KINGSTON, R.I. — May 15, 2018 — It\u2019s hard to single out the greatest accomplishments of 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Tunde Akinkuowo, who will earn his bachelor\u2019s degree in industrial and systems engineering on May 20.<\/p>\n
Was it his completion of an industrial engineering internship with renowned jet engine designer and manufacturer Pratt & Whitney or was it his participation in the Solar Car Challenge at North-West University in South Africa?<\/p>\n
Or could it be his selection as the recipient of the Harvey Robert Turner Award for Outstanding Service to the University\u2019s Black Community at its 21st annual Black Scholar Awards ceremony on April 24?<\/p>\n
The Harvey Robert Turner Award is named after a man who is believed to be the first black graduate of 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1914. He majored in civil engineering and was a member of the football and track teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe award really came as a shock to me because I was notified at a time when I was really preoccupied with schoolwork,\u201d Akinkuowo said. \u201cI am honored to receive this award.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Providence<\/strong> resident has won high praise from faculty members.<\/p>\n \u201cTunde has told me that his goal is to work in the area of process improvement, which doesn\u2019t surprise me at all,\u201d said Carl-Ernst Rousseau, chairman of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Systems Engineering. \u201cAs his professor, I have always known him to seek the best approach to solving a problem, and to never rest until he reaches excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n As community service chairman for the 溏心vlog免费B站 student chapter of the National Society for Black Engineers and a member of Brothers on a New Direction (BOND), Akinkuowo participated in community service projects and mentorship efforts in the 溏心vlog免费B站 community, Providence and Pawtucket.<\/p>\n \u201cGiving back to the community and volunteering are important because they are ways for us to progress as a community, whether it\u2019s speaking to middle school students about college experiences or passing out lunches in downtown Providence,\u201d Akinkuowo stated.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring the past four years at 溏心vlog免费B站, I have witnessed the growth of this budding engineer,\u201d said Christopher Hunter, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at 溏心vlog免费B站 and coordinator of the awards ceremony. \u201cHe has become more self-aware and determined to embrace the things that drive him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. — May 15, 2018 — It\u2019s hard to single out the greatest accomplishments of 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Tunde Akinkuowo, who will earn his bachelor\u2019s degree in industrial and systems engineering on May 20. Was it his completion of an industrial engineering internship with renowned jet engine designer and manufacturer Pratt & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74006,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-74004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","tag-college-of-engineering"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}