Aaron Hartwell, a civil engineering student from Rapid City, has been awarded a Tau Beta Pi Fellowship for the 2007-2008 academic year. All Tau Beta Pi Fellowships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. All fellows are members of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society.
Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. It is the nation's second-oldest honor society, founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to recognize students of distinguished scholarship and exemplary character. There are now collegiate chapters at 232 U.S. colleges and universities, active alumnus chapters in 18 cities across the country, and a total initiated membership of more than 490,000.