Six undergraduate students and two graduate students were recently honored with
student leadership awards from the Cockrell School of Engineering. Biomedical
engineering students Heidi Gensler and Christopher Green, chemical engineering
students Danielle Kamel, Jesus Ramos, and Eugene Stautberg, and electrical engineering student Madhurita Sengupta, all received the Undergraduate Student Leadership Award.
Graduate students Jessica Ventura and Qiu Wu received the Graduate Student
Leadership Awards. Both doctoral candidates, Ventura is a mechanical engineering
student while Wu is an electrical and computer engineering major.
In addition, second-year Andrew Wang, an electrical engineering major, was honored
with the Marvin Wright Engineering Athlete Award for distinguishing himself both
in athletics and in the classroom.
Nominees for each of the leadership awards must have held a leadership position in
an engineering student organization, have positively affected the Cockrell School
of Engineering community, and have dedicated themselves to overcome obstacles and
pursuing their visions. Undergraduates must have at least 24 hours of in-residence
credit while graduate students must have at least 18 hours of in-residence courses.
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About UT's Cockrell School of Engineering:
The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering ranks among the top six public engineering schools in the United States. With the nation's fourth highest number of faculty elected members of the National Academy of Engineering, the School's more than 7,000 students gain exposure to the nation's finest engineering practitioners. Appropriately, the School's logo, an embellished checkmark used by the first UT engineering dean to denote high quality student work, is the nation's oldest quality symbol. The School maintains a Web site at http://www.engr.utexas.edu