Airplanes and flight have always fascinated Tanvir Mahmud Saurav. Growing up near Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, the sight and roar of jet airplanes were impossible to ignore. Now, after completing his BS in mechanical engineering, the President’s Scholar and member of the Temple University Honors Program intends to pursue a PhD in mechanical engineering at Temple University. His ultimate goal: to teach at a university while conducting aerospace research. What’s mechanical engineering got to do with flight? Everything, says Saurav, notin...

As a high school senior in western Massachusetts, Victoria Dutille had three goals: to play Division I soccer, earn an engineering degree and serve her local college community. Missions accomplished. At Temple, Dutille was: • a four-year scholarship athlete with the Owls’ women’s soccer team  • a member of the College of Engineering Honors Program who, in May, will receive her BS degree in civil engineering with a concentration in environmental engineering • a leader of Athletes Intervarsity, a Christian fellowship and Bible study group for Temple athletes, and an org...