("Pomp and Circumstance" plays) (audience applauds while music continues) (graduates cheer while music continues) - Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.

My name's Leo Kempel, Dean of the College of Engineering.

As we get underway this afternoon, we ask that you join our graduates and faculty in the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner".

Mr. Nick Filerman Computer Science graduate will lead the singing and request you to join him and sing with enthusiasm.

Nick is the son of of Lori Filerman and Greg Filerman and is from Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Would you all please stand and face the American flag?

Gentlemen, please remove your hats.

- [Conductor] Intro.

I'll give you two.

Intro.

I'll give you two.

And ready... 1... 2.

(The MSU Symphony plays "The Star Spangled Banner") ♪ O, say, can you see ♪ ♪ By the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ Through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ O'er the ramparts we watched ♪ ♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ And the rockets' red glare ♪ ♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ Gave proof through the night ♪ ♪ That our flag was still there ♪ ♪ O, say, does that ♪ ♪ Star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ O'er the land of the free ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ (audience cheers) - Thank you.

Please be seated.

I would like to welcome everyone to this very special ceremony where we pay tribute to those who have successfully completed the requirements for a bachelor's degree in engineering.

And to alumni, faculty and friends receiving special recognition for their outstanding career accomplishments.

This is a joyous but solemn occasion.

Out of respect for those speaking and those being recognized, I ask you hold your applause in celebration until the end of each segment of the program.

You're also reminded to please silence your cell phones.

Today we bring together our graduates, along with their families and friends to honor your accomplishments.

We gather today while becoming mindful that the community is still mourning the violence within our community on February 13th.

It may feel uncomfortable to celebrate while the occasion still consumes much of our thoughts and feelings.

We are dedicated to supporting everyone who's impacted by this event, including the students who were injured, witnesses to the violence and the families of those who were injured.

As we begin to shift to a celebration of your accomplishments, let us pause for a moment of silence to consider how we can live our lives in a way that honors all Spartans, including those who are no longer with us.

Thank you.

Today's ceremony represents a culmination of discipline, intellectual work, and creative imagination.

Certainly no small accomplishment for those- For the many of you and your families here.

Today, the sacrifice has been long and great.

The degree that you have earned acknowledges your success and honors those who have encouraged it.

You've all done all this in the face of some of the most challenging times this university and this world have seen.

It's been a tough time to be a Spartan and you as students have been asked to participate, stand up and voice your opinions in ways that those before you have not.

I commend all of you for your commitment to MSU and for coming through these troubled times with grace.

Our wish is that you'll always be leaders who generously use your intelligence and your knowledge to improve the quality of life for your community, to advance the common good and to renew hope in the human spirit.

Our faculty, the administrators, and the MSU trustees are very proud of all of you.

Please accept our warmest congratulations and best wishes.

(applause) I'd like to now ask a member of the 2023 graduating class to reflect upon her engineering undergraduate experience.

I'm pleased to introduce Ms. Mikayla Norton, an applied engineering sciences graduate, who was selected by the faculty and the engineering student council to provide the student address.

Mikayla is from Howell, Michigan and is the daughter of Dean and Lisa Norton.

Mikayla.

(audience cheers and applauds) - Thank you Dean Kempel for that kind introduction.

Thank you, Class of 2023, Engineering Student Council for inviting me.

Thank you distinguished faculty, family, and loved ones.

I'd like to give a special shout out to my parents, both Spartan alumni, and to my brother and soon-to-be sister-in-law who flew all the way from California to be here.

Even though he's a Wolverine, we still love him.

(audience laughs) And thank you to my class, our class, the class of 2023.

My name is Mikayla and I am so excited to be here with you all today and honored to represent our class of Spartan engineers.

Show of hands, how many of us are happy to be graduating?

How many of us are sad to be graduating?

How many are both?

I'm feeling the both.

Michigan State is proudly my home and even after the hardship we faced this semester, my connection to this place became far deeper and more complex than I ever imagined.

My sense of being a Spartan is far stronger than it ever would have been.

I hope we can all treasure this as the legacy left behind by our fellow Spartans.

But we are more than Spartans.

We are Spartan engineers.

(audience cheers) More importantly, we're now alumni.

Pretty soon.

Someone once told me that when you are a college student, you're in a community that chose you.

But once you graduate, you are in a community you choose to be in.

Over four years, we have learned how different we are.

We've learned how we process both stress and success, both joy and loss, unique to each of us.

But there are things that will tie us together forever.

We went through CSE 231, circuits, thermodynamics, and all of those calculus credits.

We got up too early and stayed up way too late.

We endured what feels like hundreds of Zoom calls.

We stood in line for those disgusting Spartan spit kits and all of those Izzone tickets.

Coach Izzo told us we need to be there for each other.

He also told us we all have a voice.

We all have a way to move the needle with our own voice and with that message in mind, I wanted to talk about being present in each other's lives.

About talking with honesty and listening with earnestness.

About bringing our authentic selves to as many days as we can.

Just imagine if we could be that intentional, even some of the time.

We all wanted to become engineers in order to solve problems and maybe even change the world for the better.

I hope we will all try to do that.

Just imagine that.

Imagine if every day we tried to bring our best selves.

if we tried to conduct ourselves with intent and authenticity.

Imagine the through line we could create between what we bring to our daily work and how we are perceived as a result.

And how that perception itself can help us be change agents in the world.

Imagine what that would say about you.

What it would say about MSU and the legacy of our community.

We will always be united by what we have faced together.

An unfathomable pandemic, unimaginable violence.

We have truly stood in the deep end together.

If you've found your voice after all of those challenges, don't lose it.

If voices have risen around you that really speak to you, listen.

Maybe that can be the legacy of being a Spartan engineer and maybe the legacy of this class of 2023.

That we show up.

We listen.

We are there for it every day.

We build teams, we collaborate, we lead, we lift each other up.

If we did that, if that was the hallmark of our time at MSU, wouldn't that be something spectacular?

We all came in on our own journey and we will all leave on our own path, but I know wherever life takes us next, I will always be grateful for this Spartan family.

Before I take my chair, please join me in a round of applause for anyone who helped you get here.

Family, friends, old teachers, tutors, coaches and mentors.

They will always be part of our Spartan family too.

Clap for them.

Clap for the person next to you.

Clap for yourselves.

Go green.

Thank you.

(audience applauds) - Well, that's a hard act to follow.

Thank you, Mikayla, for your thoughtful comments on behalf of all the engineering graduates.

Turning to the award and recognition part of the program, we begin with the Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award.

This award is given annually to a graduate of the College of Engineering who's attained the highest level professional accomplishment, provided distinguished and meritorious service to the college and to the engineering profession, and engaged in voluntary service at the local, state, or in a national level.

The award is named for Claud Erickson, who received four engineering degrees from MSU, beginning with a bachelor of science in 1922.

He also studied law and was qualified to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Continuing in the same spirit for which Claud lived his life, we gather here today to honor another distinguished alumna and add her to the list of those the college holds forth as examples for our graduates.

I'm pleased to introduce Cindy Westerhof, Vice Chair of the Engineering Alumni Board who will introduce this year's recipient.

Cindy.

(audience applauds) - Thank you Leo.

As chair of the College of Engineering Alumni Board, it is my honor to congratulate you, the students soon to be graduates, and welcome you to the alumni family.

We are proud of your accomplishments and look forward to your continued contact with the college and with MSU.

It is my honor and pleasure to introduce to you the recipient of the 2023 Claud Erickson Distinguished Award Donnie Haye.

(Cindy and audience claps) Donnie is a global business leader with multiple IBM executive positions in operations, finance, service delivery, and transformation.

She is a recognized leader, enhancing client services and business operations through the development and implementation of innovative analytics, all- AI solutions and automation.

With accompanying process transformational.

Donnie began her career with IBM as a product manager holding various positions before becoming the first ever woman's site controller for IBM.

She continued on at IBM, holding several vice presidential roles, as well as CFO for IBM in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

While at MSU, Donnie was a member of a number of student organizations, honor societies, and a member of the 1980 homecoming court.

She still serves MSU as a member of the MSU Foundation Advisory Board and served for 10 years on the College of Engineering Advisory board.

She credits her time at MSU and what she learned here in the College of Engineering as instrumental in her career success over the years.

Please join me in congratulating my friend Donnie.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Cindy, and my thanks to the dean and the faculty of this great College of Engineering.

Congratulations graduates, yeah!

(audience claps) And congratulations to all those that helped you achieve this milestone today.

Whether you're here in the Breslin or wherever you are, thank you.

We congratulate you.

You guys as graduates are my heroes and heroines.

To have earned your engineering degree, which is hard enough to do in the best of times, but to have done it through a hopefully once in a lifetime pandemic and then through the painful days that have followed February 13th.

I am in awe.

I actually wanna ask you all for advice, but I kind of understand that's not the way this gig is supposed to work, so I will humbly share a few things that I have learned along the way.

Now, none of these suggestions are rocket science, but I do share them from my heart and from my experience.

First, never stop learning and being curious.

Now, I know that you've been through years of studying and learning and you're smart enough to know you have to learn the technical elements of your next position, whether in a corporation, at a university, in government, in an NGO.

Wherever you're gonna be.

However, I would also suggest that you learn and be curious about the non-technical elements of your workplace as well.

How are decisions made and under what circumstances?

Why does certain projects get that funding and certain not?

If it's not apparent, ask your management.

And speaking of management, observe what leadership styles work and under what circumstances.

As important, look at what management styles don't work.

So take note of the people you admire and how they handle situations and motivate people.

By noting all these learnings, you have the opportunity to be more effective as your role in the organization increases and you move into leadership and decision making positions.

Second piece of advice, don't be afraid to take the high beta assignment.

Now, what do I mean by this?

In the stock market, high beta stocks move in a more amplified dramatic fashion versus the market average.

These high beta opportunities that I reference are likely to be somewhat risky, but I believe offer a greater opportunity for learning.

When I was just a few years into my career at IBM, and yeah, that was decades ago, okay, I was offered the opportunity to move to Tokyo and take a position in the Asia Pacific headquarters.

I had never been to Japan or Asia.

I did not speak nor read Japanese, and I'd never been in the finance function.

This was a high beta offer.

I had more people telling me not to take the opportunity than those who are encouraging it.

But something in my head told me it can be an important learning opportunity.

I had seen what the Asian car manufacturers had done to the US automotive industry in my home state, and at that time, Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC and the other Asian manufacturers were thought to be the biggest threats to the high end and very profitable mainframe business of IBM.

I thought it'd be be helpful to learn how our competitors did business in their own region.

So I spent two years as a pricing analyst for mainframe servers and storage.

The highs were higher, the lows were lower.

When things weren't going well, I felt very isolated.

I couldn't just call up my dear mom and dad nor see 'em for a hug, and I did- but I did learn a lot technically.

I grew enormously as a business person.

I met and worked with people from all over the world.

I learned Asian business practices.

I hope I also, you know, helped a little along the way for my Japanese male counterparts to see that women could lead.

Most importantly, though, I grew as a citizen of the world.

I met so many cool people in my travels.

I rode elephants in Nepal and camels in India like 50 miles from the Pakistani border.

Perhaps I was a little crazy back then.

The friends I made through that time are my friends today.

These were a couple of the best and most impactful two years of my life.

So I encourage you to take those high beta opportunities and learn from them.

The last point of advice, work to make it better.

Certainly the world has a lot of challenges that we all face.

We know what they are, I don't have to list them.

But I have great faith that your generation will use your creativity and diligence to help society address these monumental issues.

Now, you may not individually be working on one of them, however, there are gonna be many issues and inefficiencies, but you can work to address in the roles that you have.

Don't be one of those people that just complains.

Those negative people kind of drain the energy from others.

Be someone who notes what's not working and proactively work to find solutions.

This won't be easy.

Many people will tell you no along the way.

Trust me on that.

A solution may ultimately be only an incremental improvement, but it will be needed and it will be rewarding to you.

And this approach can be used of making it better.

Apply it in all areas: your work, your home, organizations you support.

I love the slogan "Spartans will".

Spartans are smart, diligent, resilient and can work with others to get things done.

Together we'll make it better.

So in closing, my congratulations again to you and all those who made this day happen.

You should be incredibly proud.

Keep learning and be curious.

Go for those high beta opportunities.

And work to make things better in every role you have.

God's blessings and happiness to you all.

And forever.

go green.

- [Graduate] Go white!

(audience cheers) - Thank you, Donnie.

We're proud of your accomplishments as an outstanding Spartan engineer.

The College of Engineering has a long list of distinguished alumni graduating from each of our academic departments.

This year's recipients were honored at a formal dinner last evening and we'd like to also recognize several of them in the ceremony as an example and inspiration to our new graduates.

Please hold your applause until all the winners have been introduced.

Will the alumni award winners please stand as I read your name.

Geoff Gavrila, Applied Engineering Sciences, Keith Tinsey, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Brian Kent on behalf of his brother, John Kent, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, James Wineman, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Congratulations to each of you.

(audience applauds) Your achievements are an inspiration to all of us and a hallmark of everything MSU strives to achieve in its graduates.

Michigan State University's home to incredibly talented faculty and those in the College of Engineering are no exception.

It's my pleasure to recognize faculty and staff who won the 2023 Withrow Teaching, Scholarship and Student Service Awards.

Through the generosity of Jack and Dorothea Withrow, we established awards for engineering faculty and staff to recognize outstanding teaching, scholarship, professional service and service to students.

For those faculty and staff awardees, please stand as I read your name.

I ask the audience to withhold applause until all awardees have been introduced.

Withrow Teaching Excellence Award recipients are Dawn Dechand, Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering; Brian Johnson, Biomedical Engineering; Don Morelli, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Kaisen Lin, Civil and Environmental Engineering; Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Computer Science; Elizabeth Munch, Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering; Bahare Kiumarsi, Electrical and Computer Engineering; and Rebecca Anthony, Mechanical Engineering.

(audience applauds) Withrow Distinguished Scholar Award recipient Qi Hua Fan, Electrical and Computer Engineering.

The Withrow Distinguished Senior Scholar Award recipient is Thomas Bieler, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Xiaoming Liu, Computer Science and Engineering.

(audience applauds) The Withrow Global Leadership Award recipient is Ramani Narayan, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science.

(audience cheers) The Withrow Excellence in Diversity Award recipients are Kristen Cetin, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Susan Masten, also of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

(audience cheers) The Withrow Student Service Award recipient is Erica Weeks Director of Academic Advising.

(audience cheers) Out there somewhere.

On behalf of MSU Engineering students and the College, thank you for your excellence in teaching and research, professional service, and most of all outstanding service to students.

(audience applauds) It's now my privilege to recognize the special accomplishments of graduates who've distinguished themselves for their outstanding academic achievement.

Riley Lawson, please stand.

Riley is a graduate from Electrical Engineering and Advanced Mathematics and the Honors College and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Congratulations, Riley.

(audience applauds) Ashley Maloney, please stand.

Ashley's a graduate from Chemical Engineering and the Honors College and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Congratulations, Ashley.

(audience cheers) Bonnie Stolt, please stand.

Bonnie is a graduate from Materials Science and Engineering and the Honors College and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Congratulations, Bonnie.

(audience applauds and cheers) - We wish to pay tribute to graduates who not only completed their academic program successfully, but who have the distinction having maintained the highest grade point averages in the class, thereby meriting the Board of Trustees Award.

This semester, 34 engineering graduates earned a 4.0 average and were recipients of this award.

As I read each of your names, please stand and remain standing.

I ask the audience to please withhold applause until all the names have been read.

Hemkesh Agrawal, Computer Science Honors College; Alec Bensman, Computer Science Honors College; Thomas Burgess III, Mechanical Engineering Honors College; Ian Byram, Computer Science; Alexis Chuong, Chemical Engineering Honors College; (audience cheers) Ryan Danaj, Biosystems Engineering; Adam Dec, Computational Data Science; Joseph Dec, Civil Engineering; Brendan Doane, Mechanical Engineering, Honors College; John Droste, Mechanical Engineering Honors College; Kiet Duong, Mechanical Engineering Honors College; Carolyn Gormely, Computer Science Honors College; Thaddaeus Greiner, Computer Science Honors College; Sohan Gupta, Mechanical Engineering Honors College; (audience cheers) Jackson Haugen, Computer Science Honors- Computer Science, College of Engineering, Mathematics, College of Natural Science Honors College.

Whew.

(audience applauds) Justin Henkelman, Computer Science; Aaron Jonckheere, Computer Engineering Honors College; Adam Kasumovic, Computer Science Honors College; Anurag Kompalli, Computer Science; Riley Lawson, Electrical Engineering Advanced Mathematics, College of Natural Science Honors College; Ashley Maloney, Chemical Engineering Honors College; (audience cheers) Katherine Mann, Biosystems Engineering; Minh Nguyen, Mechanical Engineering; Jason Nitkiewicz, Computational Data Science Honors College; (audience cheers) Harriet Pimentel, Computational Data Science Honors College; Tanawan Premsri, Computer Science Honors College; Olivia Reyes, Mechanical Engineering; Jacob Rutkowski, Mechanical Engineering Honors College; Justin Scott, Applied Engineering Sciences; Tytus Sewell, Chemical Engineering; (audience cheers and applauds) Michael Strong, Mechanical Engineering; Caleb Wagaman, chemical Engineering; Katherine White, Computer Science and Hanwen Zuo, Computer Science.

On behalf of the Board of Trustees, congratulations.

(audience applauds and cheers) Our next group of honorees are students nominated by a member of the MSU Engineering community for the service to the College.

When your name is called, please stand and remain standing.

Brittany Bush, Mechanical Engineering; Maryam Esho, Applied Engineering Sciences; Lucas Rakieten, Materials Science and Engineering; Olivia Reyes, Mechanical Engineering; Bonnie Stolt, Materials Science and Engineering; James Van Antwerp, Chemical Engineering; and Andrew Webster, Civil Engineering.

(audience applauds and cheers) Congratulations.

Will you please join me in offering collective tribute to these outstanding engineering students.

Please be seated.

(audience applauds) Engineering students who are also graduating from the MSU Honors College have completed a rigorous set of enriched courses during their engineering curriculum and are identified by the white collar stole with the HC designation.

Would all members of the Honors College stand for recognition?

(audience cheers) Please be seated.

Co-ops and internships are extremely important for many of us in the College.

Students who completed their last three co-op internship experiences along with completing EGR X for each experience are wearing the orange and white cords.

Please stand to be recognized.

(audience cheers) Please be seated.

Finally, MSU is a national leader in the development of international programs.

Through both student and faculty participation in these programs, we continue to play an important role in enhancing global understanding and building an international community of scholars.

Would all students who have participated in an educational abroad program or international research or work opportunity, please stand for recognition?

(audience cheers) The MSU Symphony Band will now present "Fantasy on MSU Songs" composed by James Curnow and conducted by Michael Parker.

Thank you.

(orchestral music begins) (orchestral music continues) (orchestral music swells) (bells chime) (subdued orchestral music continues) (orchestral music continues) (orchestral music swells to MSU Fight Song) ♪ Go right thru' for MSU ♪ ♪ Watch the points keep growing ♪ ♪ Spartan teams are bound to win ♪ ♪ They're fighting with a vim ♪ ♪ RAH RAH RAH ♪ ♪ See their team is weakening ♪ ♪ We're going to win this game ♪ ♪ Fight Fight Rah Team, Fight ♪ ♪ Victory for MSU ♪ (bell chimes with horn accompaniment) (rest of symphony joins) (symphony ends) (audience cheers) Thank you, MSU Symphony Band.

Now we're at the part in the program I think all of you've been waiting for.

We shall now confer the baccalaureate degrees upon candidates from the major programs of the College.

The candidates from the major of Applied Engineering Sciences will be presented by Dr. Laura Genik, director of the program.

(audience cheers) - Will the candidates for the baccalaureate degree in Applied Engineering Sciences please rise and remain standing.

Dean Kempel I proudly on behalf of the faculty of Applied Engineering Sciences present these candidates for the awarding of their baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

The candidates from the major of Biosystems Engineering will be presented by Dr. Jade Mitchell, Associate Chair of the department.

- Would candidates for the bachelor's degree in Biosystems Engineering please stand and remain standing.

Dean Kempel on behalf of the Biosystems Engineering faculty, I am pleased to present these candidates to you for awarding of the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

(audience cheers) The candidates from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science will be presented by Dr. Christina Chan, Interim Chairperson of the department.

- Will the- Will the candidates, I'm sorry.

Will the candidates for the bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering please stand and remain standing.

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel on behalf of the Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering faculty, I am pleased to present to you these candidates for the awarding of the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

(audience cheers) The candidates from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will be presented by Dr. Pete Savolainen, Interim Chairperson of the department.

- Designers, builders, innovators.

Would the candidates for the bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering and Environmental Engineering please stand and remain standing.

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel on behalf of the faculty in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, I am honored to present these candidates for the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) The candidates from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will be presented by Dr. Abdol Esfahanian, chairperson of the department.

- Would candidate for bachelor degree in Computer Science and Computational Data Science please rise.

(audience roars) Dean Kempel these fantastic, hardworking candidates are ready to change the world for better.

On behalf of the Computer Science faculty, I present them to you for the awarding of their degree.

- Thank you.

(audience cheers) The candidates for the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will be presented by Dr. John Papapolymerou, Chairperson of the department.

- Okay.

Would candidates for the bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering and Electrical Engineering please stand and remain standing.

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, on behalf of the Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, I'm very pleased to present these amazing candidates to you for the awarding of the baccalaureate degrees.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) The candidates from the Department of Mechanical Engineering will be presented by Dr. Ranjan Mukherjee, Interim Chairperson of the department.

(audience applauds) - Would candidates for the bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering please stand and remain standing.

(audience roars) Dean Kempel, on behalf of the faculty of Mechanical Engineering, I'm pleased to present these candidates for conferral of the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) On behalf of the President who has delegated to her the authority of the State of Michigan vested in the Board of Trustees, I confer upon each of you the degrees in which you've been recommended with all rights and distinctions to which they entitle you.

According to custom, you may now move your tassels from the right side of your caps to the left.

Congratulations, MSU alumni.

(audience cheers) It's a good day.

Please be seated.

This act represents the conclusion of a great achievement and marks the beginning of a lifetime of dedicated service to your fellow men and women.

It's an achievement worthy of celebration and we are here this afternoon to celebrate the fact that more than 920 men and women have this semester completed the academic program of their choice in the College of Engineering.

(audience applauds) Before moving forward, I'd like to take a moment to recognize a young man who's not with us to celebrate today.

Benjamin Kable was a senior in the Electrical Engineering program.

He passed away in January.

He was just a few semesters away from earning his degree and MSU Engineering was an important part of his life.

I'd like to invite his sister, Sarah Kable to come forward to accept the degree on his behalf and ask Dr. John Papapolymerou to join me.

(audience applauds) (audience applauds) At this time, the new graduates will be escorted to the stage by their academic advisors.

Would the advisors please stand and be recognized as I call their names.

Erica Weeks, Director of Academic Advising.

Lindsay Naylor, Assistant Director of Academic Advising.

(audience cheers) Jeffrey Tsang, Assistant Director of Academic Advising, Sharita Williamson, Assistant Director of Academic Advising.

(audience cheers) John Denny, Margo Glew, Gaile Griffore, (audience roars) Liz Kubias, Billy Massey, and Christina Snyder.

The students will be introduced by Dr. Mark Beshore and Dr.- and Mr. Jamie Paisley from WKAR Broadcasting Services as they walk across the stage to receive their token diploma.

Students who attain a grade point average between 3.95 and 4.0, that's not much of a gap is there, are awarded University High Honor.

University Honor is awarded the students who've earned a grade point average between 8- 3.81 and 3.94.

A little more of a gap there.

These honors are designated by the gold cord added to the academic robes.

Please keep your individual applause brief, so the names of each of our graduates can be heard by all.

Would the graduates from the Applied Engineering Sciences major please come forward.

(audience applauds) - From Applied Engineering Sciences, Alexandra Beger - [Dean] You're first.

Congratulations.

- Justin Scott Dennis Whitaker Anthony Gurizzian Alex Depue Lukas Jason Bronold Mitchell Payne Ryan Berger Matthew Segall Isabella Rodrigues Nathan Harville Zachary Samp Maryam Esho Ian McMaster Ryan Morgott Adjoni Kirkland Matthew Hanna Samarth Goyal Vivek Gutet Mikayla Norton Caleb Sobie Brendan Kennedy Leah Hubbard Diana Maciorowska Grant Treder Michael Cianci Zach Clark Ryan Christian Jarl Kaitlin Collins Patricia Lare Gillian Parshall Cassidee Centilli Winston Stanford II Morgan Kravitz Sarah Fitzpatrick Kaelynn Moak Emma Borowski Elizabeth LaRochelle Emily Hart Madeline Sackman Peter Jacobsen Kyler Brown Genevieve St. Onge Jon Kochensparger Brandon Flaherty Mario Kezi Justin Gauthier Rani Jirjees Deron Bilezikjian Mike Miller Cato Ruiz Veronica Olivares Toan Tran London McMurray Lillian Jones Jacob Johnson Jessica Fox Fardowsa Omar Mrwa Abu-Haltam Shams Ezz Brett Leufgen Anjay Yaple Justin Tiburcio - Take half step to the left.

Half step to the left a little bit.

Lauren Barksdale Adriana Monet Jones Andrew Hansen-McClellan Tuan Hoang Benjamin Bowles Marshall Isaacs Haleigh Catherine Herman Mackenzie Hoecherl Malcolm Pizzimenti Aim Ratanavara Jackson Hamm Kaitlyn Ristic Nathaniel Spadafore Yanet Mena Jacob Peery Erin Prieskorn Jared Stross Riley Brownell Brandon Barrows Anna Brandl Joshua Smith Derek Lopez-Herrera Adam Bailey Neel Patel Devyn Garner From Civil Engineering Christopher Bitz Afiq Izzuddin Bin Wai Anton Raykovich Brandon Ray Kettenbeil Ethan Conlan Maxwell Julien Jax Plumert Joseph Stanley Dec Matt Keyes Jacob Fenech Andrew Webster Brennan Sollenberger Logan Pinger Anthony Bennett Josiah Spaulding Claire Van Gilder Evan Campau Paul Durante Lawrence Aldaoud Seba Aldhamen Olivia Elgazar Lauren Doer Lindsey Gawthrop Brandon Strickland Liam Drake Murphy Javier Urrea Mathias Dahl Nicholas Anthony Ardelean Julia Bove Sydney Janssen Rachel Peters Richard Carbajal Trinity Glover Angel Jaime Mian Wei Brandy Lopez Kobe Ferguson Aiden Niyontsinzi Patrick Hoya.

Martin Dennis Lonny Charlie Harmsen Carlin Zahalsky Jack Bohl Alex Ploehn Mike Young Tyler Joshua Sladick Michael Toeppner Logan McCall Cameron Wirth Benjamin Champine Jared Arnett Collin Young Nathan Maher Joseph Bazwinka Conor Crysler Will Flynn.

Sean Parsa Sabos Gutierrez Gonzalez Roland Ingram Isabella Corinne Sio - From Environmental Engineering: Brian Merle Reid Gwyn Zhiying Ou Shriya Deshmukh Lindsey Elspeth May Allison Gustafson Jacklyn Garavaglia Erik Hopkins Joshua Gleason Sarah Anderson Emily Davis Andrea Vera Shane Eric McHugh Matthew Saberski Emily Kerr Jordan Pack Donald Jasurda Taylor Higgins Holly Grow Olivia Sutherland Varun Vallury Jade Arundell Eric Schulte.

From the Department of Materials Science Engineering: Seth Bacon Martin Mastrangelo Lily Martin Lucas Rakieten Lindsay Reiss Cassidy Proctor Syn Han Chua Ryan Spitzley Seth Ramonaitis Emma Ainsworth Lizette Ann Mina Bonnie Stolt Xiaobo Wang Scott Castor Jacob Grobbel Thomas Degrove - From the Department of Chemical Engineering: Joshua Krueger Noelle Alice Kurien Clare Henry Alexis Chuong Karissa Gregurash Annabelle Pattillo Harrison Jones Claire Alexander Gillian Srebinski Alexa Jensen Abby Marshall Victoria Kuzmanovski Nou Gee Yang Connor Jay Zagumny Madison Melby Julia Mascarenhas Yonis Mohamed Ahmed Salah Michael Ebosi Lillian Marie Centlivre Abigail Hurst Kalee Southwell Allison Morgan Uckele Anh Phuong Trinh Eunice Xu Sarah Judis Morgan Gooden Mary Williams Sarah Tesfa Isabella Sann-Aung Evan Haag Brian Palmer Payton Stark Brett Don Thomas Cesar Michael Mullaney Roberts Samantha Theresia Rubrich Braden Jeffery Roberts John Locke Halie Harris Alexandra Winslow Kurt Holderness Ethan Wanous Chase Every Kai Lau Brendan Richard Jungwirth Mason Miller Austin Grake Carrie Hollingshead Cody Hollingshead Brandon Le Justin Zora Hunter Armbrustmacher Tiana Cucuz Jack McCormick Byoung Soo Kang Tyler Harvey Ryan Romaya Caleb Andrew Wagaman Bradley Sparks Aaron Klonowski Kameron Peazel Jack Knapp Harrison Ameel Ryan Tumas Marcus Bonkowski Caleb Clark Maximilian Alexander Ziesel Samantha Berman Amanda Lee Cecelia Shallal Blake Smerigan Nathaniel VanDeWeert Nicholas Tafelski Keith Andrew Taylor Matthew Gach Benjamin Laubach James Van Antwerp Ashley Lauren Maloney Gregory Hilpert Sophia Dalby Jack Sullivan Benjamin Nelson Kody Haley Kaden Montpas Grace Finazzo Jacob Lavalley Aaron Picard Joseph Vajda Catie Scott Sophia Vanderweele Sophie Vanderweele Ryan Ingersoll Cooper Rossio Camden Mills Alejandro Gomez Rana El Ladki Leila Mwangi Samantha Lynn Krolewski Okay.

- From the Department of Computer Engineering: Samuel Polym Daniel McDermott Michael Jamil Muhammad Alec Said Adam Sloan John Marvin Schafer Garrett Feinauer Francis Kasmikha Ryan Young Patrick W. Bourke Collin Faeth Nicklas Krause Charley Akers Harry Cowan Gabrielle Ann Lovett Sean Elworth Letian Shi Kavi Balfour (indistinct) Keaton James Mulcahy Basher Ghaleb Abbas Akhdar Mehdi Al Safar Tara Younessi Brooke Osterkamp Dennis Hamilton.

From the Department of Electrical Engineering: Carter Mayfield Henry Menigoz Mitchell Legrave Jonathan Sparks Erin McAlinden Hana Yantus Mason Rice Jason Clark Garrett VanGilder Bennett Meissner Michael Stevenson Gavin Gardner Lucas Hendershot Leo Crepeau Ahmed Mohamed Shoble Malachi Keener Nicholas Apap Samuel Gilliam Kyle Christopher Heverly James Kervin Aidan Monroe Alison Otis Emma Stanavich Umar Hassan Benny La John Paul Hanna Prince Acho Funwie Joseph Arthur Kieta Bret Williams Tommy Nguyen Alex Dubinski Surya Saravanakumar Haradeshwar Gondara Aidan Fadool Hunter Gendregske Andrew Merriman Kyle Heslop Ethan Galdikas Shashank Gowda Andrew Maciejewski Riley Lawson Fong Huang Mitchell Youngerman Samuel Evans Jack Wegh Yuxiang Su Andrei Dogariu Devansh Rohit Markan Jacob Ryba Pradnya Ghorpade Karson Mientkiewicz Andrew Fondaw Kyle Gregory Neid Brian Alder Maximus Sese Ryan Alexander Mozariwskyj Kyle Bandes Andy Tom Gautham Kanakasabai Mason Gates Brandon Cherry Chris Baker Maryann Kukla Byungchan Go Zhuofan Hu Yan Yang Sibo Peng Mohamed Saleh Chapin Ramseyer Alihelmael Aviles Sanchez Matthew Rapala Blake Evans Fariz Aram Azam Madeline Stafford Patrick Bates.

Cosmos Gyamfi Kyle Lawson Ahmad Ahmad Nizam Derek Luzano Jose Garcia-Jimenez Mohammed Hadeer Nasir Abdullah Soofi Hamdan Alsaif Howard (indistinct) Hu DaQuan Fitzgerald Kye McClean Jack Vezmar Parfait Iradukunda Kevin Andrew Chen Michael Leon Scruggs Jr. Jorge Penalozano Conner Graham.

From the Department of Mechanical Engineering: Vaibhav Himthani Richard Lin Kevin Upcott Wade Varney Nicholas Lauinger Jacob Cufaro Jacob Huskin Thomas McGowan Brittany Bush Sean Lickfold Benjamin Finkbeiner Thomas Wierzbicki Connor Trask Haosen Sun Siyuan Zhang Dawu Liu Ryan Pawlowski Joe Watza Rachel Paul Nick Dodge Showgo Yoshida Eui-June Shim Jake Rutkowski Michael Strong Zaid Almodhi Al Aiyash David Kwok Lucas Russell Jyotiraditya Chavan Matthew Lipscomb Justin Miller Olivia Lage Stephen Tamboer Minh Nguyen Thanh Mai Van Tuan Kiet Duong Jaclyn Rose Duff Beth Caldwell Emily Kay Peterson Nathan Evan Wright James David Tane Taney Artik Chowdhury Terai Sharud Lumbai Sarthak Gupta Nolan Houghteling Ciara Leigh Regan-Moore Dylan Gumbinger Samuel Jenkins Nathan Phelps Andrew Culver Jessica Ray Joe Nelson Jon Droste Kyle Hellems Takumi Benson Sarvesh Subramanian Aidan Dettweiler Jake Stanesa Aaron Humphries-Dolnick Zhe Liu Jacob Cristofori Anthony Pero Andrew Reddy Ryleigh Turner Aaron Julian Hopson Jonathan Jenkins Valentin Borjas Nathan Jansen Austin Tate David Knapp Nathan Kowalski Mark Zum Mallen Kyle Roland Ayaan Aman Rajabali Ravi Mody Brendan Doane Jihoon Song Jeffrey Li John Crippy Andres Mert Ozmete Jalen King Sohan Gupta Noah Shephard David Smith Connor Anderson Parker Hatherley Augusto Cucala Ricardo Paz Weber Zoe Quinn Kathleen Dewan Sophia Weitzel Ashley Bolt Adam Fox Jordan Piatek Noah Gilman Erin Denby Kylie Kuskowski Ross Davis Mitchell Essenmacher Eric Douglas Gus Tsalas Matthew Price Andrew Flight Mickey Atnafe David Olawale Eyob Mamo Lukasz Morales Waabe Damboba Sepehr Hosseinkhani Matthew Candela William Cilia Parker Grover Cole Treece Kyle Pawlowski Arianna Finn Garrett Colasinski Nicholas Coubard Joey Rheaume Faith Call Dylan Huck Noah Moyer Ryan Bartlett Srikeerthi Kothapally Anjali Patel Frank Rhoades Jack Beison Erin Chynoweth Valentina Vargas Jack Salisbury Jack Girling Jack Robert Konitsney Joe Kouchoukos Matt Phelan Scott Fingeroth Calum Walton Noah Goldman Olivia Reyes Bashhar Byrouthy Hailey Kelley Switch.

Let's switch.

Let's switch now.

- Augustus Scheier Evan Backer Kevin Roche Min Kai Thin Paul Williamson Zachary Carpenter Brady O'Shea Jacob Rupprecht Wil Jozwiak Ryan Bolio Zachary Lang Evan Petersen Christian Giggy Connor Witham Nicholas Sarver Najmi Rahim Zihan Zhang Alexandra Iorga Connor Cadieux Austin Shepp Jericho Don Herblet Ryan-Cristofer Curamen Jacob Keller Patrick Mullaly Jonathan Elias Nathan Kramer Thomas Burgess Peter David Olszewski Edmond Hashem Brett Earnest Logan Wells David LeVasseur Mitchell Semeyn Connor Michel Shane Beers Xiaoqiu An Kush Patel Kush.

Cole Lutkenhoff Zachary Kranstz Christian Jaraczewski John Klein Paxton Angliss Faizan Malik.

Computational Data Science Harshan Ramakrishnan Brian Kim Noor Al Haidari Manar Asheef Saiyad John Okoniewski Jason Nitkiewicz David VanderSloot Alexis Diana Morse Mary Andrews Griffin Frendo Harriet Pimentel.

Adam Campbell Dec Simon Vedder Jack Nugent Amber Agusti.

From Computer Science and Engineering: Shoimya Chowdhury Drew Markel Kenny Mei Veeresh Rajendran William Long Dominic Fetzer Mazza Max Brownbach Justin King Anthony Kovari Lily Albitar Hemkesh Agrawal Michael Umanskiy Daniel Magaway Albert Crooks Chu Yan Caroline Gormely Anna Parkinson Sonya Moozhayil Lydia Wibbelman Samantha Sebestyen Olivia Sheng Qiu Aidan O'Rourke Ettore Campriani Aidan McCoy Kishore Sirigiri Justin Henkelman Santiago Rodriguez Papa Dean Eggenberger Jacob Zawacki Romario Rranza Randy Carnahan Jr. Puyu Cai Bingze Lin Melody Buado Gabrielle Dauphinee Lucas Wilkerson Michael Gabriel Schester Kirsten Gross Michael Stanley Ricardo Paz Joshua Jacob Jonathan Kippe Karan Singh Dylan McCarroll James Demetris Aidan Erickson Muhan Luo Carlo Barths Jiayue Chai Jiahui Hu Treasure Ogundiran Tukonaso Timothy Onze Judy Efendi Alexandra Case Alexa Kelley Sarah Palmer Michael Anthony Monticciolo Arif Zatoon Brylee Pavlik Joe Romain Robert Francis IV Naveen Kumanan Matthew Norris Hui Chen Sung Casey Steronic Ethan Strain Ryan Dukovich Dongyu Lyu Hunter Gabriel Samoy Hui Yang Yin Joseph Day Gage Hohwart Joshua Ilkka Gram Boyle Aidan Lane Michael Sobieski Noah O'Bryan Nate Bollman Craig Smith Daryn Dratt Dylan Burke Austin Leblanc Jack Robert Cruz Tom Choi Collin Cole Simon Harmata Jude Patrick Walsh Michael Montgomery Anthony Eid Jonathan Yamashita Maxwell Lu Daniel Nguyen Ashirvad (indistinct) Preston Harrell Clarence Nanamori Alexis Tochiki Drew Hubble Ethan Yang Jannik Eisenlohr Alexander French Rodrigo Gonzalez Drew White Reid Harry Rachel Townson Gabriel Misajlovski Michael Burkett Matthew Burkett Thaddaeus Greiner Emmanuel Marudo - Once.

One Sec.

Switch or?

Oh, okay.

- Joseph Chen Tyler Higashi Thalia Sakowicz Samuel Robert Hus Jay Hu Han Bao Nguyen Marvin Zurek III Owen Evey Matt Anikiej Mike Walton Zach Joyce Nafshiyat Nihal Sean Kelly Timothy Meyer Grant Carey Yu Chen Jackson Haugen Josie Beach Zachary Garrett Kyle Soderlund Dorian Antonio Smalley Stanley Duru Lama Alqrni Andrew Hou Neel Warich Nhat Vong Thinh Nguyen Toluwa Fashina Jonathan Ayoub Ian Berriel Nicholas Klein Kevin Meehan Ian Byram Tyler Nichols David Levy Khankin Aaron Jonckheere Zhenhao Zhao Savi Barnes Qilong Feng Matthew McDerment Anurag Kompalli Eshan Dixit Matthew DiRisio Adam Kasumovic Tanawan Premsri Devin Masiak Baraa Hegazy Nick Filerman Thomas Ladouceur Ryan Michael Doty Christopher Cardimen Elie Tom Shangyang Min Zhuofan Zeng Carson Honkala Byzjon Santiago Speights Tyler White Charles Kellogg Robert Morton Sam Kwiatkowski-Martin Abigail Grace Peterson Mary McLaughlin Nicholas Ly Adam Anderson Faran Meshinchi Dorian Florescu Rashad Abada Satvik Ravipati Catherine Xu Samantha Kissel Nicholas Wang Wenrui Li Riketo Takei Will Kelly III Kaezar Leonard Zongyuan Li Srijith Venkateshwaran Akhil Tatineni Rita Mokashi Ria Mokashi Rithvik Pennepalli Aesha Ray Sara Ismail Cole Harrington Coughlin Ben Lynch Avi Lochab - Okay.

- Let's shoot.

- Bailey Bakerson - Joshua Erno Vishnu Bhupathiraju Aryan Verma Abhiram Penmethsa Hargun Atwal Richard Horan A. J. Bensman Matthew Baxter Akshit Bansal (name unclear) Raj Bajaj Shubham Chandna Ashrey Gupta Varun Redex Reddy Daniel Passos Ayaan Shaik Keerthi Gogineni Nandini Tengli Tate Moorhouse Christian Rica Jason Emmy Marco Suriano Kurt Leblanc William Joseph Wyrick Muhammad Huwio Yanjia Zhu From the Department of Biosystems Engineering.

John Grivins Ryan Danaj Andrew Kearney Jarod Williams Savana Bellows Christina Michelle Abel Gregory Rouland Aaron Newberry Xiaoheng Lyu Yangcheng Gao Grant Gmitter Benjamin Alexander Mary Borowski Emeline Pioch Claire Kolar Robert Gurecki Kevin Mozel Andres Lanzas Alec Christy Ali Ahmad Christina Berels Jordyn Gerdes Hannah Gruber Anna Burgess Emily Hamilton Megan Baechle Ryan Eberline Grace Dempsey Mitchell Wojtowicz Marshall Humphrey Chance Poulos Jake Willsea Emma Jane Gorr Allison Smith Kaitlyn Dailey Lauren Falzarano Kaitlyn Jensen Reema Patel Ava Borri Kate Mann Madison Pritchett Rachel Lewallen Megan Alexandra Mancina Alexandra Renee Szurna and Arun Kammanadiminti.

(audience cheers and stomps feet) - Okay.

Congratulations to all our graduates.

(audience cheers) There's a large group of individuals who contributed with their love, their understanding, and their financial support to the achievements that we recognize today.

Accordingly, we ask that all members of the immediate families of the graduates to rise and give us all an opportunity to express our thanks and appreciation.

(audience applauds) Come on, parents.

There are other members of the college leadership team have not been formally recognized.

Would they please stand as I introduce them?

Dr. Tom Voice is the Senior Associate Dean.

(audience applauds) Dr. Tammy Bush is the Associate Dean for Inclusion and Diversity.

(audience applauds) Mr. Kyle Foster is with the Assistant Dean for Inclusion and Diversity.

(audience applauds) I'd also like to induce a very important group of people who've had the ultimate responsibility for the education that you've received.

Would representatives of the Faculty of the College of Engineering rise and accept our gratitude.

(audience cheers) Please join us in singing the Alma Mater "MSU Shadows".

The MSU Symphony Band conducted by Henry Dorn will accompany us.

(music begins) ♪ M.S.U., We love thy shadows ♪ ♪ When twilight silence falls ♪ ♪ Flushing deep and softly paling ♪ ♪ O'er ivy-covered hall ♪ ♪ Beneath the pines we'll gather ♪ ♪ To give our faith so true ♪ ♪ Sing our love for Alma Mater ♪ ♪ And thy praises, M S U ♪ (audience cheers) - [Audience Member] Go Green!

- [Audience] Go White!

- [Audience Member] Go Green!

- [Audience] Go White!

- [Audience Member] Go Green!

- [Audience] Go White!

- [Audience Member] Go Green!

- [Audience] Go White!

- Please be seated.

I would like to thank Mark Beshore and Jamie Paisley, WKAR Radio for reading the graduates names.

I'd also like to thank Andrea Cleaver for providing a realtime captioning of today's ceremony.

(audience cheers) Please remain seated while the platform party and the faculty leave the arena.

Once the platform party has left, please remain your seats for one additional special number from the MSU Symphony Band in honor of our graduates.

After their sessional families and friends may meet their graduate on the ground level.

To our graduates, we're extremely proud of all of you completing your work here today.

We know that you will accomplish great deeds in the future, and we want to hear from you often.

The best to all of you, and ... Go green!

- [Audience] Go White!

(Symphonic Band plays recessional) ♪ Go right thru' for MSU ♪ ♪ Watch the points keep growing ♪ ♪ Spartan teams are bound to win ♪ ♪ They're fighting with a vim ♪ ♪ RAH RAH RAH ♪ ♪ See their team is weakening ♪ ♪ We're going to win this game ♪ ♪ Fight Fight Rah Team, Fight ♪ ♪ Victory for MSU ♪