2023 Undergraduate Ceremony

Date: Saturday, May 13, 2023
Time: 2:00-4:00 p.m. (doors open at 12:30 p.m.)
Location: The Palestra, 235 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA

Ceremony Livestream

Note: if you are unable to access YouTube, you can view the recording of this event via Panopto here.

Keynote Speaker

Nancy Wang

Nancy Wang is a Director of Product and Engineering / General Manager at Amazon Web Services, where she leads P&L, product, engineering and design for its data protection and data security businesses. Prior to Amazon, she led SaaS product development at Rubrik, the fastest-growing enterprise software unicorn and built healthdata.gov for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Passionate about advancing more women into technical roles, Nancy is the founder and board chair of Advancing Women in Tech, a global 501(c)(3) nonprofit with 35,000+ members spanning three continents.

Nancy is a Venture Partner for Felicis Ventures, where she works with early-stage data infra and security companies on their product-market fit, market segmentation, and how to build products at scale.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves on the Board of Advisors for Penn Engineering Online.

Student Speaker

Vasu Macherla (CBE’2023)

Vasu is from Plainfield, Illinois, and is graduating with both a B.S.E. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with a concentration in Pharmaceutics and Biotechnology, and a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Business Analytics.

While at Penn, Vasu was involved with the Engineering Deans’ Advisory Board (EDAB), which is an organization that serves as a liaison between Penn Engineering students, faculty and members of the School’s administration. She was also involved with the Engineering Student Activities Council, Consult for America, and the Wharton Undergraduate Healthcare Club. She conducted epigenetics research at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine and served as an Orientation Peer Advisor for incoming engineering students. During her time at the University she also explored her interests in entrepreneurship, from designing an active-cooling vaccine carrier to address medical cold chain faults, to more recently working on developing a novel chicken feed to target the devastating avian flu outbreaks.

After graduation, Vasu will be joining a management consulting firm as a business analyst in Boston, MA.

Connect and Celebrate With Us!

Penn Engineering encourages our graduates and their families to post on social media using #PennEngineeringProud on Instagram and Twitter (there is also a webform for participation if attendees are not on social media) so that we can include your photos and messages in our celebrations. Participants can also view our social media wall.