Invited member of Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
"The Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society is the oldest engineering honor society in the United States. It was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 by Edward Higginson Williams Jr., to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as students in engineering. Tau Beta Pi association includes 17 Draper prize winners, 12 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 22 Nobel laureates, 53 recipients of the National Medal of Technology, 67 honorees in the National Inventors Hall of Fame, 72 astronauts, 81 recipients of the National Medal of Science, hundreds of members of the National Academy of Engineering, hundreds of corporate CEOs and academic leaders, 14 state governors, more than 20 Olympic and professional athletes."