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Student
Organizations
Tau
Beta Pi
Brief
Organization History
The
Tau Beta Pi Association is a national engineering honor society
founded by Dr. Edward Higginson Williams, Jr. at Lehigh University
in 1885, "to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred
honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary
character as undergraduates in engineering, or by their attainments
as alumni in the field." The national headquarters of Tau Beta
Pi is located on the campus of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville,
Tennessee, and have been there since 1907.
The
1997 Convention granted a local engineering honor society Tau
Beta Delta, represented by the following students as officers
Frank W. Caldwell, Jr., Jerome A. Crocker, Ebony D. Henry, and
Erika L. Petway and Dr. Jerome A. Atkins, DC A, '63 as Advisor,
authority to establish a chapter at Morgan State. On March 7,
1998 Maryland Epsilon was officially established as the Association's
227th collegiate chapter by Executive Councilor Molly K. Brennan
assisted by Secretary-Treasurer James D. Froula, and District
4 Directors, Donald W. Ausherman and Russell L. Werneth. The first
members included nine alumni and 31 students.
Undergraduate
Eligibility Requirements
Undergraduate
students who place in the top eighth of their class in their penultimate
year or in the top fifth of their class in their last college
year are eligible for membership consideration. These scholastically
eligible students are further considered on the basis of personal
integrity, breadth of interest both inside and outside engineering,
adaptability, and unselfish activity.
2000
- 2001 Executive Board
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