ABOUT ME

LAUREN M. PAESE

Lauren is currently a fifth year graduating in May with an integrated Bachelor and Master in Architectural Engineering at Penn State University with a construction management focus.  She was born and raised in Olney, MD- outside Washington DC. Penn State's study abroad program offer her the opportunity to travel to Rome, Italy in Summer 2015 and receive her architectural studies minor.  She interned with a mechanical design firm in Bethesda, MD afterwards.  Then, she spent the summer of 2016 with DAVIS Construction in Rockville, MD on a mixed use historical, residential building.  This past summer she worked with DPR Construction in San Francisco, CA.  Her thesis is based around the Bay Area Children's Hospital in California.

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At Penn State she was the Student Society of Architectural Engineers (SSAE) Treasurer for two consecutive years. She is also the alternate funds chair for her sorority's THON committee, where she created her own online business selling handmade t-shirts and goods. This past February she had the honor of dancing at THON for the entire 46 hours.  Lauren is highly active with the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer as well, and looks forward to participating again after graduation.

Outside of her studies, Lauren enjoys hiking, traveling and painting.  Her favorite hikes include Angel's Landing and the Narrows in Zion National Park, UT, and Bright Angel trail in the Grand Canyon. After graduation she looks forward to traveling to East Asia with some fellow AEs.