Society Headquarters, Knoxville, Tennessee. Website: http://www.tbp.org

With an initiated membership of approximately half a million men and women, Tau Beta Pi is the world's largest engineering society. It is the only U. S. engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. Founded in 1885, there are now collegiate chapters at 232 U. S. colleges and universities and active alumni chapters in 16 districts across the country. The association's purpose is to recognize those of distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as college undergraduates in the field of engineering, or by their attainments as alumni in the field of engineering, and to foster a “spirit of liberal culture” in America’s engineering schools.

There are many reasons to follow these links to our honorees. You may want to learn more about these outstanding individuals and perhaps become a better mentor or advisor yourself. You may wish to add your own congratulations! You may want to renew a former acquaintance.

A sincere effort is maintained to keep this information, including contacts, up to date. However, the individual's or institutions' own web sites and directory listings should also prove helpful.

Titles and affiliations are listed as at the time of each award.

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2006 – Carter J. Kerk, Ph.D., P.E.; South Dakota Alpha Chapter

First Tau Beta Pi Honoree

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Rapid City, South Dakota.

Website: http://www.hpcnet.org/sdsmt/directory/personnel/ckerk

2007 – Thomas C. Sheahan, Sc.D., P.E.; Massachusetts Epsilon Chapter

Professor and Chair, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Northeastern University; Boston, Massachusetts.

Website: http://www1.coe.neu.edu/~tsheahan/index.htm

2008 – Steven M. Cramer, Ph.D.; Wisconsin Alpha Chapter

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin; Madison, Wisconsin.

Website: http://www.engr.wisc.edu/cee/faculty/cramer_steven.html

2009 – Thomas E. Wade, Ph.D.; Florida Gamma Chapter

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida.

Website: http://ee.eng.usf.edu/Faculty&Staff/profile.asp?id=25

2010 – Donna S. Reese, Ph.D.; Mississippi Alpha Chapter

Associate Dean for Academics and Professor, Bagley College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, Mississipi State, Mississippi.

Website: http://www.cse.msstate.edu/~dreese

2011 – William R. Goodin, Ph.D.; California Epsilon Chapter

Director, Short Course Program and Technical Management Program, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension, Los Angeles, California.

Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/tmp/r/aboutUs.aspx

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Top Row: (L) Award program medallion, obverse. (C1) Prof. Donna Reese in 2010 during 125th-year convention celebration in Pennsylvania, the first woman to receive the Tau Beta Pi McDonald Mentoring Award. (C2) Initial Tau Beta Pi honoree, Dr. Carter Kerk, receiving his medal from Marion McDonald during association's 2006 national conference in Colorado. (R1) Tau Beta Pi 2009 honoree, Prof. Thomas Wade and Mrs. Wade. (R2) Tau Beta Pi President, Prof. Larry Simonson, congratulating awardee Prof. Tom Sheahan during the 2007 convention in Michigan.

Sidebar: All awardees pictured, in order of list, "Honorees by Tau Beta Pi" of this page. These followed by Tau Beta Pi perpetual plaque at the Tennessee headquarters, recognizing awardees through 2009.

This Web site and all images it contains are being used for limited and noncommercial purposes, principally teaching and personal mentorship. Several Tau Beta Pi images © 2006-2008 The Tau Beta Pi Association, Inc. McDonald Mentoring Award medallion art © 2005 Capers W. McDonald.

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