Chi Epsilon

Our Spring Induction Ceremony was a success as we inducted two new members, Jack Eelman, 2018 and Nicholas Pellegrino, 2019. We also inducted our first Honor Member, Dr. Al-Omaishi and conducted the Spring 2018 Awards Ceremony. We would like to thank all who attended, including Chapter Trustee Lee Collins and Assistant Dean for Student Services Dr. Stella. We would also like to congratulate our two new members, our first Honor Member, and our award recipients for all of their accomplishments!

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Link here to view the Award Recipients Page

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Based on his outstanding record of service to TCNJ’s Civil Engineering Department and the engineering community at large, his exciting and unique research accomplishments, and his everlasting dedication to his students, members of the Civil Engineering Honor Society unanimously supported induction of Dr. Nabil Al-Omaishi as the first Honor Member of CEHS.

From left: Anthony LaRegina, Dr. Nabil Al-Omaishi, Erin Lafferty

 Click here to view the Honor Member Page

After inducting our two new members and our first honor member into CEHS, we held our first awards ceremony. The awards that were given included Outstanding Academic Achievement, Best Educator, Outstanding Pledge, and the Service Award. Please refer to the following link for the names of the award recipients as well as photos from the ceremony.

https://cehs.pages.tcnj.edu/news/award-recipients/

We congratulate all of those who received an award!

Some of our members participated in the Colonial Lake Watershed Clean-Up in Lawrenceville, NJ — even our advisor and an associate sophomore member came out to help! We were excited to help TCNJ’s surrounding community by picking up garbage and recyclables around the lake. We enjoyed making the lake and the surrounding areas a cleaner and better place for not only visitors, but for the wildlife as well. We look forward to volunteering again for the Colonial Lake Clean-Up next spring!

Back row (from left): Brian Rennie, Anthony LaRegina, Ashley Hyde, Jeremy Chopp, Tommy Cunningham

Front row (from left): Erin Lafferty. Taylor Barrett, Jennifer Puschak, Dr. Krstic

Today, TCNJ Civil Engineering students who purchased a TCNJ Civil Engineering T-Shirt wore them to show their pride in being a (future) civil engineer. We thank everyone who purchased a shirt from us during this fundraiser and hope that they enjoy their shirts as much as we do!

Many of our members participated in TCNJ’s Accepted Students Day today, helping prospective students around campus and informing them about what TCNJ has to offer. Some of our members worked as Ambassadors and Team Engineers, and others manned the CEHS table at the Engineering Student Organization Fair. We thank all of our members who offered up their time to help prospective students and their families.

We are happy to announce that our petition to become a chapter of Chi Epsilon, the Civil Engineering National Honor Society, has been submitted! If all goes well, we are expected to be installed as a chapter by mid-November 2018.

Our President, Anthony LaRegina, and our Webmaster and Fundraising Chair, Ashley Hyde, attended the 2018 Chi Epsilon Conclave in Arlington, Texas during the weekend of March 17, 2018. Both members participated in committees and meetings during the Conclave, learning about Chi Epsilon’s Constitution and Chi Epsilon as a society. We look forward to hearing all the information they have learned in order to improve our honor society as a whole. Below is a photo of Ashley and Anthony in front of the Chi Epsilon Monument at the University of Texas Arlington.

As TCNJ’s Civil Engineering Honor Society, we have been chosen to be TCNJ’s Student Organization of the Week. We are honored to be featured and promoted on TCNJ’s Student Affairs social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Since we are a fairly new organization, the exposure given to our organization by being the Student Organization of the Week is extremely valuable.

Check out the link below to view the Instagram post!

https://www.instagram.com/p/BggfAarlska/?taken-by=tcnj_students

The freshmen students currently enrolled in ENG142 have been paired up with our members to participate in our mentoring program. The pairs meet once a month to discuss current topics and to ask/answer any questions that may arise. It looks like the meetings have been going well!