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ECE undergraduate student receives Microsoft scholarship

Recently, an undergraduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University was named a Microsoft scholarship recipient.
Shell Zhang, an international student from China, will receive the scholarship from Microsoft for the 2009-2010 school year.
“This is impressive considering we had applicants from all across North America,” said Rian Sammy Sacquitne, Microsoft recruiter. “Texas A&M should be proud of this accomplishment.”
Zhang currently is a junior in the department who transferred from Michigan Technical University a year ago. She is a co-chair for the engineering summer camp programs for the Society of Women Engineers A&M Chapter, and last summer she worked for Gentex Corporation as a project engineering intern. Her interest area is Artificial Intelligence and she hopes to go to graduate school doing research in a related field.
“I am very excited about winning the Microsoft scholarship,” Zhang said. “It's an acknowledgment of my passion and work on software technology; also it is a bit of financial relief for me.”