PULLMAN, Wash.–Two Washington State University engineering students will receive educational support for the 2008-09 academic year from the national engineering honor society Tau Beta Pi.
Brian J. Walkenhauer, a graduate student in Civil Engineering, is one of 35 national recipients of a $10,000 Tau Beta Pi fellowship. With his stipend, he will continue his research with David McLean examining shear failure behavior of partially grouted masonry shear walls to make recommendations for future code requirements. Walkenhauer is from Yakima.
Brian D. Carlton, an undergraduate in Civil Engineering, is one of 36 undergraduate students chosen to receive $2,000 to support his senior year of study. Carlton, a native of Seattle, is currently an intern with TetraTech in Seattle and will spend the second half of the summer in Santiago, Chile, working as an intern for Arup. He plans on attending graduate school in civil engineering after graduation in May 2009 and would like to work for either Engineers Without Borders, the Peace Corps or a Catholic charity organization.
Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885. It has collegiate chapters at 234 engineering colleges in the U.S and active alumnus chapters in 18 cities. It has initiated nearly 500,000 members in its 123-year history and is the world’s largest engineering society.
