Electrical and Computer Engineering Student Awarded a Tau Beta Pi Graduate Fellowship
June 21, 2005
Karan Singh, an electrical and computer engineering dual degree major, with minors in computer science and math, was awarded a Tau Beta Pi graduate fellowship. Karan was one of 35 students selected among 181 applicants chosen to receive the prestigious Tau Beta Pi-James Fife Fellowship, presented in memory of the father of the late member William Fife, CA A’21.
The Tau Beta Pi Fellowship Board recently announced this year’s selection of fellowship recipients for the 2005-2006 school year. A highly competitive process, applicants must meet criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service and a promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. Fellows are allowed to complete their graduate work at the institution of their choice. Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 and has 229 collegiate chapters at engineering colleges throughout the United States.
Karan, who will graduate in May of 2005, joined Tau Beta Pi in 2003 and became the local chapter’s president in 2004. He currently serves as the 2004-2005 president of Eta Kappa Nu, president of Tau Beta Pi and secretary of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. He has also served as publicity chair of the Engineering Council, a tech support for the LSU Forensics Speech & Debate Tournaments, and a student member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Receiving this fellowship is the culmination of years of hard work and dedication; however, he said that he has many people to thank for his success thus far. “I would like to thank my parents and my professors at LSU for their support. I would like to thank, specifically, Dr. David Koppleman of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for his guidance, support and encouragement,” he said.
Karan will be attending graduate school in the Fall of 2005 at Cornell University where he will pursue an MS-PhD in computer engineering with a concentration in computer architecture.
