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Engineer's Forum Contest!

We want to hear about your craziest engineer disaster! Send us a story, comic, flowchart, or whatever best communicates your experience. The winner will have their entry published and will win $25! All entries due before Winter break 2009. Submit to: forum@vt.edu or click here to submit

The Engineer's Forum

The Engineers’ Forum is a quarterly magazine published by an interdisciplinary team of students. This roughly 25 page magazine is student-produced in its entirety: student-written, student-photographed and student-designed. The magazine consists of technical articles and updates relating to engineering, particularly at VPI.

The magazine is distributed free of charge around campus - our main audience is engineering students, while faculty, staff and parents are our secondary audiences. The Engineers’ Forum has been in continuous publication since 1981; prior to that time it was known as the Virginia Tech Engineer, whose first publication was in the 1930’s. With roughly 2000 copies distributed quarterly throughout the academic year, we are proud to reach nearly 6,000 Hokie readers – now, hopefully, 6001!

Working Together!

The Forum is open to anyone of any degree. There are openings available for you! Drop us an e-mail with your interests. Whether you would like to show off your skills or gain experience and learn, there are various opportunities. No matter what your major is, we have a place for you!

Writers: The backbone of the magazine, writing is a great way to explore exciting topics while gaining the experience of having your work published.

Layout/Design: After the articles are submitted, the Layout and Design team puts together the magazine in Adobe InDesign. An eye for design, a fondness for photoshop and patience are helpful in completing this task (these can be learned).

Graphics/Art: You can create images or modify photos for stories, present any layout ideas, or help decorate the website.

Photography: Coordinate with writers to take pictures for stories or for the photo spread feature.

Webmasters: Maintaining/improving the website entails the creation of the interactive .pdf files, uploading the new issues to the website, updating the news posts, and making sure that everything runs smoothly.

Business Manager/Advertising Liaison: Like a treasurer, only better! Coordination between advertisers, printers and the staff is required on all financial matters. In addition, the business team maintains our relationships with our local advertisers.

Copy Editor: Thank goodness for copy editors, who ensure that the magazine is coherent.