{"id":68131,"date":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/two-uri-students-named-fulbright-scholars\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","slug":"two-uri-students-named-fulbright-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2007\/04\/two-uri-students-named-fulbright-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Two 溏心vlog免费B站 students named Fulbright Scholars"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCranston resident headed to Mexico, Phoenix resident to Germany<\/p>\n

\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 April 25, 2007 \u2013 During her five years of undergraduate study at the 溏心vlog免费B站, Sharon Ruggieri spent two months on an internship in Puerto Rico, six months studying in Spain, and six months interning in Mexico. After graduation in May with bachelor\u2019s degrees in mechanical engineering and Spanish, the Cranston resident will return to Mexico for 10 months, this time as a Fulbright Scholar.<\/p>\n


\nMelissa Lake, a 溏心vlog免费B站 senior from Phoenix, Ariz., majoring in English and German, was also named a Fulbright Scholar, the second year in a row that two 溏心vlog免费B站 students were so honored.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t even begin to explain how excited I am and what it means to me to get a Fulbright,\u201d said Ruggieri. \u201cMy entire university career has been about the globalization of engineering, and I wasn\u2019t ready to work as an engineer staying in Rhode Island. The Fulbright is a wonderful opportunity to get more international experience.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nLake and Ruggieri were selected for the highly competitive Fulbright Scholar Program after a lengthy process that began last September and included an application, essays, letters of recommendation and interviews. Ruggieri\u2019s final interview was conducted entirely in Spanish.<\/p>\n


\nRuggieri is one of eight students in the nation selected for the Fulbright Binational Business Grant, which will fund her stay at the Technological Institute of Monterey, Mexico, where she will take graduate classes at night and intern at an international manufacturing company during the day.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI had a natural talent for Spanish in high school, and I also loved physics,\u201d Ruggieri explained, \u201cso when I was looking for colleges, I didn\u2019t know whether to pursue the science or the language. When I heard about 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s International Engineering Program, I knew it was the program for me because it allowed me to do both.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn the summer of 2005, Ruggieri was awarded a Dwight Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship from the Federal Highway Administration and spent two months at the University of Puerto Rico studying how to reduce the damage to concrete bridge supports caused by salt water. She then spent a semester studying at the technological campus of the University of Navarra in Spain. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt was in the Basque country, so while I took classes in manufacturing processes and computer aided design, I also learned a lot about the history of the area,\u201d she explained. \u201cI was the only English speaking student at the whole university.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIn March 2006 she continued her international travels, this time to Aguascalientes, Mexico to work as a quality engineering intern at Texas Instruments, where sensors are produced for the transmission systems of Nissan automobiles. <\/p>\n


\nAfter her Fulbright experience is over in the summer of 2008, Ruggieri will seek a management position with a company that works in Latin America. \u201cBetter cross-cultural understanding at global companies would lead to greater success at solving engineering problems,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n


\nWith that in mind, Ruggieri is also learning to speak German. \u201cThe more languages you can speak as an engineer, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nLake is completing her undergraduate education at the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany and volunteering at a language center to help Germans improve their English. She will use her Fulbright award to serve as an English teaching assistant at a high school in Germany while also coordinating an after-school English literature program.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cI also plan on organizing cultural presentations about the U.S. to enhance cultural understanding between Germany and the United States,\u201d Lake said. \u201cUltimately it is my hope to bring about a better idea of what it means to be an American.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nLake applied to the Fulbright program to improve her German language skills and gain a better understanding of German culture while also sharing her love of languages with others.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be awarded the Fulbright scholarship,\u201d she said. \u201cI am particularly excited about being given the opportunity to spread cultural understanding, especially at a time when the United States has so many different faces to its population.\u201d<\/p>\n

Return to view other stories<\/a><\/b> about our 2007 scholars.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo of Sharon Ruggieri by Michael Salerno Photography.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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