Bioengineering grad Joseph Rendemonti makes four majors and a future Naval career seem easy

"...In five years and one semester, Joseph Rendemonti completed his major requirements, a nuclear engineering certificate program and a four-semester co-op program at Westinghouse, where he worked full time as an electrical systems engineer while taking a couple of classes at Pitt.

"In a Dec. 11 speech to graduates of Pitt's Swanson School of Engineering, Mr. Rendemonti praised engineers' capacity for greatness, a quality he said isn't always recognized. He explained in an interview that "greatness isn't just what the public thinks of you," pointing to supreme thinkers whose genius wasn't always attributed to them in history books."

Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Watch Mr. Rendemonti's remarks at the Senior Recognition Dinner: