Representatives from West Virginia University’s student chapter of Tau Beta Pi, a national engineering honorary, have been recognized by the national organization.
Erika Allen, a senior chemical engineering major from Wheeling, was named a Tau Beta Pi Scholar. The $2,000 scholarship was awarded based on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. Allen, who will serve as the chapter’s president in 2015-2016, has conducted internships with Access Midstream and Williams as well as a co-op with MeadWestvaco. She is also a member of the WVU student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, served as a Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources Freshman Engineering Learning Center tutor and as a mentor for the WVU Preparing to Achieve Student Success program.
Melissa Morris, teaching assistant professor in freshman engineering and WVU chapter advisor, has been named district director for District Four, which includes West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Washington D.C. District directors supply the frequent, personal interaction that the national organization feels is a necessary ingredient for the health of the chapters. She will be responsible for the chapters at WVU, WVU Tech, Virginia Tech, University of Virginia and Virginia Military Institute. Morris recently won the Nick Evans award for advising from WVU and was the recipient of the WVU Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching.
Founded in 1885, Tau Beta Pi is the second oldest Greek-letter honor society in America. The society was founded when the nation’s oldest honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, sought to restrict its membership to students in the liberal arts.
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