ASABE recognizing its outstanding student members as those who excel scholastically and demonstrate community involvement through participation in local, regional, or international activities and serving in leadership positions within the organization.
"Melvin has been a high achieving student of our biological systems engineering program," said Satyanarayan Dev, Ph.D., BSE assistant professor and program chair. "Besides exhibiting academic excellence, Mr. Jordan has shown outstanding leadership abilities."
Jordan is currently the president of FAMU's ASABE student chapter and he is the first student from a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) to become a parliamentarian for the ASABE's Southeast Regional Student Association.
As described on its website, ASABE was founded in 1907 and it is an "educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems" with members in more than 100 countries.