College of Engineering
Tennessee Tech students initiated into prestigious engineering honor society
On April 3, 2022, the Tennessee Tech University chapter of the engineering honor society
Tau Beta Pi welcomed 29 College of Engineering students into its ranks.
Tau Beta Pi is the second-oldest honor society in the United States, founded in 1885 to recognize outstanding achievement from all engineering disciplines. In order to join, students must be of exemplary character and in the top eighth of their junior class or top fifth of their senior class of all engineering students, making Tau Beta Pi one of the most prestigious and exclusive honor societies in the country. Included among Tau Beta Pi’s more than 600,000 members are 12 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 22 Nobel laureates, 72 astronauts, 14 state governors and more than 20 Olympic and professional athletes.
Tennessee Tech’s College of Engineering is one of 248 engineering colleges in the US to host a Tau Beta Pi chapter. Tennessee Tech’s chapter, Tennessee Gamma, was founded in February 1968 and has more than 2,400 members. Chapter advisers for Tennessee Gamma are Professors J.W. Bruce of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Sally Pardue of Mechanical Engineering.
The newest members of the Tennessee Gamma chapter of Tau Beta Pi include:
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Bruce Cunningham (Sparta, TN)
- Kennley Gabel (La Vergne, TN)
Chemical Engineering
- Tate Fraley (Cookeville, TN)
- Luke Horne (Whitewood, VA)
- Renie Morrow (Mountain City, TN)
- Kishan Patel (Linden, TN)
- Russell Perry (Johnson City, TN)
- Jacob Queen (Cleveland, TN)
- Benjamin Terhune (Mt. Juliet, TN)
- Mayu Uno (Cookeville, TN)
- Kie Workman (Thompson’s Station, TN)
Computer Engineering
- Nicholas Davis (Mt. Pleasant, TN
- Samuel Gardner (Salem, IL)
- Kester Nucum (Paris, TN)
- Daniel Summers (Friendsville, TN)
Electrical Engineering
- Brennan Angus (Spring Hill, TN)
- Nicholas Garner (Columbia, TN)
- Evan Hildner (Mt. Pleasant, TN)
- Madison Kelly (Kingsport, TN)
Mechanical Engineering
- Abanoub Aziz (Antioch, TN)
- Richmond Boone (Cookeville, TN)
- Nikolas Brothers (Joelton, TN)
- Austin Day (Lebanon, TN)
- Harrison Hoffman (Smyrna, TN)
- Nathaniel Lee (Monterey, TN)
- Hugo Morales (Morristown, TN)
- Luke Olson (Franklin, TN)
- Grayson Vermillion (Johnson City, TN)
- Pierce Wooten (Chattanooga, TN)
