Tau Beta Pi Awards 39 Scholarships  

Tau Beta Pi’s Fellowship Board announces the selection of 39 Tau Beta Pi Scholars from 234 applicants for undergraduate study during the 2003-2004 academic year. 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, the engineering honor society.

The 2003-04 Tau Beta Pi Scholars are introduced on the following list.

Twelve of the winners are studying mechanical engineering, six chemical engineering, three (each) architectural, civil, computer, and electrical engineering, two in bioengineering, and the others are studying bioengineering/computer systems engineering, electrical engineering/chemistry, mechanical engineering/chemistry, and aeronautical/astronautical, biomedical electrical, computer/telecommunications, and industrial engineering.

All scholarships this year are named for members and corporations. The Nagel Scholarship is 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 fifth 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 Scholarships, awarded for the first time in 2001, are sponsored by Leroy E. Record, KS A ’29, whose bequest funded the Record Scholarship Fund to provide earnings to support awards in perpetuity.

Ruth M. and Cleveland L. Campbell, IA A ’47, made a gift in 2002 to sponsor the second Campbell Scholarship.

The DeFries Scholarship is funded by the Mary E. DeFries Education Scholarship Fund, named for the late wife of H.A. DeFries, NY G ’50.

The Honig Scholarship is named for the late Dr. Emmanuel M. Honig, TX B ’70, in whose honor a large memorial donation was made in 2002. The Utt Scholarship is named for Charles J. Utt, IN A ’50, who left a bequest to the Society in 2003.

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 fourth time this year. The Fluor Scholarship, awarded for the third time, is sponsored by a gift from the Fluor Foundation. General Motors and Duke Energy Foundation made gifts in 2002 to sponsor the first General Motors and Duke Energy Scholarships.