The national engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 by Dr. Edward Higginson Williams Jr. to honor exemplary character as undergraduates in engineering and high achievement in the field of engineering. The Iowa Alpha Chapter of Tau Beta Pi was founded on December 20, 1907 and has since initiated more than 6,000 members.
Tau Beta Pi menbers Dennis A. Muilenburg (BSAerE'86), Leonard C. Rodman (BSCE'71), and Richard H. Stanley (BSME/BSECpE'55) have received the Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor given to Iowa State alumni that recognizes preeminent contributions to their professions or life's work. Click on the names to read more about the recipients of the awards.
Iowa Alpha member Chloe Dedic, a senior in mechanical engineering, was presented with the Wallace E. Barron All-University Senior Award during the Iowa State University Alumni Association's board of director's luncheonon on 24 February 2012.
The year 2010-11 has been a very successful year for the Iowa Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi. Some of the highlights are covered in our Newsletter. We hope you enjoy it. Please contact us if you would like any more information about what our chapter has been up to.
It has been another very eventful year for the Iowa Alpha chapter. Some of the highlights are covered in our Newsletter. We hope you enjoy it. Please contact us if you would like any more information about what our chapter has been up to.
James B. Bushnell, the new head of the Iowa State University Biobased Industry Center and Iowa State University's first Cargill Endowed Chair in Energy Economics is a Tau Beta Pi member. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1989, a master's degree in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990 and a doctorate in industrial engineering and operations research from California, Berkeley in 1993 and was initiated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI A). Following is a link to the announcement of his appointment: <http://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2009/sep/cargillchair>.
Mark Mba Wright, a TBP member and doctoral student in mechanical engineering with a chemical engineering minor, has been awarded the 2009 George Washington Carver Scholarship Prize for Outstanding Student Achievement in Biorenewables. (News release - http://news.engineering.iastate.edu/?p=197)
The Iowa Alpha Chapter of TBP had an exciting and busy year in 2008-09. Please read more about it in our newsletter at the following link: