The Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, inducted 32 new members at Brown University in a ceremony held Wednesday, Nov. 19. Twenty juniors were inducted along with 12 seniors.
The 20 juniors elected were Quentin Baron (biomedical engineering), Brian Cheong (biomedical engineering), Ryan Dang (computer engineering), William Havard (materials science and engineering), Lauren Hogan (chemical engineering), Benjamin Jamal (biomedical engineering), Alyson Jiang (electrical engineering), Baurice Kovatchev (electrical engineering), Talia Lang (biomedical engineering), James Lee (chemical engineering), Kelly Lin (computer engineering), Helen Primis (mechanical engineering), Akash Raghunathan (mechanical engineering), Luca Salerno Uriarte (electrical engineering), William Stone (computer engineering), Angeline Sun (biomedical engineering), Eliza Tabachnik (mechanical engineering), Alexander Wang (computer engineering), Taohan Wang (mechanical engineering), and Jonathan Zhao (materials science and engineering).
The 12 seniors selected were Alicia Chandler (materials science and engineering), Joseph DePinho (chemical engineering), Narek Harutyunyan (computer engineering), Rehaan Irani (mechanical engineering), Tristan Keyser-Parker (mechanical engineering), Tosten Pearson (materials science and engineering), Zachary Rosoff (mechanical engineering), Thomas Seidel (electrical engineering), Fan Ze Wang (biomedical engineering), Keertana Yalamanchili (biomedical engineering), Ya Meng Zhang (engineering physics), and Henry Zheng (biomedical engineering).
In order to be inducted into the prestigious honor society, juniors must rank in the top eighth of their class and seniors must rank in the top fifth of their class. Tau Beta Pi is the world’s largest engineering society with more than 640,000 members and 257 collegiate chapters.
Tau Beta Pi, founded in 1885, is the second oldest Greek-letter honor society in America; the oldest is Phi Beta Kappa. While Phi Beta Kappa is restricted to students in the liberal arts, Tau Beta Pi is designed to “offer appropriate recognition for superior scholarship and exemplary character to students in engineering.”
The Rhode Island Alpha chapter is an honor society for outstanding engineering students, and it also provides a vehicle for these students to assume a role of leadership at Brown and to be of distinctive service. Tau Beta Pi members are active in a variety of other engineering student organizations, and members also lead prospective engineering student tours of Barus and Holley and the Engineering Research Center.