Tau Beta Pi Chapter Project Report Texas Alpha Chapter Fall 2017 to Spring 2018

Tau Beta Pi Chapter Project Report Texas Alpha Chapter Fall 2017 to Spring 2018 1 Executive Summary The Tau Beta Pi Texas Alpha Chapter at the University of Texas at Austin initiated 40 Tau Beta Pi candidates into our chapter during the 2017-2018 academic year. These members showed integrity and excellence in engineering through the completion of fifteen candidate requirements in tandem with maintenance of outstanding scholastic and extracurricular achievements. Some of those requirements include attending participating in five chapter social events, completing six hours of community service with the chapter, contributing three hours to internal chapter activities like fundraising, and attending at least one fireside hosted by a distinguished faculty member in the Cockrell School of Engineering. This chapter report contains a summary of all 122 events sponsored by our chapter that our candidates participated in. Our diligent, semester long initiation process is designed to insure that our candidates are honorable engineers and not just high-GPA students. The social events provide opportunities for our candidates to develop interdepartmental connections with other high-achieving Cockrell School of Engineering students in the Texas Alpha chapter. Firesides allowed those candidates to connect with, glean valuable insights from and obtain career advice from professors outside a traditional academic setting. Furthermore, our most committed, stressed, and important requirement is the fulfillment of at least nine hours of community service. Although six hours does not seem like a lot, it can become a challenge as our candidates learn to balance TBP activities and their engineering course load during the initiation process. The goal of the community service hours is to motivate our candidates to help the community we all live in, whether it is helping to feed and interact with homeless people, cleaning up our local parks, or tutoring middle schoolers in STEM subjects. In addition, all candidates are broken into teams to set up their own community service projects. Through these teams, the candidates develop personal relationships with engineering students from diverse backgrounds while working together to improve the greater Austin area community. As evidenced from the events put together during both the fall and spring semester, our chapter can already see improvements in our service requirement. In total, Texas Alpha candidates were supposed to complete 512 hours of community service hours, instead they put in more than 650 hours towards the improvement of the Austin community, a good sign that some of our candidates will continue to volunteer. A huge target for the Texas Alpha chapter is education through the K-12 initiative. Every year, Texas Alpha gets involved with Explore UT, a day where K-12 students arrive from across the state to explore the UT Austin campus, and Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, where K-12 girls come to the Cockrell School of Engineering to participate in engineering-related games and activities to develop their interest in pursuing STEM subjects in college. During these events, Texas Alpha has built a trebuchet, a machine used in medieval times, to let the kids launch water balloons and learn about projectile physics. We get to teach history by explaining the medieval uses of the trebuchet, physics by showing how a lever and a counterweight can fling an object in the air, and how much fun it can be to learn about both! Texas Alpha also likes to keep traditions, just like the University of Texas at Austin does. This year we continued to host the Texas Alpha Alumni Tailgate. The Alumni Tailgate, which occurred this year during the Texas vs. San Jose State football game, is not just an opportunity to have a fun time while watching the game, but also to bring Texas Alpha alumni together. By playing some field games 2 like volleyball and cornhole, and eating great barbeque, everyone gets to interact with one another, and share stories and advice. As we move into the chapter’s second century of existence, Texas Alpha strives to promote integrity and excellence in engineering by continuing to have a strict and rigorous initiation process. At the same time, we also try to increase active involvement by giving incentives to continue to participate in TBP events even after initiation. This year, we recognized several active Texas Alpha members who went above and beyond to contribute to the chapter’s social and service activities throughout both semesters. As we move into the chapter’s 2nd century, our officer team and active members will continue to provide an inclusive environment for our membership to develop connections, build their professional experience and improve the local community through community service. 3 Table of Contents and Event Timeline Project Number Event Date of Occurrence Chapter/Social 1 Actives Social 9/8/2017 2 Root Beer Float Social 9/19/2017 3 Bowling at the Union 9/21/2017 4 General Meeting #1 9/21/2017 5 Study Session/Watch Party 9/28/2017 6 General Meeting #2 9/28/2017 7 Picnic in the Park 10/6/2017 8 Swing Dancing 10/12/2017 9 General Meeting #3 10/12/2017 10 Social at Clark Field 10/15/2017 11 Bent Polishing Party 2 10/17/2017 12 Sig Block Party 10/20/2017 13 Swing Dancing Social 2 10/26/2017 14 General Meeting #4 10/26/2017 15 Bent Polishing Party 3 10/31/2017 16 Actives Meeting 11/2/2017 17 State Capitol Visit 11/4/2017 18 Bent Polishing Party 4 11/5/2017 19 Impromptu Board Game Social 11/8/2017 20 Officer Meet and Greet Social 11/9/2017 21 General Meeting #5 11/9/2017 22 Fall Banquet 11/17/2017 23 Posse East Active Social 1/25/2018 24 Actives Meeting 1 1/25/2018 25 Root Beer Float Social 1/30/2018 26 General Meeting #1 2/1/2018 27 Bowling at the Union 2/1/2018 28 Hidden Figures at the Union 2/7/2018 29 Austin Bouldering Project with WPGE 2/11/2018 30 Dodgeball Game 1 2/14/2018 31 Board Game Social 2/15/2018 32 General Meeting #2 2/15/2018 33 Banger's Brunch 2/18/2018 34 Dodgeball Game 2 2/21/2018 35 Dodgeball 3 2/28/2018 36 General Meeting #3 3/1/2018 37 ABC Kite Festival 3/4/2018 38 Roller Skating Through the 80's 3/8/2018 39 Actives Meeting #2 3/22/2018 40 Sig Block Party 3/23/2018 41 Civil War 3/24/2018 42 TBP takes Holi 3/25/2018 43 Urban Air with SWE 3/29/2018 44 The Avengers Billiards Night 3/29/2018 45 Bent Polishing Social 4/1/2018 46 GM#4 4/5/2018 47 Officer Meet and Greet 4/5/2018 48 TBP Camping 4/6/2018 4 49 Greenbelt Hiking 4/8/2018 50 Agents of Shield- Clarke Field Social 4/8/2018 51 Justice League Netflix and Thrill 4/9/2018 52 X-Men Family Social: Blazer Tag 4/12/2018 53 General Meeting #5 4/19/2018 54 Spring Banquet 4/28/2018 55 Lasagna Party 5/6/2018 Community/Liberal Culture 56 UT SureWalk 1 9/17/2017 57 Healing with Horses Ranch Volunteering 9/24/2017 58 TBP Shoal Creek Cleanup 9/30/2017 59 Inside Books Project 10/1/2017 60 UUMC Volunteering 10/5/2017 61 UT Sustainability Squad 10/7/2017 62 Team Mulan Service: Central Texas Food Bank 10/14/2017 63 Feed My People 10/19/2017 64 Austin Community Tree Project 10/21/2017 65 Central Texas food Bank Halloween night 10/31/2017 66 UT SUREWalk Volunteering 11/2/2017 67 UUMC Volunteering 11/2/2017 68 UT SUREWalk 2 11/3/2017 69 Pirates Team Service: Pease Park Clean Up 11/4/2017 70 Lion King Texas Book Festival 11/4/2017 71 Autism Speaks walk 11/4/2017 72 Toy Story Shoal Creek Clean Up 11/5/2017 73 Yellow Bike project 11/6/2017 74 UT SUREWalk 3 11/8/2017 75 Yellow Bike Project 2/5/2018 76 Austin Marathon 2/17/2018 77 Shoal Creek Clean Up 1 3/29/2018 78 Central Texas Food Bank 3/31/2018 79 Yellow Bike Project 4/4/2018 80 Shoal Creek Cleanup #2 4/7/2018 81 UT Microfarm 4/8/2018 82 Feed My People 4/19/2018 Education/Professional Development 83 LinkedIn Profile Event 10/3/2017 84 Fireside with Dr. Haberman 10/10/2017 85 Fireside with Dr. Yankeelov 10/19/2017 86 Fireside with Professor Kane 10/30/2017 87 Engineering Futures Session: Team Chartering 11/5/2017 88 Fireside with Dr. Goodenough 11/7/2017 89 Fireside with Dr. Jah 11/8/2017 90 EXPO Workshop 1/31/2018 91 Fireside Chat with Dr. Grant Willson 2/23/2018 92 Fluor- Lunch and Learn 3/1/2018 93 Etiquette Dinner 3/2/2018 94 Fireside Chat with Dr. Fred Beach 3/27/2018 95 Fireside Chat with Dr. Nichole Rylander 4/3/2018 96 Fireside Chat with Professor Larry Speck 4/10/2018 97 Fireside Chat with Dr. Leonard Moore 4/12/2018 98 Engineering Futures: Analytical Problem Solving 4/15/2018 5 University/College 99 Engineering-Wide/Alumni Tailgate 9/9/2017 100 Burger Burn #1 10/6/2017 101 Intramural Volleyball 1 10/9/2017 102 Intramural Volleyball 2 10/23/2017 103 TBP Charity Carnival 10/27/2017 104 Intramural Volleyball 3 10/30/2017 105 Burger Burn #2 11/1/2017 106 Intramural Volleyball 4 11/6/2017 107 Burger Burn #3 11/15/2017 108 Burger Burn #4 12/4/2017 109 Burger Burn #1 1/24/2018 110 TBP Bake Sale #1 2/26/2018 111 Burger Burn #2 3/7/2018 112 Burger Burn #3 4/2/2018 113 Indoor Soccer 1 4/8/2018 114 Indoor Soccer 2 4/15/2018 115 Burger Burn #4 4/16/2018 116 Indoor Soccer 3 4/22/2018 117 Indoor Soccer 4 4/25/2018 118 Indoor Soccer 5 4/29/2018 119 Indoor Soccer 6 4/30/2018 z K-12/MindSET 120 TBP Girl Day Preparation 2/23/2018 99 121 TBP Girl Day Trebuchet 2/24/2018 100 122 TBP Explore UT 3/3/2018 101 6 Member Timeline Number of members at start of Fall term 114 Number of electees at start of Fall term 81 Number of initiates at Fall Initiation 67 Date of Fall Initiation November 17, 2017 Number of members at start of Spring term 173 Number of electees at start of Spring term

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