth, to pursue engineering careers in order to provide a diverse and vigorous engineering workforce.
The 2025 Engineers Week theme is “Design Your Future,” which serves as both a call to action and a celebration of the limitless possibilities in engineering. It invites us to dream boldly, innovate relentlessly and created a future shaped by our collective ingenuity.
This week, ALDOT looks to celebrate how engineers make a difference in our world, increase public dialogue about the need for engineers and bring engineering to life for kids, educators and parents.
On Monday, Feb. 17, ALDOT will host an Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day alongside the American Society of Civil Engineers – Mobile Branch and local industry professionals. Held at the Exploreum Science Center in Mobile, 75-100 high school students from the area will learn about possible career possibilities in engineering.
