She is also this year's recipient of the CEE Departmental Citation. Ng also served as one of two student representatives on the College's Faculty Committee on Undergraduate Study, which evaluates and approves curriculum changes, and is one of three students heading up the Senior Class Gift Committee. Ng is headed to MIT in the fall for graduate school, where she plans to combine the technology of civil and environmental engineering with business and public policy, something she said most engineers are reluctant to do. It wasn't until a high school biology teacher nudged her to enter an engineering design contest that Ng found her niche. Until then, she had planned to be an architect.
Civil engineering touches all parts of society all over the globe.