EVOLUTION OF ENGINEERING student excellence awards

ROBYN MAE PAULRobyn Paul is completing her fourth and final year in manufacturing engineering witha biomedical specialization at the Schulich School of Engineering, after completing aone-year internship working at Wartsila in Winterthur, Switzerland. Robyn is active asa leader both within the school and in the community. She represents her classmatesas VP, Manufacturing, with the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering Student’sSociety, and is the Yearbook Director for the engineering school, President of theTELUS World of Science Student Chapter, and she volunteers with Safewalk and Intothe Streets. In addition, Robyn salsa dances with the Student Dance Club, trains withthe University Triathlon Club and is part of a local yoga studio. In 2010/2011 shewas the recipient of the John Jacobson Engineering Leadership Award, the Mike WardEngineering Internship Prize, the Engineering Internship Merit Awards, and theGienow Advanced Manufacturing Undergraduate Scholarship.AGNES SOOSAgnes Soos is a fourth year chemical engineering student, specializing in biomedicalengineering. During the course of her undergraduate studies, Agnes participatedin several competitions, placing first at both the Western and Canadian EngineeringCompetitions in the category of Team Design in 2009.She has also undertaken bioengineering research as an undergraduate student at theUniversity of Calgary (2009) and the University of Waterloo (2010). Her creativityand artistic abilities are applied in roles such as hallway decor team for EngineeringWeek, Social and Division Council Representative at the Waterloo CooperativeResidence Inc., and student member on the Schulich Open House OrganizingCommittee. In 2009/2010 she was the award recipient of the Edward WichertUndergraduate Scholarship.