Tau Alpha Pi Student Paper Competition

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Have you recently been involved in an undergraduate research experience, a significant course design project, or a capstone design project? … Share it with your peers and Tau Alpha Pi!

Tau Alpha Pi is pleased to announce their new national level competition. As leaders in your educational program and members of Tau Alpha Pi, you have already demonstrated your capabilities and initiative. Now is your opportunity to compete with your Tau Alpha Pi peers for an opportunity to travel to the 2009 National ASEE Conference in Austin, TX and present your work.

To compete, simply write a research paper describing a recent undergraduate research project, a significant course project, or a capstone design project for which you have made a significant contribution. Submit your paper through your Chapter’s Faculty Advisor no later than March 13th, 2009. If you are selected as one of the top four papers, you will be invited to the 2009 National ASEE Conference to present your work and have an additional opportunity to be named the top Tau Alpha Pi student paper of 2009.

Alternatively, you may write a research paper or an innovative proposal for improving the undergraduate experience that addresses the impact of globalization on your education, experiences, and/or future professional life. If you choose this option, ASEE will also consider you for a student travel stipend to attend the 8^th ASEE Global Colloquium in Budapest, Hungary (a maximum of one stipend will be given). Suggestions on how a paper might address globalization include topics such as:

· How globalization has or should impact the education process.

· How globalization has affected the student’s personal or professional life.

· A discussion of one or more global experiences of the student and its impact of the student’s future plans.

· How the student believes that globalization will impact his or her future professional careers.

· How globalization will impact the design of products or services.

Contest Rules

○ All current student members of Tau Alpha Pi who are graduating no earlier than May 2009 are eligible to compete.

○ Papers must be submitted by an individual student and can be no longer than eight pages total in length. The entrant should be listed as the author and must have been responsible for writing the paper.

○ All submissions must follow the submission format and content guidelines.

○ All submissions must include the name of a faculty representative from their institution that will be attending the 2009 National ASEE Conference in Austin, TX. If no faculty representative is available, the Chapter Faculty Advisor should contact Dr. Jay Porter (porter@entc.tamu.edu) to discuss.

○ Each paper must be submitted electronically by the appropriate Student Chapter Faculty Advisor to Warren Sallade (W.Sallade@asee.org) in the form of a .pdf file by the close of business on March 13th, 2009.

○ The Tau Alpha Pi Board of Directors will select four finalist papers and will be announce by March 27^th, 2009. The finalists will receive a $1000 stipend to cover their travel and lodging to the 2009 National ASEE Conference in Austin, TX (June 14-17, 2009) to present their paper and compete for 1^st place (plaque and $500 cash award) and 1^st runner-up (plaque and $250 cash award).