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| Nathan Ferraro |
Nathan Ferraro, Senior from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was named
the 2015 Outstanding Senior in Architectural Engineering. He will remain at the University of Oklahoma
for one more year to pursue a master's degree in civil engineering. Graduating in
May with an overall 4.0 GPA Ferraro has been the recipient of numerous honors
and awards, including the Roland Lehr Phi Kappa Phi Award for Distinguished
Undergraduate Research, Penn State's President's Freshman and President Sparks
Awards, the President's Outstanding Transfer Student, PE-ET - Top 10 Senior
Honor Society, and the Letzeiser Honor List. He is also the recipient of various
scholarships including the Society of American Military Engineers, the Guy
Bradford Treat, the McNair Scholars Program, and the Terracon Foundation
Scholarships. His research topics include multiple geotechnical engineering
projects under Dr. Amy Cerato.
Ferraro is a veteran of the United States Navy, having accumulated
over 1000 flight hours on the E-6B Mercury aircraft from 2008 to 2012. He
currently serves as the Program Director of the Warrior-Scholar Project at the
University of Oklahoma. The WSP serves as a gateway program for college-bound
veterans by preparing them for the rigors of a four year degree. He also
contributes in various capacities to multiple CEES organizations, including the
Architectural Engineering Institute Student Chapter, the American Society of
Civil Engineers Student Chapter, the ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition Team and
Chi Epsilon, the Civil Engineering Honor Society.
