Jon Peltier's PTS Blog is holding a contest to "highlight scientific and engineering applications of Microsoft Excel, by sharing models that users have built."

"The intent is to highlight scientific and engineering applications of Microsoft Excel, by sharing models that users have built."

"The contest winner will receive a copy of Excel MVP Bernard Liengme’s Guide to Microsoft Excel 2002 for Scientists and Engineers. This is the Excel 2002 edition of the book. The Excel 2007 edition will not be out until this fall, but any lessons learned in the Excel 2002 version will be applicable to Excel 2007, though some of the specific commands may have changed."

As a sidenote, when I entered college I wanted to be an engineer. Everything was going great until I hit the second Chemistry and specifically calculations for molarity and molality. For some reason I just couldn't get it. Eventually I went to the professor and asked to drop the class (at that time you had to have the professor sign the drop slip before you could get out.) After an hour of stern lecturing by the professor because, in his view, I wasn't studying enough, he finally signed the slip. Sadly, that was the end of my engineering career. Now I do financial analysis all day long but I still wonder after 20 years how things might have been different. Oh well.

Jon's contest is an excellent opportunity to share best practices. Please participate if you can.