{"id":19996,"date":"2025-06-04T08:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T12:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=19996"},"modified":"2025-07-02T11:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:19:50","slug":"elizabethtown-college-civil-engineering-major-awarded-2025-swe-philadelphia-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2025\/06\/04\/elizabethtown-college-civil-engineering-major-awarded-2025-swe-philadelphia-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Civil Engineering Major Awarded 2025 SWE Philadelphia Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20227\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20227\" class=\"wp-image-20227\" src=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Munia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Munia.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Munia-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Munia-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Munia-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2025\/06\/Munia-1080x1440.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Munia Kamal &#8217;27<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College Civil Engineering major Munia Kamal &#8217;27 has been awarded the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.swe.org\/scholarships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2025 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Philadelphia Scholarship<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, recognizing her academic achievements, leadership, and commitment to advancing women in engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>\u201cThis scholarship is both encouraging and motivating as I continue pursuing my degree and career in engineering,\u201d Kamal said. \u201cIt connects me to a network of inspiring women engineers and reinforces my commitment to designing with purpose.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kamal currently serves as President of Etown\u2019s SWE chapter and has been actively involved in the group\u2019s annual, community-centered events, including the annual <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2023\/12\/14\/elizabethtown-college-engineering-students-adapt-toys-to-be-accessible-for-children-with-disabilities\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Holiday Toy Hack-a-Thon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She also attended the national SWE conference last fall, where she gained leadership strategies and built confidence as a future engineer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of her favorite projects at Etown was designing an adjustable bowling ramp for students with disabilities, a hands-on experience that Kamal said reflected Etown Engineering\u2019s motto to \u201cEngineer for Society.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The SWE Philadelphia Section Scholarship is awarded annually to students in the region who demonstrate strong academic performance, teamwork, leadership, scholarship, and a passion for pursuing engineering.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College Civil Engineering major Munia Kamal &#8217;27 has been awarded the 2025 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Philadelphia Scholarship, recognizing her academic achievements, leadership, and commitment to advancing women in engineering.\u00a0 \u201cThis scholarship is both encouraging and motivating as I continue pursuing my degree and career in engineering,\u201d Kamal said. \u201cIt connects me to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":19997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[1440,197,1350,943],"class_list":["post-19996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-civil-engineering","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","tag-scholarship","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20228,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19996\/revisions\/20228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}