An Engineer's Blueprint for Writing

Harris Group engineer and novelist Nick Arvin on what his experience in engineering has taught him about the literary world. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230381540457733412420300001...

Harris Group WPPF Wall of Fame Recipient

The Washington Pulp and Paper Foundation (WPPF) Executive Committee has unanimously voted Bob Harris Founder and Chairman of the Board of Harris Group Inc. as the Wall of Fame recipient for the 43rd WPPF annual meeting. Bob Harris and Harris Group has been a gold WPPF member for over a decade in support of higher education for the future of the paper industry and its allied industries.

The WPPF, a non-profit organization, exist to attract excellent students to the University of Washington’s Bioresource Science and Engineering (BSE) program, providing the industry and its allied industries with a pipeline of highly qualified technical graduates who understand and are dedicated to the industry. For more information about the WPPF please visit their website at http://depts.washington.edu/wppf/index.htm.

Engineering News-Record "Algae Plant Goes Modular to Keep Down Cost"

Harris Group’s Doug Dudgeon, Vice President, Process Industries, contributes expertise to Engineering News-Record article Algae Fuel Plant Goes Modular To Keep Down Start-up Costs, click on the following link to read the full article http://enr.construction.com/infrastructure/power_industrial/2012/0319-65....

Harris Group Inc. Named One of the "Healthiest Companies in America"

This month, Harris Group joined the elite ranks of “Healthiest Companies in America” according to Interactive Health Solutions, Inc. (IHS), a provider of performance‐based employee health management programs. For more information please click on the PDF below.

Meet Nick Arvin -- Engineer and Novelist

“A young man reconstructs auto accidents, dissecting the details, discerning the chronological cause-and-effect elements leading up to the event that changed so many lives. But beyond the mechanics of his investigation, he learns the limitations of his analytical skills with managing matters of the heart, the gravitational pull of past events, and their consequences on present-day decisions and relationships. It also involves illicit love, Legos, wild pigs, and a lot of car crashes.”

Nick Arvin is describing his new novel, titled The Reconstructionist, released March 15, 2012, this is his third published book — he is also the author of In the Electric Eden: Stories, and Articles of War, a novel named one of the Books of the Year by Esquire magazine. Nick’s award-winning work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Rocky Mountain News.

AND, he is a mechanical engineer in Harris Group’s Denver office.

The Reconstructionist, has been well received by the literary community with some very nice things having been said about it…

Amazon (a best book of the month pick): "You wouldn't think that earning a pair of mechanical engineering degrees would lend itself to fine literature, but Nick Arvin is an exception: His thoughtful, offbeat, original sophomore novel, The Reconstructionist, has a caliber as unexpected as its author's. Antihero Ellis Barstow, whose half brother Christopher died young in a car crash, makes his living by conducting auto accident postmortems. He also loves his boss's wife, who -- not coincidentally -- was Christopher's high school girlfriend. It sounds complicated, but in the end all these likably flawed people are just trying to answer the same two questions: What happened? And whose fault was it?"

Publishers Weekly: "Arvin's impressive second novel...is suffused with sharp turns and minute, telling details that add up to a riveting consideration of risk and responsibility."

David Wroblewski, author of The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: "The Reconstructionist becomes a contemplation of the broadest questions of life: How do we love one another? How do we survive the accidents of our lives? Or is it fate? Nick Arvin is an immensely gifted writer, and he has given us a thrilling, soulful book."

Join Nick Tuesday, May 8th, at 7:30PM at the Boulder Book Store, located at 1107 Pearl Street, as he speaks about and signs his new book, The Reconstructionist.

You can find The Reconstructionist in bookstores or on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Reconstructionist-Novel-P-S-Nick-Arvin/dp/0061995169