Tau Beta Pi Awards 16 Scholarships  

April, 2001 - Tau Beta Pi’s Fellowship Board announces the selection of 16 Tau Beta Pi Scholars from 67 applicants for undergraduate study during the 2001-2002 academic year. (List of Scholars) Each winner will receive a cash award of $2,000 for his or her senior year of engineering study. All Tau Beta Pi Scholarships are awarded on the competitive basis of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. All scholars are members of Tau Beta Pi.Four of the winners are studying chemical engineering, four are studying electrical engineering, three are studying mechanical engineering, and the others are studying biomedical (2), civil (2), and industrial engineering.
All scholarships this year are named for members and corporations. The Nagel Scholarships are given in honor of former Secretary–Treasurer Emeritus R. H. Nagel. Named Editor of THE BENT in 1942, he became Secretary–Treasurer and Editor in 1947 and served until October 1982 when he was named Secretary–Treasurer Emeritus. Mr. Nagel died in 1997 at the age of 79.The Dodson Scholarships are sponsored by Charles R. Dodson, MD B ’30, who made a generous gift to the Association in 1998. Placed in the C.R. Dodson Scholarship/Fellowship Fund, its investment earnings will support the program in perpetuity.The Tau Beta Pi–Soderberg Scholarship, awarded for the third consecutive year, commemorates Elsa and Peter Soderberg, CT A ’68.The Stabile Scholarship is named for Vincent A. Stabile, NY L ’40, whose gift made to the Association in 1999 will permanently endow this award. The Record Scholarship, awarded for the first time, is funded by a bequest from the estate of Leroy E. Record, KS A '29.The remaining four scholarships are sponsored by corporations. The Alabama Power Foundation, Inc., made a gift in 1995 which is now sufficient to endow an Alabama Power Scholarship, which was awarded for the second time this year. The three newest corporate scholarships, Fluor, Jacobs, and Merck, are sponsored by gifts from the Fluor Foundation, Jacobs Engineering Group (CEO, Dr. Joseph J. Jacobs, NY R '37), and Merck & Co., inc., respectively.