Mechanical Engineer Selected as UW Gold Candidate

October 7. 2009 -

Lori Sandberg from Albin, Wyoming, has been selected as a UW Gold Semi-finalist. Lori is a mechanical engineering major in her senior year at UW. Top University of Wyoming students have been designated as candidates for UW Gold distinction, which replaces traditional Homecoming royalty. Unlike previous years, instead of six finalists there will be two winners and four runners-up.

The 11 UW Gold semifinalists will be presented and the winners will be announced at the Iron Skull Homecoming Sing, Thursday, Oct. 8, at 6 p.m. in the College of Arts and Sciences auditorium. The winners will ride in the Homecoming parade and be introduced at halftime during the UW-New Mexico football game Saturday, Oct. 10.

Students are nominated on the basis of continued success in academic studies, community service and leadership. The tradition is a way for leading students to be recognized by their peers, the university and the state. UW Gold is sponsored by Cardinal Key, the junior class honor society. 

Lori is a member of the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, Delta Delta Delta sorority, American Legion Auxiliary volunteer for fundraising and local programs, Golden Key International Honor Society member, and a member of the UW Mechanical Engineering team for NASA’s Great Moonbuggy Race National Design Competition. She served as an assistant/counselor for the Engineering Summer Program in 2007 and had the opportunity to work as a student researcher at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland this past summer where she assisted with cryogenic testing on window seal and thermal tri-support testing for space flight programs.

Congratulations Lori!