\u201cAfter taking a high school civil engineering class, I did what any resourceful high schooler would do when making major life decisions: I googled \u2018best schools for civil engineering,\u2019\u201d joked Cambry Stratton.<\/p>\n
Although she may have initially looked into the Cockrell School of Engineering through a Google search, Stratton knew the first time she stepped foot on campus that she made the right decision. Then, she set out to make the most of her four years here.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a mindset of not saying no, which led me to various experiences outside of my studies including research exploration, studying abroad, and involvement in student organizations,\u201d Stratton said. \u201cThese experiences shaped my technical knowledge as a novice engineer as well as my broader world view and life perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout her time at Cockrell, Stratton spent time learning across engineering fields. She joined a geotechnical research lab, spent a summer as a drill blast intern at Kiewit, and served as co-chair of the Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Undergraduate Advisory Board. She also gave the opening address at UT\u2019s annual volunteer leadership committee meeting last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think as an engineer at UT, you really develop a \u2018work hard, play hard\u2019 mentality,\u201d Stratton said. \u201cYou\u2019re spending so many hours studying and doing schoolwork that you really just want the most fun activity to do on the weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAfter taking a high school civil engineering class, I did what any resourceful high schooler would do when…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,52316,8014,36102,1049,99356],"class_list":["post-265661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-class-of-2026","tag-cockrell-school-of-engineering","tag-launching-leaders","tag-students","tag-texas-global"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}