Clemson student recognized by Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Published: October 11, 2012

By Laura Hicks

CLEMSON — Clemson University graduate student Daniel Lind has received a STAR award from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE). The awards recognize key contributors in the Hispanic community in the fields of science, technology, math and engineering (STEM).

Lind, a native of Miami, attended the University of Miami, where he received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He studied at the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) in Greenville and received his master’s degree in automotive engineering from Clemson in August. He now is a STEM Fellow in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Graduate Fellowship program. 

“To be a recipient of a SHPE STAR award is an incredibly humbling honor," he said. "I am looking forward to such an accomplishment being only one of many that SHPE-CU earns as an organization.

“It has been an absolute privilege to play my part in spreading SHPE’s message to a new state and introducing students — many of whom didn’t know that there were other Latinos going through the same difficulties — to an extended SHPE family,” he said.

During his two years as a graduate student at CU-ICAR, Lind started a Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers chapter at Clemson. It was the first successful attempt at creating a SHPE chapter at Clemson in more than seven years.

The 2012 recipients of the 2012 STAR Awards will be recognized at this year's SHPE National Conference Nov. 14-18 in Fort Worth, Texas.

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