威尼斯人app下载 faculty and students pose at the New Mexico Society of Professional 工程师E-Week大会颁奖典礼. 2023年，阿尔伯克基. 从左 从右到右分别是. Ashok Ghosh, 詹姆斯·蒙托亚, 萨曼莎Lindholm, Kayleigh卡梅隆， 博士和. 科里勒克莱尔. 

索科罗,N.M. – Three students who have found support and success studying engineering at New Mexico Tech recently received outstanding student awards from the New Mexico Society of Professional 工程师(NMSPE). 专业工程师小组表彰了这些学生 outstanding academic records and contributions to the university and community. 萨曼莎 Lindholm, Kayleigh卡梅隆, and 詹姆斯·蒙托亚 received recognition from the NMSPE Albuquerque Chapter during the chapter’s E-Week Conference awards ceremony Friday, 2月. 24. 

根据科里·勒克莱尔博士的说法.D.威尼斯人app下载工程系院长，三名 students from the three major technical universities in New Mexico are recommended for the outstanding engineer award by faculty members who are also professional engineers. Dr. 勒克莱尔博士和机械工程副教授. Mostafa Hassanalian 和Ashok Ghosh出席了在阿尔伯克基举行的颁奖典礼. 

萨曼莎Lindholm, named Student of the Year, was homeschooled growing up in Albuquerque. 她将 graduate with a 化学工程 degree in May 2023 and plans to pursue a master’s degree at Tech, continuing her current research on photothermally reversible epoxies using Diels-Alder chemistry, conventional epoxies, and synthesis of several other 聚合物.

Lindholm said she also will continue her internship with Sandia National Labs, working 在聚合物开发和表征. 她是美国总统 Institute of Chemical Engineers student chapter, involved in the chapter’s community volunteering and on-campus fundraisers; is an active member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society; and serves on a Student Government Association committee.  

Lindholm said she chose engineering to apply her love for science to problems facing 人类.

“My interest in 聚合物 stems from my desire to help minimize plastic pollution, and 化学工程 was the best way to get close to that issue and make a positive 影响，”她说.

Kayleigh卡梅隆, named Student of the Year Runner-Up, is from Kent, Washington, graduating from Kentlake 2020年的高中. 她将于2023年5月毕业，获得材料工程专业学位 degree with minors in 化学工程 and explosives engineering. 明年秋天卡梅隆 is planning to return to Tech to pursue a master’s degree in 材料工程. 

Cameron plays for both the women's soccer and rugby teams, serves as an officer for Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, and is a member of the Materials Club. 她 worked at an internship last summer at Los Alamos National Labs in detonator production engineering and this summer is planning to be at Sandia National Labs. 她的校园 就业是为博士工作. Chelsey Hargather在材料工程和她的现任 research project is additive manufacturing of an energetic initiator ink.

“I wanted to study engineering because I was always interested in math and science and I wanted to use those interests to help solve real-world problems,” Cameron said.

詹姆斯·蒙托亚, named Second Runner-Up, is from Flora Vista and graduated from Grace Baptist Academy 法明顿的. 大三的他正在学习机械工程，并计划继续深造 Ph值.D. 在航空航天工程中. 蒙托亚在圣达菲为SciVista实习 is involved in creating virtual reality modules for teaching calculus. 

Montoya has been involved in robotics research projects for and was the co-lead of Dr. Hassanalian的2021-2022年NASA思维团队. 这项研究产生了 一个多晶机器人. 他还在一家美国研究所介绍了这项研究 航空航天(AIAA)科学技术会议. 蒙托亚参与了 a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-funded project to create a hybrid unmanned ground vehicle/unmanned 用于矿井紧急情况的飞行器(UGV/UAV)系统. 对于这个项目，他 is developing a virtual reality training module, and does work with mechatronics for UGV的无人机部署系统. 

Montoya is president of the AIAA Student Branch Club and president of the Society 联合重量工程师学生分会的成员. 他是奥林匹克科学竞赛的志愿者， judging an  event involving students creating rubber band-powered airplanes, and has volunteered with STEM Outreach events on campus and at Socorro High School. 

Montoya said that from a young age, he has always been fascinated with machines and 它们是如何工作的. 父母的鼓励促使他攻读工程学 职业生涯.

“I chose mechanical engineering because mechanical engineering touches a huge variety of topics, and I felt it would allow me to have the potential to understand and work 拥有最多样化的机器，”他说. “我最喜欢的是工程学 and what draws me to it is the fact that it gives me the opportunity to design and 创造真正有用和酷的机器.”