Amanda Pannell was selected as the recipient of the Outstanding Senior in Engineering, sponsored by Corning, Inc. Amanda is a senior in Biomedical Engineering and will graduate in December.  She is a member of Purdue SWE, and is this spring’s Student Affairs Chair.  Amanda is also on the leadership team of the Women in Engineering Program’s Imagination, Innovation, Discovery, and Design (I2D2) initiative, in which team members visit local K-5 after school programs and facilitate hands-on engineering activities.  She has also been a camp counselor for WIEP.  Amanda has been a Boiler Gold Rush Team Leader,  a member of the Purdue Student Engineering Foundation, and has held several leadership positions in Alpha Xi Delta and Purdue Panhellenic Association.  She has been a peer teaching assistant with the First Year Honors Engineering courses.  Amanda has done undergraduate research in Biomedical Engineering, and has completed a co-op program with Eli Lilly.

Amanda Evans received the Outstanding BME Student Award. Amanda is also a senior in Biomedical Engineering and will graduate in May.  Amanda is this year’s Student Body Treasurer for the Purdue Student Government and has been a part of PSG for 2 years.  She is also the past vice president of the Purdue Engineering Student Council, and the chairperson of the Student Organization Grant Allocation committee.  Amanda is also a member of the Mortar Board honorary and an ambassador for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. She is a mentor in the Biomedical Engineering Society and is an active volunteer for organizations such as the Lafayette Adult Resource Academy, Habitat for Humanity, and Food Finders Food Bank.  She has done undergraduate research with BME’s Center for Implantable Devices.  She was a consultant with Innovia Technology in Cambridge, UK in the summer of 2011, and has also been an intern with Procter & Gamble.

Congratulations to both Amandas!