Announcements & Opportunities, April 2010

Tau Beta Pi has posted the press releases online for the 2010 Tau Beta Pi Fellows and Scholars.

The two press releases are available as PDFs for printing and html for online reading. Also, check out the sortable tables of this year’s recipients.

Coming soon, be sure to look for the Fellowship Bios of what the 2009-10 class of Tau Beta Pi Fellows have been doing in the past year.

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The Florida Epsilon Chapter of Tau Beta Pi at Florida Atlantic University is participating in the “Where’s the Science Event,” May 1 at the Sugar Sand Park Community Center.

Volunteers from the FL Epsilon Chapter will be hosting a Basic Physics exhibit. Click here for more information, including an event schedule for the Children’s Science Explorium.

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Author Richard Weingardt, P.E. (CO E ’60) and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) have partnered on a new website “that celebrates the life and work of Ferris Wheel inventor, George Ferris.”


The new book, Circles in the Sky, is written by Mr. Weingardt and published by the ASCE. Visit the website for vast amounts of information about ferris wheels, a biography of George Ferris, and excerpts from the book.

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