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Tau Beta Pi is a leading honor society founded to recognize engineering students of superior scholarship and outstanding character, as well as engineers of eminent achievement. Your scholastic achievements have won the consideration of your fellow students, completing the first step in the initiation process.
Beyond distinguished scholarship, however, TBP members demonstrate exemplary character. Tau Bates are honest, well-rounded people who meet high standards.
Purpose: Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 by Dr. Edward H. Williams, Jr., 'to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as undergraduates in engineering, or by their attainments as alumni in the field of engineering, and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges’ (preamble to the Constitution)
- Responsible students with distinguished scholarship are eligible for consideration for membership in their college’s chapter.
- Good character is the second requirement. A Tau Bate has personal integrity, a wide range of interests, adaptability, and participates unselfishly in volunteer activities.
Membership: More than 445,000 members have been initiated into 221 chapters since it’s inception. We belong to District 2 along with other chapters from New York and New Jersey. Since 1907, the national headquarters has been located on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
Who is Eligible?
- Undergraduate students whose scholarship places them in the top eighth of their class in their next-to-last (usually junior) year or in the top fifth of their class in their last (usually senior) college year are eligible for membership consideration. These scholastically eligible students are further considered on the basis of personal integrity, breadth of interest both inside and outside engineering, adaptability, and unselfish activity.
- Engineering graduate students whose scholarship places them in the top fifth of their graduate class or whose high-quality work is attested to by a faculty member may be elected to membership.
- Alumni of the chapter's institution who were scholastically eligible as students. Alumni of other institutions who were scholastically eligible as students.
- Persons who have achieved eminence in engineering may be elected to membership without regard to collegiate records. If they graduated from a recognized engineering college, they must have been engaged in engineering for at least 10 years; if not, they must have practiced engineering for at least 15 years. Such candidates are usually recommended by members who know them. The required degree of eminent achievement is left to the chapters' discretion; and candidates are further considered on the basis of exemplary character.
Benefits of Membership
- Recognition: Tau Beta Pi is regarded in academe and industry as the standard of excellence. It is the only engineering honor society to represent ALL disciplines, and thus is a highly recognizable honor to all engineering professionals, regardless of their specific major. The scholastic requirements are the highest of any engineering honor society.
- Members are known for their outstanding performance records and limitless potential. Prospective employers know that members of TBP have exceptional character and possess both technical and management skills.
- Life-long Membership: Tau Beta Pi provides lifelong opportunities for recognition and honor, networking, and service. Your one-time initiation fee is your lifetime membership cost and provides your certificate, key, one-year subscription to the student newsletter, THE BULLETIN, and four-year subscription to our excellent quarterly magazine, THE BENT. It also finances our Convention and pays for your chapter’s projects.
For more information go to www.tbp.org or email our chapter at tbp.nyb@gmail.com. |
