QCESC

48th Annual National Engineers Week Banquet

Note:  No payment is necessary to register on-line.  See registration form for payment mailing address.

If you need further assistance in registering, either send an e-mail to banquet@qcesc.org or call Pat Barnes @ 309-765-3629.

Notes:
1.  Each visitor must present a current, valid photo ID to enter Arsenal Island. Non-US Citizens will need to fill out and submit an application prior to the banquet.
2.  To get to Arsenal Island, you must either use the government bridge from Davenport (After 5:30 PM) or enter from Rock Island. The Moline bridge is scheduled to be closed for construction.
3.  Free parking is available across from the Arsenal Club to the West and North.

Congressman Phil Hare is serving his second term in Congress replacing Lane Evans. Cong. Hare is a member of the STEM Education Caucus and a member of the House Education and Labor Committee. Previously, he served for 24 years as former Cong. Evans District Director.

Cong. Hare was born in Galesburg, Illinois. He graduated from Alleman High School in Rock Island, IL and attended Blackhawk College in Moline, IL. He served six years in the U.S. Army Reserves and currently serves on the Education and Labor and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees.
 

Jeff earned a doctorate in Science Education with an emphasis in ecology and endocrinology at the University of Iowa in 1998 after teaching high school biology and chemistry for eleven years.  Ciba-Geigy named Jeff a 1993 Life Science Teacher of the year for Iowa, Pella Corporation honored Jeff with the Focus on Teaching Excellence award in 1994, and in 1995 Genentech awarded Jeff one of fifty "Access Excellence Fellowships" from across the U.S.A.  As a university faculty member, first at Oklahoma State University from 1998 to 2000 and then at UNI from 2000 to 2008, Jeff has conducted research around barriers to the adoption of innovative science teaching approaches at the high school and collegiate level, and how to overcome them. Jeff has authored more than fifty research articles, essays, and book chapters, along with the textbook The Game of Science Education published in 2004. He is past President of the Iowa Science Teachers and of UNI’s chapter of Sigma Xi — the scientific research society. In 2007, Jeff was recognized as the Four-Year College Biology Teacher of the Year by the National Association of Biology Teachers. He has directed the Iowa Math and Science Education Partnership since July 1, 2008.
  

Edward has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Bradley University (1980), a Masters of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering (1983) from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington (2000).

Edward is married to Claire and they have two children, Madison 11, and Connor 8.