TAU BETA PI FELLOWSHIPS ANNOUNCED

The Fellowship Board of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, announces the selection of 30 engineering students from 408 applicants for graduate fellowships in 2020-21. All of this year's recipients will receive cash stipends of $10,000 for advanced study.

Fellowships were awarded to the following member(s) of Biomedical Engineering Society: Kevin M. Blum, Shreedevi Kumar, Erica K. Wagner

More than $7,600,000 in stipends will have been given by the Society when this 87th group of fellows completes its graduate work. All Tau Beta Pi Fellowships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.

All fellows are members of Tau Beta Pi and may do their graduate work at any institution they choose. These awards bring the total to 1,706 fellowships granted since the program was inaugurated in 1929.

This year's recipients will study various fields of engineering, including five biomedical, four each in chemical and mechanical, three materials science and engineering, two each in bioengineering, electrical, and environmental. The others have chosen to study aeronautics & astronautics engineering, aerospace engineering, civil engineering, computational neuroscience, electrical and computer engineering, electrochemical engineering, electromagnetics, and operations research. 

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