The Bayer Corporation has announced that President & CEO of Bayers Corp. (USA) and Bayer MaterialScience LLC, Gregory S. Babe (WV A '80), will deliver the keynote address at the West Virginia University's Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources' 2012 Commencement on May 12. Babe is also scheduled to receive an honorary... Continue Reading →
Engineering Stories, May 2012
Students from Michigan Technological University recently made a presentation to 500 sixth graders from Burton Middle School (Grand Rapids, MI) about engineering education and careers. Uziel Mendez, MI B 2013, was one of the six Michigan Tech students from the local chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers. Mendez also participated in the Tau... Continue Reading →
In the News, May 2012
The Tau Beta Pi Association has announced the 2012-13 class of TBP Scholars. This year 200 Scholars were selected from 328 applicants with a total of $392,000 awarded to help fund a senior year of study for the Scholars. You can read the press release and see the full list of TBP Scholars on our... Continue Reading →
Engineering News: the Association & Beyond
Tau Beta Pi has announced the 79th group TBP Fellows on its website. Forty graduate students were awarded Fellowships for 2012-13 with a little more than half receiving the stipend. The press release and full list of fellows is now available. Be sure to check back for news on the 2012-13 class of TBP Scholars,... Continue Reading →
Engineering Recognition: Present & Past
This past weekend at the Florida Atlantic University's Student Organization Awards and Recognition (SOAR) banquet, the Florida Epsilon Chapter of Tau Beta Pi at FAU won the Student Organization Program of the Year for their efforts related to the MindSET program. Hosting several MindSET activity sessions with the local A.D. Henderson School elementary students, FL... Continue Reading →
Engineering News, April 2012
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has announced the 2012 Fellows and Foreign Honorary Members. This year's class includes 220 new Fellow/Members and 17 Foreign Honorary Members. Click here for the full list, which includes names and affiliations. Tau Beta Pi congratulates Jennifer A. Lewis, (IL A '86) Hans Thurnauer Professor of Materials Science... Continue Reading →
Difference Makers, April 2012
In a recent paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. James W. Baish, PA H '79, and a team of clinical collaborators in Boston detailed findings of "a better way to map blood vessels in normal and cancerous tumors." Dr. Baish, a professor of engineering at Bucknell University, said, "what... Continue Reading →
Awards & Recognition, April 2012
Dr. Adam C. Siepel, associate professor at Cornell University (NY D 1994), has been named a Guggenheim Fellow by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Dr. Siepel is one of "181 scholars, artists, and scientists in the eighty-eighth annual competition for the United States and Canada." He was cited for his research on "Elegant chimera:... Continue Reading →
Promoting Engineering Education
It is less than three weeks to the USA Science & Engineering Festival in D.C. Tau Beta Pi and the MindSET program will host a booth for the three-day Expo (April 27-29). Student volunteers from DC Alpha, DC Gamma, MD Beta, PA Beta have signed up to help present a variation of the MindSET bridge... Continue Reading →
In the News: Recognitions & Event
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UI) recently released a news release regarding the upcoming initiation of Dr. Daniel J. Bodony, assistant professor of aerospace engineering at UI, into the Illinois Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi. Each semester the IL Alpha chapter selects one outstanding engineering professor to induct as an eminent engineer. Dr.... Continue Reading →
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