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Maria is a senior from
Austin, Texas majoring in Civil Engineering.
Participating in service work has been a big
part of her career at Notre Dame. She enrolled
in a community based learning class her freshman
year and soon after joined the Circle K service
group. She has participated in two service trips
through the Center for Social Concerns, one to
New Orleans during fall break 2006 to help the
victims of Hurricane Katrina and the second to
Appalachia during spring break 2009 to help
families negatively affected by coal mining. She
currently serves on the Social Concerns
Committee in Student Government helping to
implement service projects on campus. She is
really energized about the ND SEED project
especially since it will be her last service
venture as an undergraduate. Beyond service
work, Maria does research with Dr. Khandelwal in
his Computational Physics and Structural
Simulation Lab. She previously worked on finite
element modeling of concrete structures under
thermal loading this past summer and is
currently working on the structural response of
steel members to fire loads. She is a member of
the engineering organizations ASCE and SHPE,
where she serves as secretary. |
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