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Chapter News
Ashley Kuhnley - 2022 IEEE-HKN
Outstanding Student Award Winner
Being selected for the Outstanding Student Award
is a great honor and emphasizes the advocacy I did
in my department, college, and university on behalf
of bettering students. There is a lot of power that
students don't realize they have, and I was able to
find areas within our academic environments that
were affecting students in profound ways that I felt I
Ashley Geng (our ECE department chair), have been
instrumental in how both myself and our chapter
have grown from reactivation in February of 2021
to now; our chapter is focused on helping students
in high failure rate classes, guiding first generation
students through the hidden curriculum, and aiding
ECE and CS transfers in their transition to a four-year
university, to name a few areas of need.
Everyone's university environment is different, which
creates opportunities for students to support their
communities in unique ways, and the Outstanding
Student Award is a great way for chapters to recognize
their members for that work.
Dr. Karen Panetta, 2019 IEEE-HKN President presents the Outstanding
Stude Award to Ashley Kuhnley of the Lambda Beta Chapter
had the motivation and capacity to help with. I did not
do any of this alone, but with the support of faculty
and fellow students. There will always be something
to ameliorate, and it may feel like there aren't any
changes being made because we're not at the
university for long, but everything you do does make a
difference. IEEE-HKN and my department helped me
hold our college administration accountable when we,
as students, felt our voices were diminishing.
Lambda Beta has been thrilled to be a part of the
process and to continue working on the goals we
set. The Lambda Beta advisors, Dr. Ramesh and Dr.
Honorable Mentions:
* Ideal Ademaj - Lambda Zeta Chapter,
University of North Texas
* Abdullah Hyder - Iota Delta Chapter,
Stevens Institute of Technology
* Elanor Jackson - Gamma Theta Chapter,
Missouri University of Science and Technology
* Sara Zayan - Mu Beta Chapter, Arab Academy for
Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport
Ashley was presented with the award at the
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Heads Association meeting on March 19, 2023
in Albuquerque, NM.
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