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Candidacy Requirements

The candidacy requirements can also be downloaded as a Microsoft Word file here.

A. Fellowship & Social Events

The following fellowship events are required of all candidates:

Information Session Barbeque: Saturday April 26th, 2008 11:30am-1pm @ Mirrielees BBQ Pit
Ice Cream Social: All candidates must attend at least one of the two offered dates.

The following fellowship events are optional, but highly encouraged:

Commit to at least one long term TBP service function for the rest of the candidacy period. Below are the options that fulfill this requirement:

Tutoring: [10-15 people] TBP tutors every quarter in each of the Engineering Fundamentals. Tutoring is on a by appointment basis. Tutors specify the times they are available for tutoring, and students contact the tutors to schedule a meeting through the TBP website. Tutors are required to sign up for at least 2 hours a week of available tutoring time.

E-Advising: [4-5 people] The wiki is a new project this year, which serves a similar function to Courseguide. We need help advertising and populating the pages. The E-Advising program allows underclassmen to email TBP members to get advice about majors, classes, or anything else engineering related. Help field and answer students’ questions

E-Forums: [3-4 people] Lead a new effort to create a comprehensive online forum for the entire Stanford engineering community, encompassing all engineering organizations on campus, all engineering students, and all engineering-related topics. Forum topics include course selection, research opportunities, career development, and graduation school admissions. Tau Beta Pi’s unique mix of extremely high-caliber students from all engineering majors and organizations means it is best positioned to lead this project, which will literally create an engineering community. (candidates with CS background perferred)

Egg Drop: [4-5 people] Help organize our annual Egg Drop, to be held Saturday, May 19th. Teams of students from across campus will compete to see who can best design an apparatus to protect an egg dropped from the 5th floor of Terman. Organizing Egg Drop will involve setting rules and guidelines, advertising, and executing the event.

Krispy Kreme: [2 people] Help purchase Kripsy Kremes to hand out at the CME 104 Midterm.

Contact: Gary Chang, gwchang@stanford.edu

School of Engineering Advising Re-Evaluation: [2-3 people]: The School of Engineering has asked Tau Beta Pi to assist in evaluating how advising is conducted within each department. A preliminary survey has been built. TBP needs help in 1) seeking additional opinions from faculty members on the survey, 2) constructing an e-survey, and 3) rolling out the survey (both in-person and online).

School of Engineering Exploratory Committee: Find out how the School of Engineering can improve, brainstorm and conduct surveys. Submit final report to Dean Osgood.

School of Engineering Next Generation Tours [4-5 people]: The School of Engineeirng Alumni Relations Program is kicking off the first ever Stanford Engineering tours, designed especially for the high school aged children of Stanford Engineering alumni and their parents. The Alumni Relations office has asked 4-5 tour leaders from Tau Beta Pi. The tour leader will take a group of 4 kids with parents through a rotation of 5 different research labs. The leader will have a map and a schedule. The graduate students in the labs will describe their research. There is no script, no hype, no rehearsal, no training, and no prior tour-guide experience necessary. The event is on June 27, 1:00 to 3:30 PM--the end of the first week of summer classes.

Project Reports: [2 people] Learn more about TBP and its past service by helping fill out project reports. Gather information from officers/members about TBP events throughout the year and compile a project book to be sent to national.

Contact: Charlotte Stewart-Sloan, crstewar@stanford.edu

Submit your resume for the TBP resume book (.doc, .pdf, .txt) to TBA
Sign up for a graduation stole if you are graduating this June and choose to commit to the initation process. If you are succesfully initiated, you may choose to wear a Tau Beta Pi stole at graduation.
Interview with a Tau Beta Pi Officer/Member: Monday May 26th-28th, 2008
Interviews are the last step in the candidacy process before intiation. Interviewing with a member of TBP is a chance for us to get to know you better and for you to ask us questions about TBP. At the interview, you will be asked what you have learned about and contributed to TBP over your candidacy period. Upon successful completion of the interview (and other requirements), a candidate can be officially elected to be initiated.

At the interview, the following must be completed:
a. Pay Lifetime Membership Fee of $65
b. Fill out Candidate card and questionnaire
IMPORTANT: Attend Initiation Ceremony and Banquet on Saturday, May 31st, 2008
To officially become a member of Tau Beta Pi, you must attend the initiation ceremony. If you have a conflict with this date, let us know ASAP so we can try to reschedule it. If you absolutely cannot make initiation, you can complete your candidacy requirements now and initiate in the fall ceremony next year, or under extreme circumstances, we might be able to arrange for you to initiate at another chapter.

Should you have questions about Tau Beta Pi at Stanford University or the candidacy process, you can contact the officers.