Chi Epsilon

Back row (from left): Ryan, Anthony, Jeremy, Nick, Tommy

Front row (from left): Ashley, Nicole, Taylor, Erin, Jennifer

Taylor Anne Barrett, Magna Cum Laude

Nicole T. Byrne, Cum Laude

Jeremy Bernard Chopp

Thomas Quattrini Cunningham

Ryan Gurriell

• Best Overall Senior Project Award (Redesign of CSX Bridge #1013-158 and Realignment of Rt. 31 in Pennington, NJ)

Ashley Hyde, Magna Cum Laude

• Best Overall Senior Project Award (Redesign of CSX Bridge #1013-158 and Realignment of Rt. 31 in Pennington, NJ)

Erin Nicole Lafferty, Magna Cum Laude

• Vincent W. Dresser Service Award (outstanding service to the Department, the School, and the College)

Anthony Orlando LaRegina, Magna Cum Laude

• Fred O. Armstrong Scholar Award (highest academic achievement)
• Best Overall Senior Project Award (Redesign of CSX Bridge #1013-158 and Realignment of Rt. 31 in Pennington, NJ)

Nicholas M. Pellegrino

Jennifer Marianne Puschak, Magna Cum Laude

Congratulations to the following XE members for receiving scholarships and awards:

ASHE Scholarship

Brian Rennie (’20)

Ashley Hyde (’19)

Ryan Gurriel (’19)

ITSNJ – Fall  Scholarship (Outstanding Undergraduate Student)

Ashley Hyde (’19)

ITSNJ – Spring  Scholarship (Outstanding Undergraduate Student)

Ryan Gurriel (’19)

ITE Pignataro Award

Ashley Hyde (’19)

TCNJ XE chapter has inducted four new outstanding members on April 28, 2019:

Honor Member: James Purcell, PE

Alumni Member: Lauren Santullo (’17)

Undergraduate Members: Kush Patel (’20) and Stephen Villaverde (’20)

From left: Kush Patel, Stephen Villaverde, James Purcell, Lauren Santullo

Congratulations to newly inducted members of TCNJ XE!

We would like to thank Professor Purcell and XE Trustee Kim Dana for their inspirational speeches and thank you to Dean Schreiner for attending our ceremony.

The following XE members were recognized for their outstanding achievements in the 2018-19 academic year:

Outstanding Academic Achievement Award: Charles Turi (’20)

Outstanding Pledge Award: Brian Rennie (’20)

Service Award: Anthony LaRegina (’19)

Best Educator Award: Dr. Vedrana Krstic

From left: Brian Rennie, Charles Turi, Dr. Krstic, Anthony LaRegina

Congratulations to all award recipients!

At the end of the evening, senior XE members received their honor cords in recognition of their contribution to the chapter.

From left: Taylor Barret, Jeremy Chopp, Tommy Cunningham, Ryan Gurriell, Ashley Hyde, Erin Lafferty, Anthony LaRegina, Jennifer Puschak

Congratulations to all graduating seniors!

Download induction ceremony Program here.

Find information about our honor members here.

TCNJ XE seniors Erin Lafferty (team leader). Tommy Cunningham and Jennifer Puschak under advisement of TCNJ XE honor member Dr. Nabil Al-Omaishi won first place in the Metropolitan Region steel bridge competition! After two years of placing second TCNJ team finally took home a win and is advancing to the national competition at Southern Illinois University on June 1, 2019. CONGRATULATIONS!

In Steel We Truss

Back: Dr. Al-Omaishi, Dan Callery, JP Ricci, Tommy Cunningham

Front: Erin Lafferty, Jennifer Puschak

Update: TCNJ placed as second lightest bridge during the national competition! Congratulations again!

On Thursday, April 25th TCNJ Chi Epsilon co-sponsored the Engineering Trivia Bowl with the TCNJ’s National Society of Black Engineers. Senior members Ashley and Anthony, along with juniors Colin and Victor, took home second place at this fun event that put their schooling to the test! Chi Epsilon would like to thank NSBE for organizing this event and for their generous engineering paper prizes!

From left: Ashley Hyde, Anthony LaRegina, Colin O’Hara and Victor Mazariegos (standing)

On Monday, April 15th TCNJ Chi Epsilon participated in the 6th annual PB&J race hosted by TCNJ Student United Way. Representatives from Chi Epsilon competed to create the most PB&J sandwiches out of all the groups that participated. In all, Chi Epsilon finished in 4th place. All the sandwiches were later donated to the Trenton food bank. Chi Epsilon would like to thank Student United Way for giving us the opportunity to give back to the community.   

On Wednesday, April 10th, civil engineering students at TCNJ celebrated “Proud to be a Civil Engineer day”. In order to commemorate the day  students and faculty wore various School of Engineering shirts. Thank you for all that showed their pride and those that bought our polos!

On Wednesday, April 10th, TCNJ CEHS conducted a tutoring session for sophomores enrolled in Strength of Materials. Juniors Brian Rennie, Chuck Turi, Victor Mazariegos, Colin O’Hara and Luke Aboff answered questions and gave tips to the sophomores that attended this session. Thank you to all that participated in this event. Being leaders on campus, members of CEHS enjoy helping and teaching others.

Junior Brian Rennie teaching shear and moment diagrams.

Junior Victor Mazariegos teaching in front of the class.

TCNJ CEHS has recently sent two representatives to help with the School of Engineering open houses. Juniors Kush Patel and Steve Villaverde were sent on Lion’s Day to assist Dr. Nabil Al-Omaishi in his presentation to perspective students looking to major in civil engineering at TCNJ. Thank you to Steve and Kush for their service to the Civil Engineering Department.

Congratulations to the pledge class of Spring 2019. Both pledges Kush Patel and Steve Villaverde were accepted into our club. A photo of the Spring 2019 pledge class in included below. Again, congratulations to Steve and Kush.

From left: Steve Villaverde, Kush Patel