Taking up engineering turns out to be a blessing for 23-year-old

The excellent performance award winners Chew Weng Chuen and Amy Sahida Soetarman showing their awards during the IEM 55th annual dinner at One World hotel in Petaling Jaya, on 19 April 2014. AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Amy Sahida Soetarman had always wanted to be a teacher, but when she was offered a degree in engineering, she decided to take up the challenge.

Now, she has emerged as one of the country’s top 26 engineering final year students honoured with the Institution of Engineering (IEM) Gold Medal Awards.