Texas Eta Chapter
IMPORTANT INFORMATION:
Induction Ceremony: Nov 21
(Time: Initiation Ceremony from 4:00-5:00PM, and the Banquet from 6:00-
8:00PM, Please assemble in the first floor of Nedderman Hall 1st floor
at 3:30PM). Invitation emails have also been sent
out.
Submission Deadline: 31 Oct, 2009
Breaking News: The Chi Epsilon Highway Cleanup has been postponed to November 7, which is after our submission deadline. If you were waiting on this opportunity, then please look for other avenues for completing the second social work project. Mission Arlington should be a good place to look for it.
>Pictures of Bent Polishing, Park Cleanup & Cookout are here!! Click this link.
Files and Sandpaper for polishing your bent are available for rent from our office.
Second community service
opportunity: A second opportunity to do a community service project
will be on Saturday, 24 October, working with Chi Epsilon, the CE honor
society. It is a litter pickup along Pioneer Parkway between Fielder
and Bowen. It is tentatively planned for 10 am.
Office hours have
been posted : Click
Here!
Note for graduate candidates: The deadline to
submit the 50% course completion letter is October 9. (Download
example letter)
Park cleanup on Oct 17 (Saturday) : Click here
Information about the park cleanup project: This semester we will be
cleaning the JW Dunlop Park (at 1500 NW Green Oaks Blvd), on Saturday,
October 17 at 9:00 AM. Please report near the Big Bent(between
Nedderman Hall and Woolf Hall) at 8:00 AM. We will be
joined by Eta Kappa Nu candidates from UTA as well. We will be helping
the Arlington Parks and Recreation Department with painting lightpoles
and maintaining playgrounds at the park. You are advised to wear old
clothes you won't mind getting dirty or full of paint, on the day of
park cleanup.
Click here to check your name in the
list of candidates invited for membership in Fall 2009.
If you missed the orientation and the Pizza party, please get in touch
with one of the officers or Dr Jim William by email!
For
all candidates: Download the character reference request letter
Tau Beta Pi Membership Eligibility
Tau Beta Pi collegiate chapters elect men and women who have distinguished themselves with outstanding scholarship and character.
Distinguished Scholarship: High academic achievement as a student, or eminent professional achievement, is the first eligibility requirement for election to Tau Beta Pi. Students in the upper eighth of their junior engineering class or in the upper fifth of their senior or graduate engineering classes are eligible for consideration for membership in their college's Tau Beta Pi chapter. Through its high academic standards, Tau Beta Pi encourages all students to strive for academic excellence, and it holds up as models of professional excellence those few individuals who are invited to membership because of their distinction in engineering achievement.
Exemplary Character: The second eligibility requirement for Tau Beta Pi is good character. A Tau Bate has personal integrity, a wide range of interests, adaptability, and participates unselfishly in community and volunteer activities.
Each Spring and Fall semester, just after census date, the UTA Eta chapter gathers the list of eligible juniors, seniors, and graduate students from the engineering department. The engineering department builds the list based on GPA. Letters are sent to the candidates' homes of record announcing their candidacy based on academic achievement. Lists of the eligible candidates are also posted around Nedderman Hall and Woolf Hall as well as on this website. Candidates wishing to join the Eta chapter must then prove their characters by participating in activities and attending events as described by the induction requirements set by the chapter officers each semester.
Financial Resources
Tau Beta Pi chapters sponsor numerous projects which emphasize the Society's objectives, recognizing outstanding engineering students and professionals and encouraging the interest of engineers in non-technical fields, the college, and the community.
Through its national programs, Tau Beta Pi grants fellowship , scholarship , and laureate awards , makes educational loans to its members, encourages students involvement in non-technical activities, and provides excellent leadership training opportunities.
The Fellowship Program has provided $3,477,000 in stipends for the graduate study to 760 members since 1929.
Financial assistance from Tau Beta Pi's Students Loan Fund is available to members who might otherwise be unable to remain in college or are unable to pay the initiation fee. More than 1,736 loans have been made totaling more than $757,000.
Tau Beta Pi's Laureate Program awards cash grants of $2,500 to students members who have excelled in extracurricular activities and engineering studies.
The Engineering Futures Program provides trained instructors to teach interpersonal and leadership development skills to student members.