Featured Students

Arielle Ampeh, a sophomore in Mechanical Engineering, was selected as a delegate to the National 4-H Congress and the next year was chosen as the first Virginian to serve as a youth member of the National 4-H Congress Design. This group plans and manages the National 4-H Congress attended by…

Patrick Brew, a senior in the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate/Graduate Accelerated Masters program from Short Pump, Virginia, has been involved in CEED since his freshman year when he was a member of the Galileo Living Learning community as a Dean’s Scholarship recipient. Brew was a strong…

Allison Collier, a computer science major, has been involved with CEED from the beginning of her academic career as a freshman participant in the Hypatia Living Learning Community, then as a communications committee member her sophomore year. She currently serves as a member of the InVenTs…

Rebeca Dominguez, an industrial and systems engineering major, has been obsessed with Disney engineering since before she even knew basic math. Spending part of her childhood in close proximity to Disney World sparked her thought process on how things work. Eventually this brought her to…

Minzhen Du, a maker, amateur photographer, designer, hobbyist, and more recently, a junior in Aerospace Engineering. Minzhen came from Guangzhou, China, a small town of just over 10 million population, growing up in an international, multi-culture city drove him to make the decision of studying…

William E. Gerhard III, a senior in Electrical Engineering from Woodbridge, Virginia, has been involved with CEED since his freshman year at Virginia Tech when he was a member of the Galileo Living Learning Community. William served as a member of the Service Learning Committee as a sophomore…

Tiffany Javid is a junior in Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech. She graduated from Westfield High School in Northern Virginia in 2014, and plans to graduate with her B.S. in Civil Engineering in spring 2018. Throughout her early years in preschool and progressing into elementary school…