Tau Beta Pi

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Tau Beta Pi
ORIENTATION MEETING
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Agenda

• Introductions
• What is TBP?
• Who is Eligible?
• Benefits of Membership
• Financial Programs
• Benefits for your Career
• Initiation Requirements for CAE
• Summary

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What is TBP?

• 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.
• 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
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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.

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Benefits of Membership

• Recognition and Honor
• Employment (e.g. MonsterTRAK)
• Life long membership

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Financial Programs

• The Scholarship Program
• The Fellowship Program
• The Student Loan Program
• The Laureate Program

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Benefits for your Career

• Leadership Opportunities
• Networking
• AlumNet

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Initiation Requirements for CAE

• 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.

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Summary

• Congratulations
• It is your choice!
• Requirements for CAE
• Questions