Tau Beta Pi Awards 40 Scholarships  

Tau Beta Pi’s Fellowship Board announces the selection of 40 Tau Beta Pi Scholars from 643 applicants for undergraduate study during the 2004-05 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 criteria 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 2004-05 Tau Beta Pi Scholars are introduced on the following list.

Ten of the winners are studying electrical engineering, seven chemical engineering, five mechanical engineering, four computer engineering, and two biomedical engineering. The others are studying various areas of engineering and combinations of engineering and science.

All scholarships this year are named for members or 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 Scholarship is 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. Mr. Dodson passed away in 2003 at the age of 96.
The Tau Beta Pi–Soderberg Scholarship, awarded for the sixth consecutive year, commemorates Elsa and Peter Soderberg, CT A ’68.

The Record Scholarships, awarded for the first time in 2001, are sponsored by Leroy E. Record, KS A ’29, whose generous bequest will provide earnings to support awards in perpetuity.

Ruth M. and Cleveland L. Campbell, IA A ’47, sponsored a matching gift in 2003 to provide the Campbell Scholarships.

The Mentor Scholarship is given in honor of “Te Ram Bi Ta Zo,” who influenced James P. Tarwater, MO B ’51. The Scott Scholarship is named for Thomas M. Scott, OH B ’49, who left a bequest to the Society in 2002. The Scribner Scholarship is named for A. Clayton Scribner, NY G ’29, whose gift to the Association in 2003 permanently endows this award.

The 2003 Distinguished Alumnus Scholarships are named for Drs. Irwin M. Jacobs, NY D ’56, and Daniel D. Reneau, LA G ’63, who were recognized at the 2003 Convention.

The remaining three scholarships are sponsored by corporations. The Fluor Scholarship, awarded for the fourth time, is sponsored by a gift from the Fluor Foundation. General Motors and Duke Energy Foundation made gifts in 2003 to sponsor the second General Motors and Duke Energy Scholarships.