Society’s feeling about engineers and scientists is as cyclical as a sine wave. Sometimes our abiity to recite PI to 30 digits is respected, sometimes the government tries to shut us up (Indina PI Bill).

In 2009, the engineer is in voque again.  I mean, is there a better show on TV right now than “Big Bang Theory”?  And what is the best movie?  Star Trek of course (I hope the pendulum doesn’t start swinging back later this year when people figure out we also created Skynet).

You see others tapping into this too. Texas Instruments has some nice videos reminding us to “Thank an Engineer”. Here is one on life without an MP3 player:

And I do the the “V-Dub in the House” comercials from Volkswagen:

I’ll even give a shout out to one of my company’s competitors:

Funny stuff.

Back in March, I noticed the Dulce Group started tweeting in Huntsville at @dghuntsville.  When I started following them, we exchanges a few DM’s about social media and tweetups.

It seems they have adapted to this twitter thing very quickly since then. The other day I got a tweet  that the Dulce Group was looking into sponsoring a tweetup and then got another tweet today  with the details (I think up-and-coming social media and PR expert @danamlewis might have some involvement too).  It will be at the Ketchup restaurant at Bridge Street in Huntsville.   It is scheduled for May 12th from 5:30pm to 8:30 pm and you will get 20% off your bill if you follow them and have the reply they send you (I’m already following them so I’ll have to ask what you do in this case). 

They are hoping to make this a social event for some interesting human networking although I did ask if they have wifi – they do.  I’ll be the guy trying not to spill his drink on his laptop while tweeting to the person next to me.  (Ok, I’m really not THAT bad )

As usual, you can follow or post any information about the tweetup by using the #HSVTweetup tag in your tweets and searching it for the latest info.

I hope to see you there!  And @dghuntsville, I’d also love to meet the person/people behind the tweets!

P.S. Here is some information on other Dulce Events:

http://app.e2ma.net/campaign/813f4a95669030854ebbc8d186fce56d