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May
24, 2003, 16S:
Special Commencement Issue
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Bechtel
Achievement Award: Ankur
Luthra , EECS
Bechtel
Engineering Scholarship:
Jengyee Liang, IEOR
Departmental
Citation Winners:
Nathan Huebsch, BioE
Mark Wan, CEE
Peter Chen, EECS
Kenny Kamrin, Eng. Science
Marc Oman, IEOR
Melissa Santala, MSE
Siddharth Patel, ME
Brian Quiter, NE
Other
Departmental Awards
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Bechtel Engineering
Scholarhip : Jengyee Liang
Sophomore Jengyee Liang has
done more at Cal in just two years than most people can squeeze into their
entire college career.
A born leader and a master at juggling her cramped schedule, Jengyee finds
the time not only to be an active member of a mind-boggling number of
organizations, but she also holds officer positions in most of them.
“If you are an officer, it forces you to become involved,” she
explains.
During her sophomore year Jengyee was a senator in the Associated Students
of the University of California student government, vice president of
the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) student chapter, corporate
liaison for the IEOR honor society Alpha Pi Mu, member of the student
services committee for the Engineering Alumni Society Board, and newsletter
chair for the Golden Key honor society.
She is also a member of the Society of Women Engineers, but to be an officer
in yet another organization would require sleep deprivation, and Jengyee
likes her rest.
“I’ve never been one of those people who only needs a couple
of hours of sleep,” she laughs.
Jengyee did, however, lose sleep the day she was elected president of
IIE, was notified that she received the Bechtel scholarship, and won a
digital camera in a career center raffle.
“It was just too much excitement for one day,” she says.
Jengyee is following in the footsteps of her father, who got his master’s
in IEOR from Berkeley 25 years ago.
While she did well in both math and science in high school, Jengyee says
she never liked science very much and still doesn’t care for it.
She does, however, enjoy math and picked IEOR because it was the most
math-based engineering major.
After she graduates, she is considering getting her MBA but is also thinking
about a degree in public policy and a career in government dedicated to
positively affecting environmental policy.
Her passion for the environment is the only thing that drives Jengyee
toward a political career. Her senatorial experience and personality have
shown her that she might not be a good match for the slow and unwieldy
political arena.
“I really dislike the drama, inefficiency, and bureaucracy of government,”
she says.
There is little room for inefficiency in Jengyee’s life. To balance
her activities with a full course load she has become a master at prioritizing.
None of her many involvements are token resume builders; Jengyee is truly
invested in everything she does.
“Jengyee is the best kind of student to have in a class. She is enthusiastic,
fully engaged and bursting with questions. She is very intelligent and
active and continuously working on making things better for all around
her,” says IEOR professor Dorit Hochbaum.
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