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COMMENCEMENT 2021
PHOTOS BY BRYAN CANTWELL, MIC ORMAN & SHAWN SPENCE
A Walk & Outdoor Commencement to Remember The Class of 2021 has left campus to begin members' professional careers, graduate school studies, military commissions, and other ambitions with the analytical skills to put them in the winner’s circle in solving future challenges in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. That was the message 1990 mechanical engineering alumnus and Team Penske President Tim Cindric told the 416 members who received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from President Robert A. Coons during the institute’s 143rd Commencement—the first year-end event to be conducted outdoors at Cook Stadium’s Phil Brown Field. Another 65 students participated in the ceremony in anticipation of completing their degree requirements this summer or fall.
Cindric gave the Commencement Address and earned an honorary degree from his alma mater. (See more on page 11) He told the graduates: “Throughout your time here at Rose, everyone has been exposed to numbers, formulas, hypothesis, and all kinds of physical and mathematical problems. It didn’t really dawn on me that the biggest thing I was learning while solving these problems wasn’t really the answer. It was the way in which I was trained to approach a problem. Independent of the curriculum or the major you pursued while you were at Rose, each one of your professors was teaching you the same thing but in different way. They were teaching you process. Each one of you will leave here today with the ability to solve virtually any problem because you know where to go to locate the constants and you have been trained to utilize process to determine the answer.“
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