Source: Richard Gallagher, 785-532-5590, rrgllghr@k-state.edu
News release prepared by: Megan Wilson, 785-532-6415, media@k-state.edu
Friday, May 2, 2008
FIVE K-STATE ENGINEERING STUDENTS EARN NATIONAL TAU BETA PI SCHOLARSHIPS
MANHATTAN -- Five students from the College of Engineering at Kansas State University have been awarded $2,000 Tau Beta Pi scholarships.
The scholarships are awarded by the Tau Beta Pi Association, which is a national engineering honorary. The awards are based on high scholarship, strong faculty recommendations, definite extracurricular contributions, unusual promise of substantial achievement through a definite plan or purpose, and a program through which accomplishment will advance the interest of the engineering profession. Only Tau Beta Pi members are eligible for the scholarships.
Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to recognize students of distinguished scholarship and exemplary character. It has chapters at 234 U.S. colleges and universities, including K-State. It is open to all engineering majors and represents the entire engineering profession.
Tau Beta Pi Scholarship recipients include:
Austin Pfannenstiel, senior in electrical engineering, Hutchinson; Lisa Beck, fifth-year senior in architectural engineering, Leavenworth; Derek Woodman, senior in computer engineering, Parsons; and Jon Oakes, junior in mechanical engineering, Wamego.
From out of state: Jay Reimer, junior in biological and agricultural engineering, Beatrice, Neb.