Prior to this spring’s graduations at Temple University, I wrote six web stories about successful graduating College of Engineering students and also profiled a successful graduating chemistry major from the College of Science and Technology.

I also wrote a story about the College of Engineering’s commencement speaker, Joseph C. McGinley, MD, PhD, the inventor of an innovative orthopaedic drill who earned four degrees from Temple, including BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering, his MD and his PhD in physiology.

The engineering student profiles included:

• Sarah Del Casale, who is simultaneously taking advantage of Temple’s accelerated master’s degree program to earn her master’s during the next year while working full time for AECOM, the country’s top-rated civil engineering design firm.
• Claire Durand, who will be pursing a master’s degree in electrical engineering at Columbia University; and
• Shaun George, a Dubai native who also is taking advantage of Temple’s 4-plus-1 master’s degree program to earn a graduate degree in bioengineering.

Finally, for the College of Science and Technology I also profiled new graduate Kyle Knouse, an already published organic chemistry student who is heading west to pursue his PhD at the prestigious Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California.