Engineering graduate among USA Today's top students.

Marzyeh Ghassemi, 20, who graduated in December from New Mexico State University and is now working for Intel in Oregon, has been named to USA Today's All-USA College Academic second team, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported on its Web site.

Ghassemi was the only student from New Mexico among the 20 members on each of the first, second and third teams.

The winning students were selected from among more than 600 nominees and were selected on the basis of grades, academic rigor, leadership, activities and an essay contest, the Sun-News reported.

Ghassemi began attending NMSU at age 15 after being home-schooled by her mother, Maryam Ghassemi. At NMSU, she majored in electrical engineering and computer science, minored in mathematics, and had a grade point average of 3.9 at graduation, the paper reported.

According to the Sun-News, she was president of the NMSU Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, ambassador for the NMSU College of Engineering and was president of the Alpha Chi honor society, and she did volunteer work for several Las Cruces-area nonprofit organizations.

Currently working as an engineer in the digital health group at Intel in Oregon, she plans to go for a doctorate in biomedical engineering, the paper reported.

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