Matthew Campbell is a 2013 Juneau-Douglas High School graduate who will be graduating with a civil engineering and honors degree with a music minor from Montana State University this December. Matthew was just chosen as the Montana State University’s most outstanding senior engineering student for the entire engineering department, being awarded the Gold Medal Award by the Montana Society of Engineers.
Each year for nearly 100 years, the MSE has worked with the Montana State University College of Engineering to provide the Gold Medal Award to an outstanding graduating engineering senior.
Each spring the College of Engineering requests that departments submit one nomination from each engineering discipline. Early in March, a memo goes out to the Engineering and Science Faculty asking for nomination of qualified engineering students selected on the basis of integrity, scholarship and professional engineering promise.
A college selection committee, comprised of faculty, staff, and students, reviews all of the nominations submitted and selects three finalists. Members of the Montana Society of Engineers then interview the finalists to select the winner.
The criteria used to select outstanding seniors are distinguished academic record, involvement in extracurricular activities, leadership in extracurricular activities, commitment to the practical use of the sciences in the execution of engineering work and promise of service to their profession with integrity, devotion to high standards, and a sense of obligation to humanity.
