Amy Liu receives Distinguished Academic Achievement Award

Amy Liu, undergraduate student in Electrical Engineering, earned the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award from the College of Engineering. 

In addition to earning stellar grades during her undergraduate career, Liu has interned at three different tech companies during the summer months, served as an instructional aide, and been active in a variety of student organizations.

Liu has taught interactive lab sessions as an instructional aide for EECS 216 (Signals and Systems) since 2023. During that time, she strove to help students understand the material in a way that suited their unique learning styles, and also to connect them with others in the class and throughout the engineering community.

She has served as a program advisor for the U-M Office of Culture, Community, and Equity, where she was a teaching assistant in an Arduino course involving circuit theory and interactive labs to 12th grade students.

Since 2021, Liu has been a part of the University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Journal (UMURJ), and was Editor-in-Chief from 2023-2024. During her time at UMURJ, she publicized the journal to more than 150 potential undergraduate editors and authors. Her stated goal was to “give students who may otherwise be unable to showcase their work a chance to have their paper reviewed and published, while also helping our overall community learn about cutting-edge work done in various fields.”

Liu has also been a member of the Embedded Hardware team on Michigan Mars Rover since 2022. During her time on the team, she designed the schematic and layout for a custom 24V converter printed circuit board, and trained in circuit schematic design, layout, and soldering.

Liu has also received the EECS Community Impact Award, the William Harvey Seeley Prize, and the William L. Everitt Student Award of Excellence. She intends to pursue a master’s degree and a career in industry after she graduates this term, and shared, “As I continue learning, I’ll strive to help others do so as well, so that they can gain the blocks with which they can build their own experience.”