In 2020 when Omar Shaheed III graduated from Berkeley High School, he initially enrolled in South Carolina State’s electrical engineering technology program.
But when Dr. Hasanul A. Basher, professor and chairman of SC State’s Department of Engineering Technology, later asked him if he was interested in studying for the mechatronics engineering degree, Shaheed went along with it.
Last December, Shaheed became South Carolina State University’s first mechatronics engineering graduate. The 23-year-old Moncks Corner native walked across the stage as the university’s first student to ever enroll in the program that combines mechanical and electrical engineering…