City of Statesville: National Engineers Week 2024

Engineers Week (from left to right) John Kiger (Electric Engineer), Cody Leis (Interim Electric Utilities Director), Bill Vaughan (Public Utilities Director), Scott Harrell (Assistant City Manager), Costi Kutteh (Mayor), Mark Taylor (Public Works Director)

City of Statesville

North Carolina

Office of the Mayor

Proclamation

National Engineers Week February 18-24, 2024

WHEREAS, Engineers use their scientific skills and specialized knowledge and skills in creative and innovative ways to fulfill society's needs; and

WHEREAS, Engineers face the major technological challenges of our time - from rebuilding towns devastated by natural disaster, cleaning up the environment, and assuring safe, clean, and efficient sources of energy, to designing information systems that will speed our country into the future; and

WHEREAS, Engineers are encouraging our young math and science students to realize the practical power of their knowledge; and

WHEREAS,  we will look more than ever to Engineers and their knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century; and

WHEREAS, founded in 1951, National Energy Week is dedicated to ensuring a diverse and well-educated future engineering workforce by increasing understanding of, and interest in, engineering and technology careers; and

NOW THEREFORE, I, Constantine H. Kutteh, Mayor of the City of Statesville do hereby proclaim February 18-24, 2024 as NATIONAL ENGINEERS WEEK in the City of Statesville and urge citizens to join me in recognizing the important contributions of engineers to our daily lives. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have set my Hand and caused the Great Seal of the City of Statesville to be affixed this 19th day of February 2024.

Constantine H. Kutteh, Mayor