Students who choose to study engineering are among the most diversified and academically successful at Princeton. At graduation last June, covale- dictorian Jared Kramer '01 became the third engineering student in a row to give a valedictory address. Covaledictorian, Christine McLeavey '01, a physics major, also completed the engineering physics certificate program and wrote her senior thesis under the supervision of Professor Michael Littman in mechanical and aerospace engineering.

Abbie Liel '02, a civil and environmental engineering major, received a Marshall Scholarship, which she will use to study civil engineering at University College of London and building and urban design for another year. She also received the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize in recognition of exceptional academic achievement in her junior year. Each year, at least 50 percent of the B.S.E. students meet the requirements of at least one certificate of proficiency and many earn two or more certificates. In 2001, certificates earned by engineering students included African-American Studies, American Studies, East Asian Studies, Italian, Japanese, Linguistics, Musical Performance, and Theatre and Dance.

Almost every organized sport has an engineer on the team. Twenty-three percent of the Class of '02, 26 percent of the Class of '03, and 28 percent of the Class of '04 are involved in at least one sport. About one quarter of the football team is engineering students, including Matthew Antony '04, Randall Bly '04, Ezekiel Burke '04, Robert Currey '03, Aaron Ellerbee '04, Alaric Hammell '04, John Peluse '02, Timothy Releford '04, Patrick Schottel '03, Samuel Snyder '04, and Garret Weston '04.

There are nine engineering students on the men's heavyweight crew team (Craig Brown '02, John Cranston '03, James Faris '04, Andrew Fraker '03, Seton Marshall '02, Sean McCormick '02, Thomas Reichel '04, Christopher Schneider '02, and William Weyerhaeuser) and eight engineering students are on the women's lightweight crew, including junior varsity (Elizabeth Danaher '03, Megan Higgins '02, Meghann Lomas '02, Lauren Mauro '02, Kathleen Molnar '04, Shannon Okuyama '03, Eva Katharina Steinle-Darling '03, and Ashley Zohn '04).

Fencing is another sport favored by engineering students, including Edward Chou '03, Michael Cohen '02, Mary Dunlop '02, Matthew Fitzgerald '02, Robert Garnier '02, James Leighton '04, Philip Nevels '03, and Eva Petschnigg '03. SEAS students also are well-represented in the University's cultural community.

Abbie plays the bassoon in the University orchestra. Joining her in the orchestra are engineering students Sandya Bondada '04 on violin, and Emily Huang '05 on cello. Almost 30 percent of the University Concert Jazz Ensemble is composed of engineers: Chris Bobko '03 and Sam Edoho-Eket '02 on trombone, Corydon Jerch '04 and Scott Eblen '02 on trumpet, and Scott Lescher '03 on drums.

Members of the University Band are Jeff Bell '04, Michael Bulboff '02, Devon Bush '02, Mati Chessin '04, Celeste Coleman '03, Scott Eblen '02, Brendan Kavanagh '04, Kathleen Miranda '02, Sara Molouki '04, Stan Morton '04, and Todd Templeton '04. Two engineering students (Jennifer Greenlief '05 and Clare McNamara '05) sing in the Princeton University Concert Choir. Ryan Goldenberg '03, Varchas Prasad '03, and Thomas Spencer '04 are members of the Chapel Choir and the Footnotes, an all-male a cappella group.

Thespian engineers include Robin Giese '02, who was the technical director and designer for Princeton Summer Theater this past summer. Benjamin Markham '02 was president of Triangle last year and Jason Block '02 was technical director of Triangle.

Engineering students are members of several of the University's student dance companies, including the Black Arts Dance Company (Kemesha Delisser '02, Russell Ellis '02, Jeff Key '04, Stacia Thompson '03, and Alicia Wright '02); the Princeton South Asian Theatrics (Vijay Bhat '02, Ramesh Dharan '02, Mahima Gupta '03, Siddhartha Gupta '04, Anjum Hossain '03, AvikMukhopadhyay '02, Sasha Rao '04, and Sanjay Varma '03); and diSiac Dance Company (Milo Adams '04, Aaron Ellerbee '04, Thomas Mandecki '04, Bryan Oh '03, and Matthew Stack '04).

SEAS accounts for 18 percent of the total undergraduate population-but that 18 percent is an extremely motivated and talented pool