Tau Beta Pi (Maryland Delta Chapter) Officers

March 1, 2016

 

UMBC Engineers Week 2016

 

            DiscoverE Engineers Week was celebrated nationally from February 21-27, 2016, and Tau Beta Pi Maryland Delta officers were motivated to plan a successful campus-wide celebration. Tau Beta Pi’s main objective is to promote and recognize engineering excellence, not only for its members and chapter, but also for all engineering organizations and the rest of the UMBC community. The best way to showcase this is through Engineers Week. Here at UMBC, TBP, all the engineering organizations, and the engineering faculty have been collaborating extensively from early October through February to plan our second annual E-Week celebration.

            Throughout E-Week, engineers from all disciplines participate in a variety of events and activities, during which they may build camaraderie and a greater sense of community. Professors, alumni, professionals, and non-STEM majors are actively encouraged to participate as well. A few highlights from our celebration include: Dr. Hrabowski (President of UMBC) as the opening speaker, a fierce and friendly game of dodgeball, and Corey Fleischer (‘05 UMBC mechanical engineering alum and the winner of “The Big Brain Theory” on Discovery Channel). culminating E-Week as the closing speaker. Lastly, all of the engineering majors competed on the last day of the week to overcome a series of engineering challenges and minute-to-win-it games in the Battle of the Engineers to take home the coveted Battle of the Engineers trophy.

            Overall, Tau Beta Pi Maryland Delta and all of the UMBC engineering student organizations involved are honored to have hosted Engineers Week and greatly appreciate all of the support from the College of Engineering and Information Technology and the UMBC community. We hope that the college will continue this wonderful tradition of week-long celebrations and further assimilate Engineers Week to UMBC.

Ken Foo, Chemical Engineering Class of 2016 and President of Tau Beta Pi MD Delta, teaches Bernoulli's Principles through food color siphoning at Let's Get Techy event.