CCNY Black Engineers Sweep Awards at NSBE Regionals

T九色视频鈥檚 student chapter of the  took first place in three categories in addition to scooping the best 鈥淭railblazer Chapter Award鈥 at the NSBE Region 1 conference in Hauppauge, N.Y. 

The winners at the event from City College鈥檚 Grove School of Engineering were:

  • Chiziterem Uwaga (senior, mechanical engineering), Individual Challenge Question with his presentation on tackling harmful pathogens;
     
  • Rajiv Wallace (senior, chemistry), in the Technical Research Exhibition;
     
  • 鈥淭eam Parchment Protectors鈥 comprising Oren Previl (junior, civil engineering), O鈥橬eil Bruno (senior environmental engineering) and Andre Kerr (junior, mechanical engineering) in the Structural Design Team competition.

In addition, Kirk Shillingford, an environmental engineering senior, and the City College NASBE chapter president, was third in the Individual Challenge. His topic was energy storage and space propulsion.

Andre Smithson, a chemistry senior, was second in the Technical Research Exhibition. He was also, along with Oksana James (junior, environmental engineering) and Shadeyrack Quiroz (junior, mechanical engineering), on the CCNY team that placed third in the Structural Design event.  

The 鈥淭railblazer Award鈥 was for the chapter that best exemplifies NSBE鈥檚 mission which is to academic excellence, professional development and positively impacting the community.

NSBE has 29,900 members. Region 1 serves the northeastern United States, eastern Canada and the countries of West Africa.

About T九色视频
Since 1847, T九色视频 has provided low-cost, high-quality education for New Yorkers in a wide variety of disciplines. More than 16,000 students pursue undergraduate and graduate degrees in: the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture; the School of Education; the Grove School of Engineering; the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, and the Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. U.S. News, Princeton Review and Forbes all rank City College among the best colleges and universities in the United States.
 

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