{"id":111389,"date":"2020-02-14T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T01:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=111389"},"modified":"2020-08-07T13:11:58","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T23:11:58","slug":"taga-top-emerging-engineers-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/02\/14\/taga-top-emerging-engineers-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Top emerging engineers list includes recent UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa graduate"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Fall 2019 graduate Maxx Taga received the outstanding graduating senior in civil and environmental engineering award from Professor Roger W. Babcock Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A recent University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a> graduate is among the nation\u2019s up-and-coming leaders in civil engineering. The American Society of Civil Engineers<\/a> (ASCE) named Maxx Taga as one of 10 2020 New Faces of Civil Engineering in the college category.<\/p>\n

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Taga is one of 10 2020 New Faces of Civil Engineering.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Taga was an honors student with a 3.75 GPA graduating with a bachelor of science in civil engineering in fall 2019. He was named the outstanding graduating senior in civil and environmental engineering<\/a> at the College of Engineering<\/a> Convocation held in December 2019. Taga has served as a student ambassador and engineering council student member, and participated in several other student organizations.<\/p>\n

Taga has worked as a visual effects artist on films including Fantastic Four<\/em> and The Revenant<\/em>, analyzed football statistics on Pro Football Focus and interned at NASA<\/abbr>, Disneyland, Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company and the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n

He has held various leadership roles as an Eagle Scout and conducted a project constructing parking bollards and signage for the Kahala Elementary School parking lot.<\/p>\n

ASCE<\/abbr> will recognize Taga at an event<\/a> in Washington, D.C. on March 13.<\/p>\n

—By Marc Arakaki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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