Eleven South Dakota School of Mines and Technology students have been named Tau Beta Pi Scholars for the 2008-2009 academic year. The chapter with next highest numbers of scholars has five.
"This is an outstanding achievement for these students and for our university," School of Mines President Dr. Charles Ruch said. "The selection of these students recognizes their outstanding achievements and abilities and the quality education the School of Mines delivers."
All Tau Beta Pi scholarships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. All scholars are members of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. Each student will receive a $2,000 scholarship.
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 universities, active alumnus chapters in 18 cities across the country, and a total initiated membership of more than 490,000.
The students: Benjamin Bangasser (chemical engineering, New Hope, Minn.), Andrew Brosnahan (mechanical engineering, Lead), Cody Fredricksen (chemical engineering, Rock Springs, Wyo.), Tom Fryslie (electrical engineering/physics, Rapid City), Joshua Hammell (mechanical engineering, Evansville, Wyo.), Shane Heier (electrical engineering, Sioux Falls), Amery Kuhl (mechanical engineering/physics, Worthington, Minn.), Lisa Rebenitsch (computer science, Bismarck, N.D.), Alexander Schmidt, (electrical engineering, Mandan, N.D.) Kajda Stevens, (chemical engineering, Benson, Minn.), Brady Wiesner (civil engineering, Watertown).
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