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The DC Alpha Chapter was chartered at Howard University March 10, 1956. Since then, our chapter has been responsible for 20 National Tau Beta Pi Fellowship winners, 25 Tau Beta Pi Scholarship winners, 400 nominated Eminent Engineers, and 3 members of Tau Beta Pi's National Academy of Engineering! Below are some of notable Tau Bates that studied at Howard University:
Current Virginia State University President, Dr. Makola M. Abdullah (left), is a Chicago native and Howard alum. He earned his undergraduate degree in civil engineering from Howard University and his doctorate and master’s degrees in civil engineering from Northwestern University. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated. He is the youngest African American to receive a Ph.D. in engineering, and received Tau Beta Pi's 2022 Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Dr. Aprille Joy Ericsson (right) was awarded Tau Beta Pi's Distinguished Alumni Award In 2018. She Is the first African American female to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University, the first American to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, the Aerospace option from Howard University, and the first African American female to receive a Ph.D. in Engineering at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. She has also been recently nominated by President Joseph Biden to be Assistant Secretary of Defense (Science and Technology), Department of Defense.
Simone Stanley (left) graduated Howard University with a degree in chemical engineering. She was awarded the 2017 TBP Laureate Honor, the highest honor a student Tau Bate can receive. As a former employee at the National Institute of Health, she worked in the Neurological Disorders and Stroke in the Circuit Dynamics and Connectivity Unit studying the gene expression of cells that undergo neurogenesis. Simone now serves as an Outreach and Workforce Development Program Manager at Georgetown University Medical Center within the National Institutes of Health’s Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity (AIM-AHEAD) program.
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