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Gen X-cellence Scores Big

The buzz at Viterbi never stops. As the quality of our undergraduates continues to climb, that “Gen X-cellence” is showing up at awards time. Take a look at what some of these students have done:

• Miles Killingsworth, a senior majoring in astronautical engineering, has won the highly competitive 2007 Luce Scholarship, which will allow him to live and work in Asia for a year.Learn More >>
• Kimberly Pacheco, a junior majoring in structural engineering, won this year’s top student award from the Structural Engineers Association of Southern California. Pacheco won the Margaret Narver Memorial Scholarship in a competition with students from 11 engineering schools in Southern California.Learn More >>
• Reed Doucette, a mechanical engineering major with a 3.978 GPA, won the 2007 James Zumberge Award for the highest GPA on USC’s basketball team. The Trojans, a smart and entertaining team, reached the Sweet 16 round of this year’s NCAA championships, higher than most predicted, and their best finish since 2002.
• In the academic arena, the Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineer ing and Materials Sciences’ student chapter of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) was named national Chapter of the Month for May, the national SPE office announced earlier this year. The USC chapter organized a successful fund-raising program and handled the arrangements for the annual Western Region SPE paper contest.Learn More >>
• Engineering undergraduates Pamela Fox and Ryan Brown were congratulated for creating the most useful and the most addictive Google Gadgets in this year’s national collegiate competition.Learn More >>