Industrial engineering student marshal announced
4/25/2019
University Park, Pa. — Juan Gómez Lorente will be the student marshal for the industrial engineering baccalaureate degree program at the Penn State College of Engineering spring commencement ceremony on May 3. He will receive a bachelor of science in industrial engineering with a minor in economics.
He has chosen Hui Yang, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering, to be his faculty escort.
College of Engineering student marshals are selected for their outstanding academic achievement and contributions to engineering student life.
Gómez Lorente is the son of Beatriz Lorente Boyer and Jorge Gómez Sanchez of Madrid, Spain. He is a 2015 graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
A Schreyer Scholar, Gómez Lorente completed an undergraduate honors thesis titled “Soccer Analytics: An Examination of Current Approaches for Game Outcome Prediction and the Potential of Machine Learning with Artificial Neural Networks.”
He was the recipient of the National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Scholarship, the Schreyer Academic Excellence Scholarship, and the Henderson Memorial Fund Scholarship. He was named to the dean’s list every semester.
Gómez Lorente participated in the Penn State Presidential Leadership Academy, where he was a member of the research team for a policy paper titled “Establishing Viable Standards for Mental Health Services at The Pennsylvania State University.” Additionally, he served as an undergraduate researcher at the Penn State Complex Systems Modeling, Monitoring, and Control Lab through the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates Program.
He completed two internships at PwC, one focused on internal change management initiatives and the other focused on the revenue cycle in the healthcare industry. He also interned at the Sorolla Museum Fund in Madrid, Spain, where he was involved with international outreach, membership program expansion, and infrastructure investment debriefing.
Gómez Lorente’s extracurricular activities included the Penn State Dressage Team (president, 2018-19; show team captain, 2018-19; show team member, 2016-19). This year the team qualified for the Intercollegiate Dressage Association National Championship Competition for the first time by winning their regional competition.
Gómez Lorente’s additional involvement at Penn State included Rotaract Club (vice president, 2017-18), Sailing Club, Schreyer Consulting Club, Glee Club, and Philosophy Club.
Following graduation, he will join PwC as an associate.
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