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Padnos College Students Recognized for Academic Excellence & Outstanding Contributions
May 23, 2022
Several Padnos College of Engineering & Computing students were recognized by Grand Valley State University with awards for academic excellence and outstanding contributions. Please join us in recognizing and celebrating their achievements!
Glenn A. Niemeyer Award
Sam Menzie (pictured) is an occupational safety and health management major and one of five recipients of the Niemeyer Award, presented to undergraduate and graduate students who demonstrate excellence in the classroom and on campus.
Menzie will return to Grand Valley next fall to begin the master's degree program in biomedical engineering. He said he eventually would like to develop equipment that prevents musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace.
The OSHM program offered Menzie a blend of engineering and working directly with people. "It also let me flex my love of writing more than a traditional engineering role would," he said. Menzie has volunteered at area high schools as a member of Young Life, and has worked as a consultant at the Fred Meijer Center for Writing and as a lab assistant for OSHM.
"As a lab assistant, I had the amazing responsibility of helping support students who are doing project work to serve workers in the greater Grand Rapids area as a part of their curriculum," he said. "I don't know if I made the biggest splash during my time at GVSU, but I am proud of the impact that I have had."
Thomas M. Seykora Award for Outstanding Contribution
The Seykora Award recognizes a number of seniors who, through their involvement, have made significant and outstanding contributions to the campus community.
Aziz Sarhan Jr., Mechanical Engineering
Nicole Seiler,
Occupational Safety and Health Management
Excellence-in-a-Discipline Award
The Excellence-in-a-Discipline Award honors one student from each undergraduate and graduate discipline. Faculty from each department select the recipient based upon an earned minimum number of credit hours at an exceptional grade point average.
Dominic Smith, Computer Engineering
Nathan Funckes, Computer
Science
Mary Benton, Cybersecurity
Karmyn VonEhr, Electrical
Engineering
Nicole Nelson, Interdisciplinary Engineering
Kara
Byers, Information Systems
Isaac Beasley, Information
Technology
Camryn Lozon, Mechanical Engineering
Nicole Seiler,
Occupational Safety and Health Management
Elizabeth Mitchell,
Applied Computer Science (M.S.)
Jacob Coddaire, Cybersecurity
(M.S.)
Alyssa Hawker, Data Science and Analytics (M.S.)
North
Yates, Engineering (M.S.E.)
Sierra Strutz, Health Informatics and
Bioinformatics (M.S.)
View the full list of 2021-22 GVSU student award recipients.