TAU BETA PI AWARDS 29 FELLOWSHIPS FOR 1996-97

Twenty-nine young engineering graduates have been selected from 256 applicants by Tau Beta Pi's Fellowship Board for graduate fellowships in 1996-97. Twenty-four of this year's winners will receive cash stipends of $10,000 for their advanced study; the others do not need financial aid from Tau Beta Pi. More than $2,870,000 in stipends will have been given by the society when this 63rd group of winners completes its graduate work. All Tau Beta Pi Fellowships are awarded on the competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. All fellows are members of Tau Beta Pi and may do their graduate work at any institution they choose.
Nine of the winners will study electrical engineering, six chemical engineering, five civil engineering, three mechanical engineering, two environmental engineering, and four have chosen other individual areas.
Given for the 12th time, the Centennial Fellowship honors the Society's most outstanding fellow.
The Charles H. Spencer Fellowship is given for the 41st time. Named for Tau Beta Pi's national president in 1936-47, it is awarded to that winner whose contributions to his or her collegiate chapter are judged worthy of commendation.
The Harold M. King Fellowship, awarded for the 35th time, honors the 1954-58 President of Tau Beta Pi and is given to that winner whose participation in his or her technical society is judged worthy of special mention.
Four Tau Beta Pi-James Fife Fellowships are presented in memory of the father of the late member William Fife.
The Tau Beta Pi-Sigma Tau award, given for the 23rd time, perpetuates the name of Sigma Tau, national engineering honor society founded at the University of Nebraska in 1904 and merged into Tau Beta Pi in 1974. It also commemorates Sigma Tau's former national president and secretary-treasurer, Clarel B. Mapes.
The Donald A. Stark Fellowship is supported by a gift from a charitable trust named for the man who contributed much to progress in the fluid-power industry.
The Edward H. Williams Jr. Fellowship honors the founder of Tau Beta Pi and is given to a winner who plans to earn a doctoral degree and become a professional engineering teacher, as was Dr. Williams. It is awarded for the 17th time.
The Walter E. Deuchler Sr. Fellowship, presented for the 17th time, is given to a winner whose work is to be in civil, urban, or environmental engineering.
The Astronauts Fellowship is awarded for the third time, and it commemorates the three members of Tau Beta Pi who died in the Challenger explosion in 1986: Ellison S. Onizuka, CO B '69; Judith A. Resnik, PA G '70; and F. Richard Scobee, AZ A '65.
The Tau Beta Pi-Maddox Fellowship, given for the first time, is named in honor of Arthur Maddox, Oklahoma Alpha '30, who bequeathed a significant gift to the Society.

These awards bring the total to 912 fellowships granted since the program was inaugurated in 1929. The 1996-97 Tau Beta Pi Fellows are introduced on the following page.