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The article focuses on the fourth annual Design News Engineering Achievement Awards in Chicago. Terry McGovern Haber of California accepted the award for his numerous medical designs. Haber invented a popular safe syringe that prevents nurses and technicians from contracting hepatitis and AIDS from accidental needle. Benjamin A. Cosgrove, senior vice president at Boeing Co., won the special achievement award for his contribution to airline safety, throughout his career. Students Katherine Szudy and Brad Bolerjack received awards for designs that gave them national and international recognition in young- inventor contests.

The article presents a contest regarding innovative work design of engineers. Awards will be based on ingenuity of design, effective use of design components and materials, and usefulness and essence of the product. The top five grand finalists will travel in Chicago to get the Excellence in Design medallion award. According to the author, this contest is held in order to acknowledge and honor the engineers for their design.

Comments on the 2004 Engineer of the Year Award organized by the periodical "Design News." Past winners; Roster of candidates for the year; Areas of specialization of the candidates.

Reports that a belt heater designed by G. Raymond Langland for protecting electrical and mechanical connections in cars won the Aluminum Association's International Aluminum Extrusion Design Competition in 1992. Langland's work as senior engineer at Raychem Corp. in Menlo Park, California.; Use of shrinkable tubing to seal and insulate.

The article presents invitation to engineers who want to joint for Engineering Quality Award. To register, engineers must answer the questions completely, and send along enough prints, drawings, photographs, or other materials to help the judges fully understand the design problem and how the participant went through the solution. It must include appropriate supporting evidence to be considered for the Engineering Quality Award.