(upbeat orchestral music) (audience murmuring) - Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

My name is Leo Kempel, dean of the College of Engineering.

As we get underway this afternoon, we ask that you join our graduates and faculty in the singing of the "Star Spangled Banner".

Mr. Charles Dunn, chemical engineering graduate, will lead the singing, (audience cheers) and he requested you join him and sing with enthusiasm.

Charles is from Clarkson, Michigan, and would like to thank his mom, Molly McCoy, and the rest of his family for being here today.

Would you all please stand and face the American flag?

Gentlemen, please remove your hats.

♪ O, say, can you see ♪ ♪ By the dawn's early light ♪ ♪ What so proudly we hailed ♪ ♪ At the twilight's last gleaming ♪ ♪ Whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ Through the perilous fight ♪ ♪ O'er the ramparts we watched ♪ ♪ Were so gallantly streaming ♪ ♪ And the rockets' red glare ♪ ♪ The bombs bursting in air ♪ ♪ Gave proof through the night ♪ ♪ That our flag was still there ♪ ♪ O, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ O for the land of the free ♪ ♪ And the home of the brave ♪ (audience cheers) Thank you and please be seated.

I'd like to welcome everyone to this very special ceremony, where we pay tribute to those who have successfully completed the requirements for a bachelor's degree in engineering, to alumni, faculty and friends receiving special recognition for their outstanding career achievements.

This is a joyous but solemn occasion.

Out of respect for those speaking and those being recognized, I ask you to hold your applause and celebration until the end of each segment of the program.

You're also reminded to please silence your cell phones.

I also request that when we get to the recognition of individual graduates, you remain in your seats to hear the names of all the students crossing our stage today.

We are pleased to have with us today the honorable Brianna T. Scott of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees.

I'd like to give her a moment to share her welcome and to introduce any fellow trustees.

Trustee Scott.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Dean Kempel.

On behalf of the MSU Board of Trustees, I welcome all graduates, family and friends who are with us at this afternoon's undergraduate commencement.

Under the Michigan Constitution, the board of trustees is the governing body of the university by whose authority degrees are awarded.

Today's ceremony represents a culmination of discipline, intellectual work, and creative imagination, certainly no small accomplishment.

For many of you and your families here today, the sacrifices have been long and great.

The degree that you've earned acknowledges your success and honors those who have encouraged it.

Our wish is that you will always be leaders who generously use your intelligence and your knowledge to improve the quality of life for your community, to advance the common good and to renew hope in the human spirit.

Our faculty, the administrators, and the MSU Board of Trustees are all very proud of you.

Please accept our warmest congratulations and best wishes.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Trustee Scott.

I would like to now ask a member of the 2024 graduating class to reflect on her engineering undergraduate experience.

I'm pleased to announce, to introduce Ms. Ashlin Riggs, computational data science graduate, who was selected by the faculty and the engineering student council to provide the student address.

Ashlin's from Saline, Michigan, and would like to thank her parents, David and Melissa Riggs, as well as the rest of her family for supporting her here today.

Ashlin.

(audience cheers) - Thank you, Dean Kempel.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to my fellow graduates, our faculty, distinguished guests, visiting family and Trustee Scott from our board of trustees.

Thank you all for your attendance today and for supporting our spring 2024 class.

Now, let me slip into something a little more comfortable.

I must start today with an obligatory go green.

- Go white.

- Go white.

- As I stand here and stare at the next generation of Spartan Engineers, I see the builders, keepers and leaders of our future society.

Like me, I am sure several of you received cards from your grandparents, aunts and uncles inscribed with "I remember when you graduated from kindergarten.

Time flies," and, like me, I am sure you are finally beginning to understand exactly how quickly time does fly when you are having fun.

Now, as Spartan Engineers, I'm sure that many of us have a different definition of fun compared to most other students, however, as we reflect back on our time at Michigan State on our Saturday morning tailgates, our midnight screams, our Spartans runs, we can agree that it was a pretty good time.

Speaking of time, many of us in our green gowns today were born in the 21st century, the new millennium.

Today, life is longer than ever before.

Several of you seated in front of me will live to be centenarians, living to be over 100 years old.

That is several generations contained in one lifetime, but when we look back on how quickly these last four some odd years have flown by, perhaps 100 years really is not so long after all.

I do not say this to trigger a collective panic attack, but to remind us of the very real impacts of our time at MSU.

Many of us have job offers, grad school offers or at least a faint idea of what we will do for work after we leave this building today.

Many of us know what we will be when we grow up, Spartan Engineers of course, but besides what we want to be, what do we want our legacies to be?

Do we want to be leaders?

Do we want to be mentors, titans of our industries perhaps?

Do we want to be what so many others have been for us on our unique paths to graduation today?

Spartans, our paths toward these futures begin today.

An ancient Roman emperor, long forgotten to most of us in this room, although perhaps not to the history students who graduated yesterday, once said, "Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be, be one."

I invite you all to reflect on your freshman year once again.

As we look back, we realize how different many of us in this room are from our past selves.

One of my favorite phrases, to be loved is to be transformed, resonates with me strongly.

Many of us found true love, true friendship, true mentorship here at state.

The people closest to us have shaped our lives in ways we will not be able to fully appreciate or understand until long after we leave the Breslin today.

However, nothing in life is an accident.

We as Spartan Engineers have made several calculated decisions to end up in this room today.

Perhaps we chose to join Lego Robotics Club in elementary school, and that triggered a love of mechanics, perhaps we chose Science Olympiad and AP calculus over soccer and French.

Myself, I overheard a teacher saying that only six female students had enrolled in my high school's AP Computer Science course.

I changed my next year's schedule that very day.

Four years, perhaps four new groups of friends, perhaps four new majors, may we reflect again.

Time flies when you are having fun.

None of us in this room remained stagnant for our four years here in East Lansing.

We have grown as students, as friends, as sons and daughters and as Spartans, and whether we knew it or not, that was always the plan.

We did not stumble upon our caps and gowns today.

We were chosen because we represent what it means to be a Spartan.

We are resilient, savvy, intelligent, and we get results, period.

Take what you have accomplished here and use it as fuel for your next steps.

Know that with what you have accomplished here in these four short, long, blink of an eye, long as a lifetime years, you are prepared for greatness.

With a little work, a little motivation, a little support from your fellow Spartans, you will be exactly what you want to be when you grow up because growing up does not stop when you cross that stage today, and time will never stop flying as long as you're having fun.

Go green.

- Go white.

(audience cheers) - Thank you, Ashlin, for your thoughtful comments on behalf of all engineering graduates.

Turning to our award and recognition part of the program, we begin with the Claud R. Erickson Distinguished Alumnus Award.

This award is given annually to a graduate of the College of Engineering who has attained the highest level of professional accomplishment, provided distinguished and meritorious service to the college and the engineering profession, and engaged in voluntary service at the local, state, national or international level.

The award is named for Claude Erickson who received four engineering degrees from MSU, beginning with the Bachelor of Science in 1922.

He also qualified to study, he studied law and was qualified to practice before the United States Supreme Court.

Continuing in the same spirit which Claude lived his life, we gather here today to honor another distinguished alumna and add her to the list of those the college holds forth as examples for our graduates.

I'm pleased to introduce Cindy Westerhof, chair of the engineering alumni board who will introduce this year's recipient.

Cindy.

(audience applauds) - Thank you, Leo.

As the chair of the College of Engineering Alumni Board, it is my distinct honor and privilege to congratulate the upcoming, all of you graduates, and welcome you to the alumni family.

We are so proud of your accomplishments and look forward to your continued contact with the college and with MSU.

It is now my pleasure to introduce the recipient of the 2024 Claude R. Erickson Distinguished Alumni Award, Rachel S. Hutter.

(audience applauds) Rachel is the EVP and head of studio operations for the Walt Disney Studios.

She's a licensed professional engineer and certified safety professional.

She graduated from MSU with a degree in electrical engineering and a concentration in theater, so it's very fitting that she is where she is today.

After serving in roles at the VA, General Motors, General Mills, and Rockwell Automation, Rachel joined Disney in 1997.

She has worked in many different roles throughout Disney, including being part of the team that built and opened Animal Kingdom, yay, leading the teams responsible for ensuring the safety, operability and maintainability of Disney resorts around the world and designing and patenting a ride safety system used worldwide at Disney.

Rachel is a member of the Society of Women Engineers and speaks regularly about the importance of women in STEM.

She has maintained a strong and continued involvement with the MSU College of Engineering, and we look forward to many more years of the same.

Please congratulate my friend, Rachel.

(audience applauds) - Dean Kempel, esteemed faculty, proud parents, and a few short minutes from now, Spartan Engineers.

(Rachel applauds) (audience applauds) Congratulations.

A little over three decades ago, I was on the receiving end of an MSU commencement address.

Excited, yet vaguely terrified that someone would realize I've forgotten a class and couldn't really graduate, but I did graduate totally legit because I'm certain Leo had someone look that up before allowing me to speak.

And, class of 2024, I also wanna put your mind at ease about one other thing.

As a licensed engineer with experience in many diverse sectors, I can assure you that if, like me, you never really understood electromagnetic fields and waves, you can still have a great and satisfying career.

(audience laughs) Now, all the electrical engineers over there are giving me the stink eye, probably wondering how on earth I'm worthy to be your commencement speaker, especially since there are so many proud MSU alumni longing to share wisdom with you.

They have a point.

Countless people hold more patents and have more grants and white papers than I, but there is one thing I do better than anyone I know, and the older I get, the more I realize that it's more important than patents and white papers.

I love my job.

I don't mean the proud to have the title, can afford a nice house kind of love my job, I mean, well, you know the observation that no one ever says on their deathbed, "I wish I'd spent more time at work," I probably will, and while I love my family to the moon and back, not one of them will be surprised.

They know I'm that kind of engineer.

I love being an engineer.

I love the engineer mindset that tolerates opinion, but values fact.

We write our crudos on the truth of an XY-axis.

Engineers are problem solvers, and Spartan Engineers know that the problems most worth solving live at the intersection of goodwill and scientific knowledge.

That's because of something we rarely admit but all know, we yearn, all of us, for the great quest.

Money, celebrity, social media stardom, those aren't the kind of quests I'm talking.

I'm talking Luke harnessing the force to protect the resistance, Sulley, to find convention to power Monstropolis with laughter rather than screams, the Avengers, chasing the infinity stones across time and space to save humanity, Jojo Rabbit, denouncing the propaganda of hate and inspiring others to do the same, Jake and Neytiri, rallying the people and animals of Pandora to protect their world.

I'm sorry, I get carried away.

As I said, I love my job.

And these movies fire our imagination because each of those heroes use knowledge, passion, and creativity to help the world.

That is the greatest quest.

Spartan Engineers require that.

We are all heroes at heart.

Today I harness Spartan engineering power to bring the hero's journey to people around the world.

Disney has understood for 100 years that innovation lives at the intersection of creativity and technology, and I still see it every day in the storytelling worlds of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, Searchlight and 20th Century.

When I lived in Holden Hall, I had a four by eight sheet of plywood leaned up against the wall.

On one side I'd painted scenes from the Disney classic animated stories.

On the other side, I painted logos of all the major film studios.

When I was burning the midnight oil, that sheet of plywood was a tangible, touchable reminder of what I hoped to do with my degree.

I wasn't the only one.

A friend of mine studying agricultural engineering wanted to work for John Deere.

To keep him on quest, he kept a little matchbox tractor in his pocket.

Now that I think about it, his inspirational talisman was considerably more portable than mine.

No matter, finding that dream job is a highly personal quest.

Sulley couldn't have stopped Thanos, and the Avengers didn't save Monstropolis.

Finding your quest is a lifelong mission.

It isn't taught in a classroom, and there isn't a map.

Still, as the saying goes, when you know, you know.

Now, for those of you who do know, I would love to say that your dream and this degree are all you need to steer clear of every possible disappointment, mistake, and moment of discouragement.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

I've had all three in abundance, yet now that I can view these episodes as flashbacks instead of foreshadowing, I can tell you that they're necessary parts of the journey.

One of the most obscure classes I took at MSU was an elective called fantasy as theology.

In it we read Peter S. Beagle's classic, "The Last Unicorn," and he had this declaration, which I remember to this day, "Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

It's all part of the fairytale."

This class of 2024 has faced heartbreaking and unfair sorrows.

You lost classmates forever because of gun violence, you have shouldered colossal burdens, you were robbed of some of the joy of togetherness and collaboration due to COVID, and the polarization of society has attempted to take from you the curiosity and optimism that comes from listening thoughtfully to views other than your own.

All these things are part of it, part of the quest that has readied you to be heroes.

My advice as you continue your quest is this, lean into what's special about being a Spartan Engineer.

I would not be in this job that I love if not for fellow Spartans.

Case in point, when I first considered MSU, I lived in Chicago.

Out-of-state tuition was going to be staggering.

I also had the very real alternative of attending a military academy.

Let's pause just a moment to let all of the parents here think about that.

Door number one, your kid goes to a fantastic school and burns through all the money you had set aside for that lakehouse.

Door number two, your kid goes someplace most families cannot even dream about, is guaranteed a good job after graduation, and it's free.

Tuition fees, textbooks, room board, clothing, the works.

I was pretty sure I knew which way my dad was leaning.

Yet our first visit to MSU was magical.

The moment I set foot on campus, I knew this is where I would thrive.

I was born to be a Spartan.

To my amazement, my parents felt the same way.

My dad told me later that as I wandered the campus, students stopped at every turn to ask if they needed help or directions.

He said, "People are so helpful here.

I know that if you go here, people will look out for you."

They did.

They still do.

Being an engineer can open just about any door for you.

Having the spirit of a Spartan will get you a seat at the table.

I'm often asked how I planned my career, and the truth is there was no complex Machiavellian plan.

Today I have this ridiculously amazing dream job overwhelmingly because of one thing, fundamental Spartan helpfulness.

There were always problems others struggled with that my technical education allowed me to tackle.

That led to being invited to solve different and larger problems.

If I ever feel myself getting frustrated, I remind myself that this is part of the journey that I have chosen.

Now, this may not be what you expect to hear at the end of a celebratory speech, but I wish you lots of problems.

I want problems to present themselves to you, and I want you to seek them out because I know you have the skills and positivity to solve them.

Happily ever after comes later, for now, may you embark upon a quest of your own choosing, one packed with challenges and fulfillment.

Michigan State College of Engineering class of 2024 go be forever the heroes you have trained to be.

Go green.

- Go white.

- [Rachel] Thank you and congratulations.

(audience cheers) - Thank you, Rachel.

We're proud of your accomplishments as an outstanding Spartan Engineer, but as the person who teaches that electromagnetics fields class, I wanna remind you Luke has no light saber without fields.

(audience laughs) The College of Engineering has a long list of distinguished alumni graduating from each of our academic departments.

This year's recipients were honored at a formal dinner last evening, and we'd like to also recognize several of them at this ceremony as an example and inspiration to our new graduates.

Will the alumni Award winners please stand and accept our congratulations?

(Leo applauds) (audience applauds) Your achievements are an inspiration to all of us and a hallmark of everything MSU strives to achieve in its graduates.

Michigan State University is home to incredibly talented faculty, and those in the College of Engineering are no exception.

It's my pleasure to recognize faculty and staff who won the 2024 Withrow Teaching, Scholarship and Student Service Awards.

Through the generosity of Jack and Dorothea Withrow, we established awards for engineering faculty and staff to recognize outstanding teaching, scholarship, professional service and service to students.

Will the faculty and staff awardees please stand and accept our congratulations?

(Leo applauds) (audience applauds) On behalf of engineering students in the college, thank you for your excellence in teaching, research, professional service, and most of all, outstanding service to the students.

It's now my privilege to recognize the special accomplishments of graduates who have distinguished themselves with their outstanding academic achievement.

Benjamin Laubach please stand.

Benjamin is a graduate from chemical engineering and the Honors College and has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Congratulations, Benjamin.

(applauds) (audience applauds) Trustee Scott will now introduce the next group of students.

- I'm wondering, of the parents out there, as a mother of a recent Spartan Engineer, how many of us have tripped over Legos when our kids were young?

Can anybody relate to that?

(laughs) They're special.

We wish to pay tribute to the graduates who not only completed their academic programs successfully, but who have the distinction of having maintained the highest grade point averages in their class, thereby meriting the prestigious Board of Trustees' Award.

This semester, 32 engineering graduates earned 4.0 averages and were recipients of this reward.

As I read each of your names, please stand and remain standing, and I ask that the audience please withhold applause until all names have been read.

Jenni Aubin, mechanical engineering, Honors College, Ajuisiwon Azantilow, computer science, Honors College, Theodore Belecciu, chemical engineering, Honors College, Brendan Bushbaker, computer science, Kevin Cawley, computer engineering, Honors College, Colin Davidson, computer science, Honors College, David Evans, electrical engineering, Honors College, Nicholas Fedewa, electrical engineering, Honors College, James Fordyce, mechanical engineering, Nicole Gibbons, mechanical engineering, Benjamin Griffith, electrical engineering, Honors College, Justin Hamlin, chemical engineering, Honors College, Evan Hampel, mechanical engineering, Honors College, Eli Hilborn, electrical engineering, College Of engineering, music performance, College Of Music, Honors College, Kara Kieras, applied engineering systems, Honors College, Edison Lewis, material science and engineering, College Of Engineering, Chinese-College of Arts and Letters, Honors College, Felix Liang, computer science, Aaron Masacek, civil engineering, Honors College, - Whoo.

- [Brianna] Amjad Mashmoushi, chemical engineering, Honors College, Andrew Nolan, applied engineering sciences, Honors College, Vedi Patel, mechanical engineering, Honors College, Lillia Patrick, environmental engineering, Olivia Pauls, civil engineering, Lauren Petrie, chemical engineering, Sara Purdue, mechanical engineering, Honors College, Mason Razz, chemical engineering, Juan Sabogal Olarte, computer science, Honors College, Nikita Shetti, applied engineering sciences, Honors College, Gabriel Sotelo Justo, computer science, Honors College, Liliana Valkner, biosystems engineering, Honors College, Matthew Whyte, computer science, Honors College, Nicole Williams, civil engineering, Honors College, Whew.

Okay.

On behalf of the board of trustees I wish to extend and Hardy, congratulations to you all, and go green.

- Go white.

(audience cheers) - We were also fortunate to have a College of Engineering representative on the Senior Class Council this year.

Ishwari Kapale, please stand.

Ishwari is a graduate in electrical engineering.

Thank you for your service to the senior class council.

(Leo applauds) (audience applauds) Our next group of honorees are students nominated by the MSU engineering community for their service to the college.

When your name is called, please stand and remain standing.

Sean Blanchard, mechanical engineering, Erin Boyle, chemical engineering, Steven Coscino, mechanical engineering, Emily England, material science and engineering, Cameron Hassano, mechanical engineering, Kayla Myles, chemical engineering, (audience cheers) Eunhye Grace Park, computer science engineering, Tatiana Voegerl, computer science engineering, Kate Wernicke, biosystems engineering.

Congratulations.

Will you please join me in offering a collective tribute to these outstanding engineering students.

(audience cheers) Please be seated.

Engineering students who are also graduating from MSU Honors College have completed a rigorous set of enriched courses during their engineering curriculum and are identified by the white collar stole with the HC designation.

Would all members of the Honor College please stand for recognition?

(Leo applauds) (audience cheers) Please be seated.

Co-ops and internships are extremely important for many of us in the college.

Students who've completed at least three co-op or internship experiences along with completing EGRX for each of the experiences are wearing orange and white cords.

Please stand to be recognized.

(Leo applauds) (audience cheers) Please be seated.

As an indication of the importance of economic development in the great state of Michigan, we have partnered with the Engineering Society of Detroit, and students have worked with them over the course of their career.

Will students who've been part of the ESD program, who are wearing a blue rope, please stand to be recognized?

(Leo applauds) (audience applauds) Finally, MSU's a national leader in the development of international programs.

Through both student and faculty participation in these programs, we continue to play an important role in enhancing global understanding and building an international community of scholars.

Would all students who have participated in an education-abroad program or international research or work opportunity please stand for recognition?

(Leo applauds) (audience cheers) Thank you.

Please be seated.

Now for the fun part.

We shall now confer the baccalaureate degrees upon candidates from the major programs of the college.

The candidates are from the, the candidates from the major of applied engineering sciences will be presented by Dr. Laura Genik, director of the program.

Laura.

(audience cheers) - Will the candidates for the bachelor's of science degree in applied engineering sciences please rise and remain standing?

Dean Kempel, On behalf of the applied engineering sciences faculty, I am pleased to present this outstanding class as candidates for the awarding of the baccalaureate degree.

- [Leo] Thank you.

(audience cheers) The candidates from the major biosystems engineering will be presented by Dr. Brad Marks, chairperson of the department.

- Will the candidates for the bachelor's degree in biosystems engineering please stand and remain standing?

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, these candidates are prepared to engineer a better world.

On behalf of the biosystem engineering faculty, I present them to you for the conferral of the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

(audience cheers) - The candidates from the Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science will be presented by Dr. Christina Chan, chairperson of the department.

Happens all the time.

- Would the... (audience laughs) Would the candidates for the bachelor's degree in chemical engineering and material science and engineering please stand and remain standing?

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, on behalf of the chemical engineering and material science and engineering faculty, I am pleased to present to you these outstanding candidates for the awarding of the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) Chris, the only thing missing was the mic drop.

Candidates from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering will be presented by Dr. Pete Savolainen, interim chairperson of the department.

Pete - Designers, builders, innovators, would the candidates for the bachelor's degree in civil engineering and environmental engineering please stand and remain standing?

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, it is an honor and a privilege on behalf of the civil and environmental engineering family to present these candidates for the awarding of the baccalaureate degree.

- Thank you, Pete.

(audience applauds) The candidates from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering will be presented by Dr. Abdol Esfahanian, chairperson of the department.

- Whoo.

- Would the candidate for the bachelor degree of computer science and computational data science please stand and remain standing?

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, these wonderful candidates are ready to change the world for better.

I'll present them to them, I'll present them to you for the conferral of the degree.

Thank you.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) The candidates from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering will be presented by Dr. John Papapolymerou, chairperson of the department.

- Would candidates for the bachelor's degrees in computer engineering and electrical engineering please stand and remain standing?

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, on behalf of the electrical and computer engineering faculty, I'm presenting these amazing candidates to you for the awarding of their baccalaureate degrees.

- Thank you.

(audience applauds) The candidates from the Department of Mechanical Engineering will be presented by Dr. Minami Yoda, chairperson of the department.

- Would the candidates for the bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering please stand and remain standing?

(audience cheers) Dean Kempel, on behalf of the mechanical engineering faculty, I am pleased to present these exceptional candidates to you for the awarding of the baccalaureate degree.

(audience cheers) - Thank you.

Trustee Scott, will you stand and join me?

On behalf of the president, who has delegated to him the authority of the state of Michigan vested in the board of trustees confer upon each of you the degrees for which you've been recommended with all the rights and distinction to which they entitle you.

According to custom, you may now move your tassels from the right side of your caps to the left.

Congratulations to your alumni.

(audience cheers) Please be seated.

This act represents the conclusion of a great achievement.

It marks the beginning of a lifetime of dedicated service to your fellow citizens.

It's an achievement worthy of celebration, and we're here this afternoon to celebrate the fact that more than 850 students have, this semester, completed the academic program of their choice in the College of Engineering.

(audience cheers) At this time, the new graduates will be escorted to the stage by their academic advisors.

Will the advisors please stand and be recognized?

(audience cheers) (Leo applauds) The students will be introduced by Jamie Paisley and Linda Kernohan from WKAR Broadcasting Services as they walk across the stage to receive a token diploma.

Students who attained a grade point average between 3.97 and 4.0 are awarded university high honor.

University honor is awarded the students who have earned grade point averages between 3.88 and 3.96.

Clearly an engineer designed that process.

(audience laughs) These honors are being designated by the gold cords added to the academic roads.

Before we get started with the fun part, I'm giving our students one last assignment.

Please show respect to all your fellow graduates and remain in the arena through the reading of all the names.

Let's celebrate everyone.

For the rest of the audience, please keep your individual applause brief so the names of each of our graduates can be heard by all.

Will the graduates from the environmental engineering major please come forward?

- Now presenting students from the environmental engineering major.

Andrew Wallace, (audience cheers) Isabella Marra, (audience cheers) Laura Hershauer, (audience cheers) Olivia Grace Hagan, - Let's go.

(audience cheers) - [Jamie] Natalie Sheen, (audience cheers) Ashley Siluk, (audience applauds) Rachel Marie Fagerman, (audience cheers) Ryleigh Jackson, (audience cheers) Alyssa Rose Gruda, - [Audience Member] Yeah.

- [Jamie] Katie Tonielli, (audience cheers) Emma Benedek, (audience cheers) Katherine Foss, (audience cheers) Andrew Robert Barnes, (audience cheers) Grant Gattoni, (audience cheers) Abigail Mae Righter, (audience cheers) Nowreen Tarannum Kabir, (audience cheers) Alya?

Alya Abdullah Alaskar, (audience cheers) Kelsey Reneé Henry, (audience cheers) Sarah George, (audience cheers) Saige Phelps, (audience cheers) Suhail Saleem, (audience cheers) Joe Baron, (audience cheers) Tyler Mather, (audience cheers) Nicholas Broda, - [Audience Member] Go, Broda.

(audience cheers) - [Jamie] Trey Beecham, (audience cheers) Madison Price, (audience cheers) Makiyah?

Makiyah Jala Nicole McGiver, (audience cheers) McIver, Therese Diakovasiliou, (audience cheers) Lillia Patrick, (audience cheers) Hadeel Rass, - [Audience Member] Whoo, Hadeel.

(audience cheers) - [Jamie] Now presenting students from the civil engineering major.

Colin Edwards, (audience cheers) Alexandria Ferche, (audience cheers) Dana LeFevre, (audience cheers) Madeline Carly Rosenthal, (audience cheers) Aaron Christopher Masacek, (audience cheers) Mohammed Moghrabi, (audience cheers) Vicki Lynne McTaggart, (audience cheers) Malia Evans, (audience cheers) Olivia Pauls, (audience cheers) Avery Seling, (audience cheers) Gracie Alexandra Clark, (audience cheers) Dennell Brooke Adkins, (audience cheers) Austin Detweiler, (audience cheers) Nicole Williams, (audience cheers) Nicole Dolores West, (audience cheers) Hannah Catherine Calender, (audience cheers) Jund?

Adrien Jund, (audience cheers) Owen David Wright, (audience cheers) Pranesh Bhandari, (audience cheers) Kahlil Turner, (audience cheers) Adam Gasiorek, (audience cheers) Matthew Stave, (audience cheers) Jillian Gray, (audience cheers) Tara Bourdage, (audience cheers) Matthew Peter Meyers, (audience cheers) Gerrit Cramer, Josh Finamore, (audience cheers) James Roulo, (audience cheers) Eddie Klenow, (audience cheers) Nicholas Kurniawan, (audience cheers) William Bailey, (audience cheers) Noah Hartman, (audience cheers) Ansel Hao-Ming Man, (audience cheers) William Barrott, - Whoo.

- [Jamie] Alexander Rhodes, (audience cheers) Spencer Litvin, (audience cheers) Dominic Battiata, (audience cheers) Tawfeek Athfy Shetiah, (audience cheers) Khyrel Threlkeld, (audience cheers) Chanelle?

- Ryanne Chanelle.

- [Jamie] Ryanne Chanelle Shaw, (audience cheers) Kapricia Guice, (audience cheers) Collin Jones, (audience cheers) - [Linda] Kehren.

- [Jamie] Renee Marie Kehren, (audience cheers) Zachary Michael Gacioch, (audience cheers) Owen James Woods, (audience cheers) Ryan Soto, (audience cheers) Andrew Carter, (audience cheers) Max Barnes, - Whoo.

- Go, Max.

- [Jamie] August Galasso.

(audience cheers) Now presenting students from the materials science and engineering major.

Emily England, (audience cheers) Drew Ann Ingraham, (audience cheers) Imge Aktugan, (audience cheers) Amelia Hitchingham, (audience cheers) Nicole Kelly, - Whoo.

(audience cheers) - [Jamie] Kyle Henrikson, (audience applauds) Nolan Hooper, (audience cheers) Tijan?

Brian Tijan, (audience cheers) Jack Martin, (audience cheers) Samuel Yoder, (audience cheers) Louis Booth, (audience cheers) Edison Xavier Lewis, (audience cheers) Alexander Bakke, (audience cheers) In-Wuk Cho, Nolan Kelly.

(audience cheers) Now presenting students from the chemical engineering major.

Olivia Collins, (audience cheers) Drew Elliott Barber- - Barber.

- [Jamie] Truman Patrick Ryan Jacobson, (audience cheers) Camden Vander Wal, (audience cheers) Darian?

Darian Mason, - Darian.

(audience cheers) - [Jamie] Matthew Skulski, (audience cheers) Hannah Ruth Vogel, (audience cheers) Kyle lots of Love, (audience cheers) Colton Knowles, (audience cheers) Shawn Michael Heard, (audience cheers) Evan Ansbro, (audience cheers) Ethan Rowell Deckrow, (audience cheers) Thomas Joseph Rabaut, (audience cheers) Nicole Rose Hanshaw, (audience cheers) Erin Elizabeth Boyle, (audience cheers) Cajas?

- [Carmen] Cajas.

- [Jamie] Carmen Rose Cajas Wardle, (audience cheers) Cameron Lochrie, (audience cheers) Dominik Servinski, (audience cheers) Kayla?

Kayla Myles, (audience cheers) Charles Dunn, (audience cheers) Jennifer Lane, (audience cheers) Paige Pilarski, (audience cheers) Ayanna Williams, (audience cheers) Kendra Nicole Fowler, (audience cheers) Amjad Mahmoud Mashmoushi, (audience cheers) Brendon David Allen, (audience cheers) Theodore Belecciu, Adem John Martuscelli, (audience cheers) Caleb T Sandum, (audience cheers) Zachary Harvard Lorence, (audience cheers) Brennan Codlin, (audience cheers) Matthew Bucknell, (audience cheers) Sean Reid, Carter Filipiak, (audience cheers) Nathan Beckman, (audience cheers) Breanna Booth, Evangelos Karabetsos, (audience cheers) Mohamed Abdinasir Mohamed, (audience cheers) Thomas Weiss, (audience cheers) Oluwaseun Olamide Ajepe, (audience cheers) Olga Vasiliki Stathis, (audience cheers) Kathleen Ireland Hummer, (audience cheers) Ridhika Patel, (audience cheers) Zoe Judith Linko, (audience cheers) Megan Giltmier, (audience cheers) Justin Hamlin, (audience cheers) Mason Razz, (audience cheers) Lauren Elizabeth Petrie, (audience cheers) Noah Robert Hoxsie, (audience cheers) Cole Henkel, (audience cheers) Nicholas Schmucker, (audience applauds) Chike Nnaji, (audience cheers) Mazen Sameeh Alsahafi, (audience cheers) Pum Choksifi Tasame, (audience cheers) Junghoan Lee, (audience cheers) Amy Tanushi, (audience applauds) Scally?

Madison Scally, (audience cheers) Emma Snyder, - Yeah.

- [Linda] Now presenting students from the biosystems engineering major.

Lillian Grace Bieszke, (audience cheers) Kate Wernicke, (audience cheers) Jordan Sheely, (audience cheers) Vianney Alejandra Medina Gonzalez, (audience cheers) Erin Brantley, (audience cheers) Kaily Alyse Kao, (audience cheers) Chloe Zaborneykline, (audience cheers) Emily Buijink, (audience cheers) Sidney Thompson, (audience cheers) Nathan Schrier, (audience cheers) Zachary Ostoin, (audience cheers) Carter Monson, (audience cheers) Arthur Charles Devota, (audience cheers) Xheneta Vitija, (audience cheers) Megan Kline, (audience cheers) Sydney Rose Jacobi, (audience cheers) Josephine Dukaj, (audience cheers) Sydney Richter, (audience cheers) Bilal Sabri, (audience cheers) Victoria Loomis, (audience cheers) Alexis Nicole Sawicki, (audience cheers) Meili Papa, (audience cheers) Skyler Leigh Benczarski, (audience cheers) Nicole Lambert, (audience cheers) Liliana Valkner, (audience cheers) Jensen Tumas, (audience cheers) Matthew D. Martini, (audience cheers) Jack Kujawski, (audience cheers) Andrew Hovey, (audience cheers) Ryan Heileman, (audience cheers) Guy Sloan, (audience cheers) Christian Loveall, (audience cheers) Braden Heimbaugh, (audience cheers) Now presenting students from the applied engineering sciences major.

Zachary McKibben, (audience cheers) Michael Paul Haerens, Peter Morgridge, (audience cheers) Kayla Mone Clowney, (audience cheers) Trevor Brian Lovelace, (audience cheers) Dominic Meloche, (audience cheers) Lucy Gjermstad, (audience cheers) Robinson Ann Beverly Kwame, (audience cheers) Landen Jefrey Piper, (audience cheers) Kourtney Klatt, (audience cheers) Zachary Ziemba, (audience cheers) Michael Reed, (audience cheers) Nathan James Hogan, (audience cheers) Elliott Augustus Greene, (audience cheers) Luke David James Elden, (audience cheers) JohnPaul LeFevre, (audience cheers) Calvin Somers, (audience cheers) Jennifer Lypka, (audience cheers) Hana Duncan, (audience cheers) Kaylin Nguyen, (audience cheers) Jade Candela, (audience cheers) Michael Harper, (audience cheers) Kyle Lee, (audience cheers) Aaron Langtry, (audience cheers) Ethan Jewell, (audience cheers) Justin Donald Moore, (audience cheers) Dylan Nathan Benyukhis, (audience cheers) Mitch Dillon, (audience cheers) Ellie Burwitz, Joao Victor Barbosa Machado, (audience cheers) Hannah Grace Walters, (audience cheers) Kaitlin Ifkovits, (audience cheers) Jack Deak, (audience cheers) Charles Eppink, (audience cheers) Matt Ampunan, (audience cheers) Jenna Somers, (audience cheers) Shannon Brown, (audience cheers) Amber Jakiel, (audience cheers) Nikita Shetti, (audience cheers) Hannah Billmeier, (audience cheers) Noel Vizzeswarapu, (audience cheers) Sachetan Krishnaraj, (audience cheers) Harshil Chaudhary, (audience cheers) Sebastian Sobotka, (audience cheers) Eli Reifenrath, (audience cheers) Zachary Bradley, (audience cheers) Luke McInnes, (audience cheers) Nick Dimitrios Madias, (audience cheers) Jadyn Henry, (audience cheers) Jacquelyn Williams, (audience cheers) Kara Kieras, (audience cheers) Spencer Tomczak, (audience cheers) Jack Zugay, (audience cheers) Jack Van Der Vliet, (audience cheers) Andrew Nolan, (audience cheers) Logan Michael Kerry, (audience cheers) Josh Cowger, (audience cheers) Henry Moses Ficyk, (audience cheers) Jacob Daniel Cieslinski, (audience cheers) Ethan Rylko, (audience cheers) Sumaja Mohammed Willis, (audience cheers) Christian Dudley, (audience cheers) Matai Ronald Mitchell Swain, (audience cheers) Now presenting students, now presenting students from the electrical engineering major.

Ben Torok, (audience cheers) Conner Grant, (audience cheers) Jason Shell, (audience cheers) Zainub Riyaz Larji, (audience cheers) Dashiel Matlock, (audience cheers) Fuad Al Sabit, (audience cheers) Yida Yang, (audience cheers) Manan Patel, Jacob Cabana, (audience cheers) Maria Grace Scannell, (audience cheers) Sara Elizabeth Tatreau, (audience cheers) Benjamin Philip Grifth, (audience cheers) Baraa Aljanadi, (audience cheers) Joshua Paul Warminski, (audience cheers) Evan Schleis, (audience cheers) Mateusz Moczulski, (audience cheers) Nicholas Bannon DePolo, (audience cheers) Brendan Thomas Somers, (audience cheers) Kalyn James Vanwormer, (audience cheers) Maximillian Lee Van Wert, (audience cheers) Emily Sandra Koles, (audience cheers) Prerana Gunda, (audience cheers) Megan Arnold, (audience cheers) Alayna Schumaker, (audience cheers) Anne Marie Clinger, (audience cheers) Rachel Olivia White, (audience cheers) Daniel Frank Grembi, (audience cheers) Russel Moran, Nicholas Fedewa, (audience cheers) Marcus Wolff, (audience cheers) Lucas Stern, (audience cheers) Sterling Worth Pratt Spaccarotella, (audience cheers) Jake Adams, (audience cheers) Frank Wei, (audience cheers) Larry Williams, (audience cheers) Adishvar Jeyaranjan, (audience cheers) - [Jamie] Turbold Ariunbold, (audience cheers) Dauan Hendley Jr, (audience cheers) Morgan Gates, (audience cheers) Ishwari Jineshwar Kapale, (audience cheers) Andrew Morgan, (audience cheers) Joseph Lopez, (audience cheers) Daniel Martin Evans, David Evans, Jake Sime, Lynden Badgley, (audience cheers) Daniel Mihailovic.

(audience cheers) Now presenting students from the computer engineering major.

Najiha Nasrin Jaigirdar, (audience cheers) Kevin Cawley, (audience cheers) Krish Chiwhane, (audience cheers) Pramod Prahlada, (audience cheers) Randy Sahat Hirmiz, (audience cheers) Peyton Nagher, (audience cheers) Matthew David Daube, (audience cheers) Sarah Emily Siemen, (audience cheers) Herminee Orzech, (audience cheers) Aryan Gondkar, Yidi Yang, (audience cheers) Maria Grace Canal, Nathan McNamara, (audience applauds) Shane Morrison, (audience cheers) Jaden Hanold, (audience cheers) Samuel Bollman, (audience cheers) Ray Chi Liu, (audience cheers) Brian Vincent Malick, (audience cheers) Ileana Kueber, Jessica Messing, (audience cheers) Kenneth Argue, (audience cheers) Varsha Singh Raja Kalopalan, (audience cheers) Jason An, (audience cheers) Prasanth Peddireddy, (audience cheers) Vashcar Deb Nath, Murong Xue, Vinay Gullapalli, (audience cheers) Eli Hilborn, Kevin Ladley, (audience cheers) Joshua Brown, (audience cheers) Tim Kramer, (audience cheers) Jayden Christopher Ware DeVaull, (audience cheers) Mike Senecal.

(audience cheers) Now presenting students from the computational data science major.

Matthew Roberts, (audience cheers) Claire Benson, (audience cheers) Chrissie Suchi Fanood, (audience cheers) Kofi Debrah, (audience cheers) Koya Volk Saito, (audience cheers) Sydney Rose Gruczelak, (audience cheers) Mataya Mely Sedek, (audience cheers) Alan A. Leon, (audience cheers) Ashlin Riggs.

(audience cheers) Now presenting students from the computer science major.

Campbell Robertson, (audience cheers) Advait Paliwal, (audience cheers) Harika Gutla, (audience cheers) Het Patel, (audience cheers) Swathi Thippireddy, (audience cheers) Nixon Sharkus Holley, (audience cheers) Colin Davidson, (audience cheers) Cameron O'Connor, (audience cheers) Luke Soumis, (audience cheers) Matthew Dunn, (audience cheers) Mohammad Zaman, (audience cheers) Will Skaggs, (audience applauds) Parker Morgan, (audience cheers) Zachary Morris, (audience cheers) Kimberly O'teba Akwara Jackson, (audience cheers) Aparna Anand, (audience cheers) Joseph Finnegan, (audience cheers) Juan Young Albert Cho, (audience cheers) Sriram Seelamneni, Carter Salna, (audience cheers) Emmett Barrett, (audience cheers) Felix Liang, - [Audience Member] Whoo.

- [Jamie] Joseph Potila, (audience cheers) Marla Whitfield, (audience cheers) Yaxuan Tang, (audience cheers) Aditya Venkata Krishna, (audience cheers) Alan Javier Fierro Godinez, (audience cheers) Joshua Austin, Brandon Dutton, (audience cheers) Will Gamba, (audience cheers) Shafkat Kabir, (audience cheers) Max Resch, (audience cheers) Sifatul Anindho, (audience cheers) Ashley Angelica Arciniega, (audience cheers) Emily Feuer, (audience cheers) Isabella Engelman, (audience cheers) Ayeza Imtiaz, (audience cheers) Nafisa Farah Ahmed, (audience cheers) Malik Hollins, (audience cheers) Thomas Gorman, (audience cheers) Berkai Ardien, (audience cheers) Jasmine Richardson, (audience cheers) Anna Natali Catenacci, (audience cheers) Claire Lavalley, (audience cheers) Grace Park, (audience cheers) Tatiana Voegerl, (audience cheers) Khushi Vora, (audience applauds) Gabriel Sotelo Justo, (audience cheers) Juan Sabogal Olarte, (audience cheers) Ishita Kokil, (audience cheers) Aman Todi, (audience cheers) Hunter Wittke, (audience cheers) Andrew Vandercar, (audience cheers) Joseph Pauls, (audience cheers) Karl Ma, Ryan Le, (audience cheers) Heng Liang, (audience cheers) Milan Mihailovic, (audience cheers) Susanne Constantakis, (audience cheers) Paulina Bies, (audience cheers) Camden Cho, (audience cheers) Bryce Cooperkawa, (audience cheers) Ashley Tran, (audience cheers) Joseph Vesche, (audience cheers) Jacob Vesche, (audience cheers) Cody Girard, (audience cheers) Jacob Yax, (audience cheers) Gabriel Kubiak, (audience cheers) Logan Gillis, (audience cheers) Hunter Jones, (audience cheers) Timothy Seth Youngstrom, (audience cheers) Joel Marshall, (audience cheers) Hemanth Yalamanchili, (audience cheers) Arul Srivastava, (audience cheers) Neil Khedekar, (audience cheers) Andrew Jon Byerly, Nathan Srivastava, (audience cheers) Ian Samuel Valdovinos Granados, (audience cheers) Timmy Wu, (audience cheers) Omay Hazar Dogan, (audience cheers) Baran Manti, (audience cheers) Blakely Garvin, (audience cheers) Jacob Meyer, (audience cheers) Leo Hoerdemann, (audience cheers) Justin Masters, (audience cheers) Arjun Gupta, (audience cheers) Benjamin Hayes, (audience cheers) Blake Krishan Morris, (audience cheers) Connor Joseph Roy, (audience cheers) Evan Marks, (audience cheers) Karthik Kandikonda, (audience cheers) Jacob Hughes, (audience cheers) Andrew Dagostino, (audience cheers) Jacob Louden, (audience cheers) Elio Moussa, (audience cheers) Darshil Patel, (audience cheers) Adrian Alexander Adiwidjaja, (audience cheers) Marshal Digiovanni, (audience cheers) Matthew Wu, (audience cheers) An Le, Nick Marshall, Paul Williams, (audience cheers) Nicolas Noga, (audience cheers) Shawn Mondol, (audience cheers) Ben Gibbons, (audience cheers) David Rackerby, (audience cheers) Brendan Wieferich, (audience cheers) Kaijia Joanna Zhan, (audience cheers) Courtney Thang, (audience cheers) David Schon, Vetri Vijay, Frederick Fan, Andrew Martin Naumof, (audience cheers) Christian Vaughan, (audience cheers) Chase Hawley, (audience cheers) Cole Tackett (audience cheers) Jacob Edward Rhodes, (audience cheers) John Landers, (audience cheers) Jack Patton, - Whoo.

- [Jamie] Satya Byreddy, (audience cheers) (air horn honking) Ammar Elkafrawy, (audience cheers) Ishak Ahmed, (audience cheers) Roshan Atluri, (audience cheers) Luke Kelly, (audience cheers) Adam Benjamin Collier, (audience cheers) Ryan Daniel Conley, (audience cheers) Zane O'Dell, (audience cheers) Aman Dhruva Thamminana, (audience cheers) Rajmeet Singh Chandok, (audience cheers) Ahmad Arman Newaz, (audience cheers) Dominick Radclife, William Feddern, (audience applauds) Logan Kania, (audience cheers) Yash Gautam, Connor Chapman, (audience cheers) Brendan Bushbaker, (audience cheers) Tejas Singhal, (audience cheers) Will Morant, (audience cheers) (audience laughs) Ashley Jaria, (audience murmuring) Henry Barton, (audience cheers) Richard Zhou, (air horn honking) Calisa Stevens, - Whoo.

- [Jamie] Rossi Palomba, (audience cheers) Zachary Gage, (audience cheers) Joseph Baran, (audience murmuring) Cedric Henderson Justus Emmanuel, (audience cheers) Jared Bloch, (audience cheers) Drew Peterson, (audience cheers) Christina Tagay, (audience cheers) Charles Talaga, (audience cheers) Ethan Rylko, (audience cheers) Caleb Story, (audience cheers) Krish Magal, (audience cheers) Rebecca Winkler, (audience cheers) Chase Andrew Lichtman, (audience cheers) Daniel Buglak, (audience cheers) Viktor Milan Filipovich, (audience cheers) Farhan Parekh, (audience cheers) Elijah McArdle, Ethan Lowell Potvin, Elia Evan Spyratos, Timothy Moran, Sarah Clay, (audience cheers) Hailey Elizabeth Cohen, (audience cheers) Matthew Whyte, (audience cheers) Matthew Wright, (audience cheers) Connor Horton, (audience cheers) Matthew Crandall, (audience cheers) Motheo Treasure Puso, (audience cheers) Simon Situ, (audience cheers) Isha Ipa, (audience cheers) Austin Mills, (audience cheers) Brendan Cleveland, (audience cheers) Lucas Nogueira Pirez, (audience cheers) Alayna Johnson, (audience cheers) Swetha Jagannathan, Pranav Katari, (audience cheers) Josiah Klann, (audience cheers) William Wilson, Jackson Holscher, (audience cheers) Isabella Shanye, Jack Wood, (audience cheers) Khloe Hayes, (audience cheers) Nashawn Longmire, (audience cheers) Jared Singh Sekhon, (audience cheers) Jacob Robert Stacy, (audience cheers) Vishal Chava, (audience cheers) Morty Brown, Stephan Freitag, (audience cheers) Evan Stanislaw, Kai Vandenbosch, Gary Seevers, Cale Linabury, (audience cheers) Alessandro Bocchi, (audience cheers) Abel Diaz Valdez, (audience cheers) Jack Sleeman, (audience cheers) Benjamin Zuke, (audience cheers) Jacob Kurkowski, (audience cheers) Joseph Allen Morrison, (audience cheers) Thomas Bauer Sheehy, George Francis Hunt IV, Juan Fourie, (audience cheers) Benjamin Kavara, (audience cheers) Jack Hammond, (audience cheers) Katelyn Marie Hurst, (audience cheers) Elaina Frydel, (audience cheers) William Cosnowski III, Abbie Shekoka, (audience cheers) Joseph Davis, (audience cheers) Manavpreet Singh, (audience cheers) Al-Zayed Al-Hassan, (audience cheers) Frederick Pagadam, (audience cheers) Michael Moss, (audience cheers) Chirag Rudrangi, (audience cheers) (audience murmuring) - [Jamie] Now presenting students from the mechanical engineering major.

(audience cheers) Ryan Qually, (audience cheers) Kenny Yue, Alexander Johnson, (audience cheers) Miles Peters, (audience cheers) Eric Lou, (audience cheers) Noah Roux, (audience cheers) Jacob Kunka, (audience cheers) Ronak Patel, (audience cheers) Cameron Hesano, (audience cheers) Anissa Sant, (audience cheers) Matthew Ajlouny, (audience cheers) Bradley Kolinski, (audience cheers) Rafael Abage, (audience cheers) Benjamin Roraf, (audience cheers) Drew Goodman, (audience cheers) Dayton Matthew Coleman, (audience cheers) Tanner Zidzik, (audience cheers) David Keith Miller, (audience cheers) Benjamin Donald Van Hove, (audience cheers) Kyle Paul, (audience cheers) (audience cheers) Ian Donald Calandrino, (audience cheers) Luke Alexander Muller, (audience cheers) Elise Delikat, (audience cheers) Enido Shyti, (audience cheers) Drew Darin, (audience cheers) Nicholas Malcolm, (audience cheers) Sara Angelina Moscone, (audience cheers) Ethan Michael Wise, (audience cheers) Justin Peter Schmitz, (audience cheers) Michael Anthony Taylor, (audience cheers) Ben Lemke, (audience cheers) Maggie Le, (audience cheers) Gina Marie Sapiano, (audience cheers) Benjamin Delduca, (audience cheers) Evan Rushbrook, (audience cheers) Joe Hamouda, (audience cheers) Michael Faris Romzek, (audience cheers) Katelyn Szafranski, (audience cheers) Alison Lewis, (audience cheers) Tyler Phillip Doral, (audience cheers) Matthew Bush, (audience cheers) Lucas Martini Henricks, (audience cheers) Zach Lee Hetfeld, (audience applauds) Alex York, (audience cheers) Brendan Zwiernik, (audience cheers) Alex Miciuda, (audience cheers) Hunter Reif, (audience cheers) Mark Wells Kemp II, (audience cheers) Ryan Hunter Swarovski, (audience cheers) Isaiah Devougas, (audience cheers) Tyra Janae Treadway, (audience cheers) Anita Patel, (audience cheers) Cale Bowchi, (audience cheers) John Young, (audience cheers) Andrew Ferguson, (audience cheers) Connor Casey, (audience cheers) Andrew William Tabaka, (audience cheers) Branton Guri, (audience cheers) Abdallah Hamad, (audience cheers) Kareem Akram Algarash, (audience cheers) Deniz Farmaka, (audience cheers) Daniel Carillo Solis, (audience cheers) Logan Jacobson, (audience cheers) Carson Kipp, (audience cheers) Sean Hunter Blanchard, (audience cheers) Ari Bozann, (audience cheers) Austin Crawford, (audience cheers) Ryan Leinweber, (audience cheers) Salim Dickow, (audience cheers) Tanaka Chonyera, (audience cheers) Sam Rohrer, (audience cheers) Carter Stefanovski, (audience cheers) Benjamin Matthew Walters, (audience cheers) Colin J. Boulard, (audience cheers) Manav Pradeep Shah, (audience cheers) Aidan Dobbie, (audience cheers) Jonathon Fudala, (audience cheers) Ethan Avery, (audience cheers) Steven Coscino, (audience cheers) Sara Elise Purdue, (audience cheers) Sidney Kelly, (audience cheers) Reagan Ferschweiler, (audience cheers) Kory Knickerbocker, (audience cheers) Garrett Puehler, (audience cheers) Amanda Jefers, - Way to go, AJ.

- Whoo.

- Bennett Guensche, Brandon Roux, (audience cheers) Daniel Staal, (audience cheers) Bradley Douglas Haskin, (audience cheers) Mitchell Carroll, (audience cheers) Aditya Swarnkar, (audience cheers) Aditya Tarle, (audience cheers) Nicole Burcon, (audience cheers) Qifan Weng, Haohua Zhang, (audience cheers) Hanzu Che, Adolfo Lopez, (audience cheers) Elan Krakof, (audience cheers) Catherine Schenone, (audience cheers) Evan Hampel, (audience cheers) Ethan Labelle, (audience cheers) Abby Marie Pankey, (audience cheers) Ellie Clark, (audience cheers) Jenny Aubin, (audience cheers) Charlie Meilinger, (audience cheers) Nick McCarthy, (audience cheers) Noah Young, (audience cheers) Mason Koudelka, (audience cheers) Selena Vidojevski, (audience cheers) Maya Patel, (audience cheers) Kate Nolan, (audience cheers) Vedi Patel, (audience cheers) Aliza Jane Opolka, (audience cheers) Jake Gilman, (audience cheers) Noah Benson, (audience cheers) Atharva Burande, (audience cheers) Carter Beck, (audience cheers) Ethan Smydra, (audience cheers) Daniel Erfani Zachi Yazd, (audience cheers) Gavin Watthayu, (audience cheers) John Paul, (audience cheers) Shahab Khorasanizadeh, (audience cheers) Lauren Elizabeth Osiwala, (audience cheers) Elizabeth Sharkevich, (audience cheers) Ahmed Abboushi, (audience cheers) Ryan Michael Prost, (audience laughs) Nicole Gibbons, (audience cheers) Aisha Maira Iskandar, (audience cheers) Megan Fazio, (audience cheers) Keegan Sclabassi, (audience cheers) Alayna Celestini, (audience cheers) Ryan Geisler, (audience cheers) (air horn honking) Stefan Carl Bellman, (audience cheers) Bryant Hixson, (audience cheers) Gabriel Johnson, (audience cheers) Jeremy Kloss, (audience cheers) Gabriel Birchmeier, (audience cheers) Malachi Loche, (audience cheers) (indistinct) (audience cheers) Angelo Pascual Bartolome, (audience cheers) Miles Grimes, (audience cheers) Nicholas Nastovski, (audience cheers) Tyler Wysocki, (audience cheers) Elia Al Abdullatif, (audience cheers) Brenden Shelby, (audience cheers) Christian Takla, (audience cheers) Adit Mukundan Agaram, (audience cheers) Matthew Mozariwskyj, (audience cheers) Jacob Lee Smith, (audience cheers) Ethan Azeez, David Francis Mueller, (audience cheers) Braeden Keener, (audience cheers) Owen Korf, (audience cheers) Dylan Jones, (audience cheers) Spencer John Meshonsky, (audience cheers) Mitchell Matthew Bjorn, (audience cheers) Heon Kim, (audience applauds) Harshil Jain, (audience cheers) Pattaraphon Wichitrakanlikit, (audience cheers) Trent Warren, (audience cheers) James Fordyce, (audience cheers) Danny Drennan, Colin Graf, (audience cheers) Arjun Patel, (audience cheers) Alexa Garavaglia, (audience cheers) Taylor Page, (audience cheers) Luke Aman, (audience cheers) and Jacob Stabler.

(audience cheers) (air horn honking) (audience cheers) - Congratulations to all of our graduates.

(applauds) (audience cheers) There's a large group of individuals who have contributed with their love, their understanding, and their financial support to the achievements that we recognize today.

Accordingly, we ask all members of the immediate families of the graduates to rise and give all of us an opportunity to express our thanks and appreciation.

(applauds) (audience cheers) Thank you.

I'd like to introduce a very important group of people who've had the ultimate responsibility for the education that you have received.

Would the representatives of the faculty of the College of Engineering rise and accept our gratitude?

(Leo applauds) (audience cheers) Please join us in singing the alma mater, MSU Shadows.

The MSU symphony band conducted by Benjamin Horn will accompany us.

(bright orchestral music) (audience cheers) Please be seated.

I'd like to thank Linda Kernohan and Jamie Paisley of WKAR Radio for reading the graduates names.

Thank you.

(audience applauds) I'd also like to thank Andrea Cleaver for providing a real time captioning of today's ceremony.

(audience applauds) Please remain seated while the platform party and the faculty leave the arena.

Once the platform party has left, please remain in your seats for one additional special number from the MSU symphony band in honor of our graduates.

After the recessional, families and friends may meet the graduate on the ground level.

To our graduates, we're extremely proud of all of you completing your work here today.

We know that you'll accomplish great deeds in the future, and we want to hear from you often.

The best to all of you, and go green.

- Go white.

(audience cheers) (upbeat orchestral music) - [Conductor] Five song.

Let's get right into it.

And one, two.

(upbeat orchestral music) (audience cheers)