Completing a adventure that began 17 years ago, if he was a 13-year-old immigrant from Mexico, Ruben Salvador of Guadalupe, CA, will accept his Bachelor of Science amount at in Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara this Saturday at 1:00.
Santa Barbara, CA (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 11, 2009 -- Completing a adventure that began 17 years ago, if he was a 13-year-old immigrant from Mexico, Ruben Salvador of Guadalupe, CA, will accept his Bachelor of Science amount at in Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara this Saturday at 1:00. That adventure was abounding with roadblocks and obstacles alien to his peers.
Ruben Salvador, Recipient of UCSB's Whitted Award
Salvador immigrated to the United States from Mexico City with two of his sisters, ages 15 and 17, to accumulate with their parents. Once here, he began alive in the fields as a laborer, acceptable one of the primary allowance earners in his household. In top school, he approved a affection for acquirements and began absent of a academy education. Upon graduation, he enrolled at Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, but because of his responsibilities to his family, he connected to plan full-time, accessory academy if he could. After eight years, he had becoming 5 assembly degrees: engineering, math, physics, chemistry, and advanced arts.
In 2005, the acutely motivated apprentice was accepted to UCSB's College of Engineering. Because he wasn't acceptable for banking aid of any kind, he connected alive in Santa Maria and commuted to UCSB. During his aboriginal quarter, he formed continued hours on the weekends and in the evenings. Often, he slept in his car achieve abreast campus so he could accomplish it to chic after the added commute. Eventually, however, the accent of this agenda took its toll, and he withdrew from the university.
Salvador after accomplished abiding address status, which accustomed him to administer for banking aid. In bounce 2006, he abdicate his job and alternate to campus, but afterwards two quarters, he afresh begin himself in bookish ache and was absolved from the university. Undeterred, he enrolled at Santa Barbara City College, area he auspiciously completed several communicable courses, and again enrolled in a summer affair at UCSB. He alternate to UCSB as a full-time apprentice in abatement 2007.
He began alive as a apprentice agent in the Mathematics, Engineering, and Sciences Achievement (MESA) program, area he helped alike bounded and bounded Science and Technology/MESA Days, and alternate on beat panels to underrepresented inferior top and top academy students. Empowered by his success in this endeavor, he approved out campus resources, connected to accomplish bookish success, and served as a algebraic and science babysitter to a baby accumulation of students.
Because of his brave abstinence in attaining his degree, Salvador has been accustomed with UCSB's Alyce Marita Whitted Memorial Award, which recognizes a non-traditional student's endurance, persistence, and adventuresomeness in the face of amazing challenges while advancing an bookish degree. The Whitted Award is one of the university's highest.
After graduation, Salvador's agenda will abide to be abounding and demanding: He'll be alive through the summer for the MESA program; confined as a coach to the Santa Barbara Team in Training for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; belief for the Fundamentals of Engineering assay (the aboriginal of two examinations appropriate for licensure as a Professional Engineer); and advancing a career in electrical engineering in the Santa Barbara area.
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