User:KevinMDesjardins

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Kevin M. Desjardins

  • Born in Montreal, QC, Canada
  • Moved to Massachusetts in 2002
  • Attended Central Catholic High School in Lawrence, MA 
  • Entered UMass Lowell community in fall of 2011 on the Chancellor's Commonwealth Full Scholarship
  • Studying Civil and Environmental Engineerin
  • Anticipated graduation date: May, 2015
  • Interests lie in the fields of transportation engineering and STEM programming for youths

My plan for UMass Lowell starts here: I want to challenge students to take ownership of the city they live in and realize their potential impact as a designer, problem solver, and budding young engineer. I believe that a design challenge would do just that. I recorded this video at the Stanford d.school and would like to share that with my fellow UIF's. We were challenged to record a pitch in under a minute of a way we could impact our campus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkuXc0MAlsQ