Ohio State Eta Kappa Nu receives Outstanding Chapter Award
The Gamma Chapter provides a free tutoring service for engineering students, manages the Fred H. Pumphrey/Eta Kappa Nu Distinguished Teaching Award program, hosts socials for ECE students, faculty and staff; and participates in ECE department and university events.
The chapter provides free tutoring for all introductory electrical and computer engineering classes. Members provided a total of 407.5 volunteer hours of tutoring and assisted 896 engineering students in 2009-2010. This past year, the Gamma Chapter also offered a weekly study session for a circuits class.
The chapter officers for 2009-2010 were: Heath McAfee, president; Jeremy Vila, vice-president; Nicholas Host, treasurer; Irfaan Dar, recording secretary; Sam Cooler, corresponding secretary; Shawn Hall, HKN web correspondent, Jason Syu, Travis Case, John Saige, Bryan Skursha, Andrew Davis, Dan Twaddell and Tejas Kataria. Prof. Robert Garbacz and Prof. Hooshang Hemami served as faculty co-advisors and Prof. Ronald Reano is the faculty treasurer.
The Outstanding Chapter Award will be presented at an upcoming HKN awards banquet.
The Eta Kappa Nu Gamma Chapter recognizes outstanding juniors and seniors in electrical and computer engineering and promotes better communications and relationships between faculty and students, as well as among students. Membership is by invitation only.
About Eta Kappa Nu
Eta Kappa Nu is a 106-year-old honor society for electrical and computer engineering students and professionals. With more than 250,000 members and approximately 175 university chapters, HKN recognizes excellence in academic accomplishments, leadership, outstanding character, and service. The International Engineering Consortium manages the headquarters function of Eta Kappa Nu. For more information, please visit www.hkn.org.
