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December 20, 2021
The Mississippi State chapter of Tau Beta Pi, an honors society for engineering students, recently added 38 new members during its fall induction ceremony.
Open to all engineering concentrations, Tau Beta Pi invites students based on grade point average and major-specific requirements.
“This semester, we returned many of the initiation traditions, such as prospective members obtaining faculty signatures to confirm their high scholastic achievement and exemplary character,” said Matthew Priddy, the Tau Beta Pi chapter advisor and assistant professor of mechanical engineering in MSU’s Bagley College of Engineering. “We were also able to honor the initiates with a post-initiation dinner in the Union Ballroom. The dinner was sponsored by Ray Dillon, a Mississippi State alumnus and fellow Tau Bate. His generosity allowed us to celebrate these initiates in a way that is deserving of their success in and outside of the classroom.”
Tau Beta Pi is the oldest universal engineering honor society and the second oldest honor society in the United States. It was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 and has over 248 chapters and 594,000 members at colleges and universities today. Mississippi State’s chapter, Mississippi Alpha, was established in 1928 and was the first chapter in Mississippi.
This semester’s inductees include:
Samuel Benjamin Bates – Mechanical engineering
Zachary Hull Boyles – Mechanical engineering
Levi Raye Brady – Mechanical engineering
Samuel Kelly Carpenter – Civil engineering
Stephanie Marie Cates – Biomedical engineering
Tai Wai Cheng – Mechanical engineering
Kailey Nicole Clinton – Biomedical engineering
Courtney NiCole Cochran – Chemical engineering
Hubert Williams Couch – Biomedical engineering
William A Crider – Mechanical engineering
Padyn Callie Davis – Biomedical engineering
Haley Anne Delcher – Biomedical engineering
Andrew Max Donald – Electrical engineering
Connor Bryce Douglas – Computer science
Mackenzie Danyel Ellenberger – Computer engineering
Kyler Ashton Farrar – Computer engineering
Tanner Morrow Hess – Software engineering
Cody Stephen Hudson – Electrical engineering
Sophie Elizabeth Jones – Biomedical engineering
Dong Min Kang – Industrial engineering
Kevin Nathan Liao – Computer science
Arlene Lopez – Biomedical engineering
Dalton Reece Lovitt – Software engineering
Brandon Shelby Lynchard – Computer science
Wilson Andres Martinez Diaz – Software engineering
Nathan Manh-Truong Ngo – Biomedical engineering
Xavier Jordan Person – Biomedical engineering
Nicholas Andrew Pritchard – Chemical engineering
Marlie Nicole Riddell – Mechanical engineering
Mae Lizabeth Riffel – Chemical engineering
Miguel Mauricio Rivera Alonzo – Mechanical engineering
Matthew Joseph Sinclair – Mechanical engineering
Kyler Sheldon Smith – Computer engineering
Brian Michael Sullivan – Mechanical engineering
Walker Joseph Thames – Electrical engineering
Alayna Lynn Todd – Chemical engineering
Xuan Quyen Tran – Chemical engineering
Margaret Kayleigh White – Industrial engineering
The Bagley College of Engineering is online at www.bagley.msstate.edu and can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube at @msuengineering.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.
By Philip Allison
Category: News, Newsroom, Organizations & Teams, Recognition, Undergraduate