The Engineering Diversity Program would like to recognize the following students for being the movers and shakers of 2017:

Completed an Internship Experience

• Kunal Ashok, mechanical engineering junior, Y-12 (Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
• Abdullah Bahour, biomedical engineering senior, AT&T (Meridian, Mississippi)
• Sierra Ellis, mechanical engineering senior, General Motors (Milford, Michigan)
• Cassandra Finney, chemical engineering senior, ExxonMobil Chemical Company (Houston, Texas)
• Miles Gepner, computer science senior, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Lexington, Massachusetts)
• Lina Gouto, chemical engineering junior, PepsiCo (Pulaski, Tennessee)
• Cullen Johnson, industrial engineering senior, Under Armour (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Marley Machara, wildlife & fisheries sophomore, Tennessee Wildlife Resource Agency (Nashville, Tennessee)
• Samantha Medina, material science & engineering senior, Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, Illinois)
• Elvis Offor, computer science senior, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, New York)
• Jaime Ragos, food science & technology senior, research internship, Barbra Ford Center for Peace (Guatemala)
• Bianca Swift, statistics senior, Lowes (Charlotte, North Carolina)
• Corey Williams, mechanical engineering junior, Denso Manufacturing (Maryville, Tennessee)
• Simone Yates, animal science sophomore, SweetBio (Memphis, Tennessee)
• Jasmine Worlds, mechanical engineering senior, PepsiCo (Plano, Texas)
• Kayln Wright, nuclear engineering sophomore, Exelon Generation (Dresden Station, Illinois)

Completed a Cooperative Education Experience

• Carlos Calloway, mechanical engineering senior, CEMEX (Knoxville, Tennessee)
• Asia Conley, nuclear engineering senior, Southern Nuclear Company (Dothan, Alabama)
• Breanna Ellis, material science and engineering junior, Denso Manufacturing (Maryville, Tennessee)
• Daniel Enciso, computer engineering junior, OSIsoft LLC (Johnson City, Tennessee)
• Laura Ferrer, civil engineering junior, Southern Company (Birmingham, Alabama)
• Lina Gouto, chemical engineering junior, Johnson & Johnson (Skillman, New Jersey, 2016) and Dow Chemical (Pittsburg, California, 2017)
• Evan Wilmer, chemical engineering senior, Kimberly Clark (Loudon, Tennessee)

Completed an Undergraduate Research Experience

• Abdullah Bahour, biomedical engineering senior, UT Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
• Asia Conley, nuclear engineering senior, UT Department of Nuclear Engineering
• Laura Ferrer, civil engineering junior, UT Department of Civil Engineering (2016) and Texas A&M, Kingsville, Texas (2017)
• Tavian Holbrook, biological science sophomore, UT Department of Microbiology
• Danielle Holdren, animal science sophomore, UT Department of Microbiology
• Kendra Jackson, civil engineering sophomore, UT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Alexandra Jean, chemical engineering senior, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• Hunter Mann, computer engineering sophomore, UT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
• Simone Yates, animal science sophomore, UT Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology
• Lam Vo, chemical engineering sophomore, UT Department of Biochemistry Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Kenneth Washington, mechanical engineering senior, UT Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
• Arianna Worthy, aerospace engineering sophomore, UT Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering
• Henna Zaver, biological science sophomore, UT Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Completed a Study Abroad Service Trip

• Shavoshia Leslie, electrical engineering sophomore, service project, Guatemala

Studied Abroad

• Sydnee Ruff, chemical engineering sophomore, Milan, Italy

Accepted a Position

• Tina Anjonrin-Ohu, biomedical engineering senior, DeRoyal (Powell, Tennessee)
• Daniel Caballero, computer engineering senior, Northrop Grumman (Melbourne, Florida)
• Carlos Calloway, mechanical engineering senior, PepsiCo (Fayetteville, Tennessee)
• Jermaine Cheairs, electrical engineering senior, Georgia Pacific (Tallahassee, Florida)
• Lauren Cuevas-Melendez, chemical engineering senior, Accenture (New York City)
• Kalese Howse, industrial engineering senior, Toyota (Georgetown, Kentucky)
• Nate Ige, computer science senior, Northrop Grumman (Melbourne, Florida)
• Imani Jackson, mechanical engineering senior, Denso Manufacturing (Maryville, Tennessee)

Will be Attending Graduate School

• Miles Gepner, computer science senior, will be attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Jourdan Jones, food science and technology senior, will be attending the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• Samantha Medina, material science and engineering senior, will be attending graduate school at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, CO.
• Chima McGruder, physics senior, will be attending graduate school at Harvard University.
• Elvis Offor, computer science senior, will be attending graduate school at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
• Tony Perez, physics senior, will be attending graduate school at University of Illinois, Chicago.

Alumni Spotlight: Amber Nixon

Amber Nixon participated in the Bechtel HITES summer program as a high school senior, and was one of the summer project team winners. After her experience here on campus she became a Volunteer, and spent her college years serving the National Society of Black Engineers on both the chapter and regional level.

Nixon was a strong leader in the Engineering Diversity community, keeping active with community service, Mini-Seek programs, and much more. For her work and dedication, she was the recipient of the Golden Torch Award in her senior year. This award is given to a student leader who embodies the mission of the organization: to increase the number of culturally responsible black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and positively impact the community.

Nixon graduated from UT and now works as a supply-chain resource at the Frito Lay plant in Perry, Georgia, the company’s largest in North America. She manages a team of 120 in the Geographic Enterprise Systems (GES) department, where they make and deliver customized orders directly to stores.