Yunlu Shen, a civil engineering student at McGill University, pours all her talents into advocating a global vision which is at once modern yet respects both communities and cultures. And her talents are manifold. As well as pursuing studies in a complex discipline, she masters the piano and even participated in a competition at Davis Senior High School in California. Captain of a badminton team, president of an astronomy club, member of an environmental group, co-publisher of Output, the student magazine of McGill University’s Faculty of Engineering, she also helped build a pedestrian bridge during a visit to the village of Gansu, China that has been awarded a prize for architecture. Yunlu is also committed at the social level and helped organize the first two editions of an annual conference for future women engineers. She is the vice-president and a member of numerous committees of the Engineering Students’ Society at McGill University, the recipient of an award from the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and gives lectures on the future of a profession in which she has already made her mark.