Tau Beta Pi Wins Award, and Advisor MingDe Lin Elected to Board

The Yale chapter of Tau Beta Pi recently received an award from the national engineering honor society. Also, MingDe Lin, one of its advisors, was elected to the national organization’s board of directors.

The “Chapter Excellence” award was given to the Yale chapter “for outstanding member engagement, headquarters reporting, and chapter operations.”

Also, at the organization’s annual “Unvention,” MingDe Lin, assistant professor adjunct of radiology & biomedical imaging, was elected to the national Tau Beta Pi’s Association’s Executive Council for a three-year term, which began this month. Dr. Lin has been a chapter advisor and served as president and director of the Central Connecticut Alumni Chapter. As a Councillor, Lin said he plans to instill a greater connection between alumni and collegiate Tau Beta Pi members, to explore the role Tau Beta Pi can play in equality and inclusiveness, and to encourage new membership.

Tau Beta Pi is the second-oldest honor society in the United States, with active chapters at 248 U.S. colleges and universities with a total initiated membership of about 594,000. The society was founded when the nation's oldest honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, sought to restrict its membership to students in the liberal arts.