On November 26th, 2019, Chi Epsilon held its annual pie eating contest. Winners for the second straight year were Andrew Agresto and Austin Farnum. Representing Theta Tau and coming in second were juniors Axel and John. Finally, coming in third were junior members Hunter Kelly and Robert Dinger. Congratulations to all that won and we look forward to hosting this event again next year.
Bob Dinger and Hunter Kelly
Austin Farnum and Andrew Agresto
Theta Tau team won second place
On November, 23rd, Chi Epsilon had its 2nd Fall Induction Ceremony. The first part of the ceremony consisted of the student inductees being inducted as student members. These students consisted of Andrew Agresto, John Costello, Robert Dinger, Mark Esposito, Austin Farnum, Alexander Iorio, Hunter Kelly, Amanda Stephenson, John Thompson and Sofia Zapata. Next, the alumni members were inducted. The alumni inducted were Nicholas Izzo (‘13), PE, Jeffrey Laux (‘11), PE, Ashley Napovier (‘14), and Edward Wilkes (‘07), PE. After this, Raymond Mankbadi, PE was inducted as a chapter honor member. Finally, Erin Lafferty (’18) and Lauren Santullo (’17) were both inducted as chapter trustees. Congratulations to all that were inducted.
After the ceremony, a banquet was held. Chi Epsilon would like to thank the civil engineering faculty, chapter honor members and Dean Scheiner for attending the ceremony and banquet.
Inductees: Ed Wilkes, John Thompson, Andrew Agresto, Ray Mankbadi, Mark Esposito, John Costello, Bob Dinger, Austin Farnum, Amanda Stephenson, Alex Iorio, Sofia Zapata, Hunter Kelly, Nick Izzo, Jeff Laux, Ashley Napovier
On Wednesday, November 13th, Chi Epsilon held E-Board elections for the upcoming pledge class. Listed below is the new E-Board for the class of 2021.
President – Hunter Kelley
Vice President – John Costello
Treasurer – Andrew Agresto
Secretary – Sofia Zapata Echeverr
Marshal – Alexander Iorio
Editor – Mark Esposito
Congratulations to all that won positions.
On Saturday, November 9th, members of Chi Epsilon participated in a community service event at the Watershed Institute in Pennington, NJ. Members were tasked with moving trees to a deer sanctuary. Members also cleared and spread seeds in the forest. This continues Chi Epsilon’s relationship with the Watershed Institute as we have now volunteered with the organization multiple times. In all, Chi Epsilon is proud to give back to the local community once again.
Chi Epsilon would like to thank Michael Baker International and Professor Thomas Carl for their generous donations. Pictured below are Professor Carl and seniors involved with Chi Epsilon.
From left: Brian Rennie, Luke Aboff, Kush Patel, Victor Mazariegoes, Colin O’Hara, Olivia Cleale and Professor Tom Carl.
This past week pledges of Chi Epsilon participated in pledge week. We would like to congratulate all of the pledges that were accepted into our organization! A photo of the Fall 2019 pledge call is included below. Again, congratulations to everyone!
Front Row (from left): Mark Esposito, Bob Dinger, Alex Iorio, Andrew Agresto
Back Row (from left): John Costello, John Thompson, Austin Farnum, Hunter Kelly
Not pictured: Sofia Zapata, Amanda Stephenson
On October 30th, Chi Epsilon and ASCE held a joint event for Halloween. In this event, both groups filled Halloween pumpkin pails with different types of candies and goodies. The pumpkin pails were then given to Highland Park Elementary School in Upper Darby, PA. Chi Epsilon is proud to be able to help the community while taking part in this exciting community service event.
The pictures above include first graders from Highland Park Elementary School receiving their pumpkin pails.
On Friday, October 25th, Chi Epsilon had a social event at the Corn Maze on Howell Living Farms in Hopewell. Participating members were seniors Luke Aboff, Charles Turi, Kush Patel and Dr. Krstic. All participating members successfully made it through the corn maze and had a great bonding experience.
From the left: Luke Aboff, Kush Patel, Dr. Krstic and Charles Turi.
On Wednesday, October 23rd, Chi Epsilon held a technical seminar. The technical seminar was preformed by Joseph Strafaci, PE, MS, MBA of HNTB and Jay Jeyamohan of NJDOT. The seminar was about the Pulaski Skyway Rehabilitation project. More information on the seminar can be found on the flyer attached below. Chi Epsilon would like to thank Mr. Strafaci and Mr. Jeyamohan for coming in to talk about their project.
Flyer: Technical Seminar
Our Faculty members had an outstanding year. Here are the highlights:
Dr. Michael Horst has became the 2019/20 ASCE NJ Section President. Congratulations!
On Tuesday, October 22nd, ASCE Central Jersey Branch held its annual award dinner. Chi Epsilon would like congratulate TCNJ XE Faculty Member Dr. Thomas Brennan on winning the award for researcher of the year. We appreciate all that Dr. Brennan does for the civil engineering department at TCNJ and Chi Epsilon.
On October 4th, Dr. Andrew Bechtel (center) and Dr. Thomas Brennan (right) traveled to London and received an award for the best research paper in ICE Journal of Transportation Asset Management for 2018. The paper outlined a project on how data taken from GPS signals in cell phones can be used to determine if bridges are functioning properly. Bridges that were causing congestion at their location across the State of New Jersey were first located. This was the same data used to make the roads on Google Maps turn yellow, orange, and red. This was then correlated to a database of bridge condition. When combining the data, bridges that were decaying and causing congestion were flagged. These bridges are easy candidates for replacement. The paper is about using available data to make better decisions about what infrastructure to repair and replace.
Congratulations!
