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Tau Beta Pi Awards $246,000 to 123 ScholarsThe Fellowship Board of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, announces the selection of 123 Tau Beta Pi Scholars from 251 applicants for undergraduate study during the 2006-07 academic year. This represents the largest amount of scholarships awarded in one year since the program was established in 1998. 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 2006-07 Tau Beta Pi Scholars are introduced on the following list.Of the winners, 27 are studying mechanical engineering, 21 electrical engineering, 19 chemical engineering, ten biomedical engineering, eight civil engineering, five computer engineering, five materials science & engineering, four aerospace engineering, and two each are studying industrial engineering, metallurgical engineering, and computer science. 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 NagelScholarships 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. Mr. Dodson passed away in 2003 at the age of 96. The Tau Beta Pi–Soderberg Scholarship, awarded for the eighth consecutive year, is sponsored by Elsa and Peter Soderberg, CT A ’68. The Stabile Scholarship is named for Vincent A. Stabile, NY L ’40, whose gift to the Association in 1999 will permanently endow this award.The Record Scholarships, awarded for the first time in 2001, commemorates Leroy E. Record, KS A ’29, whose generous bequest will provide earnings to support awards in perpetuity.Ruth M. and Cleveland L. Campbell, P.E., IA A ’47, sponsored matching gifts in 2003 and 2005, and made an additional gift in 2004 to provide the CampbellScholarships.The Mentor Scholarship is given in honor of “Te Ram Bi Ta Zo,” who influenced James P. Tarwater, MO B ’51. The Winkler Scholarships are named for Albert H. Winkler, AZ B ’75, who left a bequest to the Society in 2004. The ScribnerScholarships are named for A. Clayton Scribner, NY G ’29, whose gift to the Association in 2003 permanently endows the awards.In 2005, Henry M. Alford, MS A ’27, left a bequest to the Association sufficient to endow permanently the Alford Scholarship. The Quigley Scholarship commemorates John J. Quigley, PA Z ’58, who left a bequest to the Society in 2005.The 2005 Distinguished Alumnus Scholarship is named for Dr. H. Vincent Poor, AL A ’72, who was recognized at the 2005 Convention.The remaining three 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 sixth time this year. The Fluor Scholarship, also awarded for the sixth time, is sponsored by a gift from the Fluor Foundation. General Motors made a gift in 2005 to sponsor the fourth General Motors Scholarship._________________________________________________________________________________Tau Beta Pi is the National Engineering Honor Society, founded at Lehigh University in 1885. It has collegiate chapters at 230 engineering colleges in the United States and active alumnus chapters in 17 cities. It has initiated more than 482,000 members in its 121-year history and is the world’s largest engineering society. (See www.tbp.org).
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