HP Sponsors Student Web site Design Contest

By COE eNews Archives
Spring 1998

Palo Alto, California -- Hewlett-Packard Company today announces it is sponsoring a contest inviting engineering students to share their most creative ideas for a new HP education Web site. Five contest winners in the United States will win an all-expenses-paid week in Colorado and an opportunity to serve on the HP Student Advisory Council to help design HP's first Web site for engineering students.

The contest winners will tour HP facilities in Colorado and participate in local outdoor activities, such as white-water rafting, hiking and horseback riding. Students will be compensated for their Web site design work, and HP will pay all expenses for contest winners. The council is scheduled to meet at the HP facility in Loveland, Colo., from Aug. 8 to 14 to share insights about engineering, engineering students and critical elements for a student engineering Web site.

The contest is open to full-time sophomores and juniors enrolled in four-year, accredited engineering programs in the United States. Participants must write two paragraphs, each of 100 words or fewer. The first paragraph should describe the one thing that should be included on a student engineering Web site and why. The second paragraph should describe why the student believes he or she would make a good member of the HP Student Advisory Council. For more information and to submit online entries, http://www.hp.com/info/student_web from April 15 through May 31. Also at this site, students may request a free copy of Andrea J. Sutcliffe's book "First-Job Survival Guide". Engineerings graduates may request a free copy of this book between April 15 and Oct. 31, 1998.

Entries will be judged by:

  • Robert Quinn
    A Francis C. Powell Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
    Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA
  • Marsh Faber
    Education Program Manager for HP's Electronic Measurements Division
  • Glenn Alsup
    President of Viewmark Inc.

Employees of HP and Viewmark and their immediate families are not eligible to participate in this contest.