Electee Exam - Fall 2014Tau Beta Pi MI-G

INSTRUCTIONS:This exam will cover the history and organization of Tau Beta Pi at a national level as well as the historyand organization of our chapter, Michigan Gamma. This exam is not meant to be difficult, and you shouldnot stress about it. Please complete this exam and bring it to Fifth General on December 2.

THE EXAM HONOR CODEI have given or received aid on this examination. I have exposed no honor code violations. (There are none!)

Name: Uniqname:(Please print)

1. Name all of the officers of Michigan Gamma, their uniqnames, positions, and majors.

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2. Name all of the faculty, alumnus, and student advisors of Michigan Gamma, their departments, andtheir titles.

3. When and where was Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society founded?

4. Who was the founder of Tau Beta Pi?

5. Where is the national headquarters of TBP located?

6. With what other organization did TBP merge in 1974, and why?

7. What is the original Tau Beta Pi yell?

8. What is the revised yell?

9. What is the Michigan Gamma yell?

10. Which founding (charter) member of Michigan Gamma has a North Campus building named afterhim?

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11. Where are the 3 brass bents (permanently mounted) located throughout campus?EXTRA CREDIT: Where is the fourth?

12. List the national requirements to be considered for TBP membership as an undergraduate.

13. List the ideals of Tau Beta Pi Honor Society as stated in the preamble of our constitution.

14. What is the symbol of the TBP motto?

15. What are TBP’s colors?

16. What is the TBP emblem?

17. Identify a Tau Beta Pi laureate from Michigan Gamma.

18. Name 3 other schools in the same district as Michigan Gamma.

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19. Get at least 5 signatures from Tau Beta Pi actives from Michigan Gamma who are not officers. (Thereare over 7500 of them - remember, once a member, always a member).

20. Get at least two signatures of current Tau Beta Pi officers. Going to office hours is a great way to findthese!

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OFFICER/ADVISOR QUESTIONSBelow are some interesting facts about the officers and advisors of Michigan Gamma posed as questions.

21. Which officer/advisor spent the summer in Houston?

22. Which officer/advisor is a big fan of Disney Channel?

23. Which officer/advisor has a crafting obsession?

24. Which officer/advisor has been in the Arctic Circle?

25. Which officer/advisor abandoned a car on the highway with his/her friends and then went to go pickit up later that night?

26. Which officer/advisor was threatened by a wild boar on a camping trip?

27. Which officer/advisor is afraid of cockroaches, beetles, and bees?

28. Which officer/advisor has been on a camel ride before?

29. Which officer/advisor is from Slippery Rock?

30. Which officer/advisor can bench 250 lbs and ballroom dance?

31. Which officer/advisor has crooked pinky fingers and can wiggle his/her ears?

32. Which officer/advisor has broken the clutch wire on a motorcycle twice?

33. Which officer/advisor nearly fell off of the Great Wall of China this past summer?

34. Which officer/advisor has a black belt in taekwondo?

35. Which officer/advisor went backpacking in the Grand Canyon this year?

36. Which officer/advisor attended the original Breakfast Crawl?

37. Which officer/advisor tripped and fell in front of a packed Bursley-Baits bus?

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38. Which officer/advisor had black eyes in the christmas family photo three years in a row?

39. Which officer/advisor almost stepped on a rattlesnake when he/she was seven but was saved byhis/her dad?

40. Which officer/advisor is a humongous fan of spoken word poetry?

41. Which officer/advisor is banned from the 4th floor of the Union?

42. Which officer/advisor went cliff jumping in Hong Kong this summer?

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OFFICER DRAWINGSWrite the name of the officer next to their their picture. There are two bonus drawings.

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MIKE OR KYLEEach of the following is either about Mike Hand or Kyle Lady, two graduate advisors for our chapter. Goodluck!

43. Who has a tumblr for breaking things? Bonus: Send him a picture of something new broken.

44. Who got pulled over for impeding traffic while driving to initiation?

45. Whose research project launched a metal cap through a metal ceiling and into the concrete superceiling?

46. Who made the new website? Bonus: How long has the new website been under development?

47. Who has the bigger shoe size Bonus: What size is it?

48. Who accidentally ran a half marathon but had to limp the last four miles?

49. Who was on America’s Funniest Home Videos? Bonus: Was he actually funny?

50. Who has won HKN’s most attractive active award? Bonus: How many times? Should he have won?

51. Who broke a chair at HKN banquet?

52. Who has spoken with Steve Jobs?

53. Who keyed an active (a DA, even!) in the face? Bonus: Why?

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BULLPEN QUESTIONS

54. Where is the Michigan Gamma office and have you been there?**If you answered ”no,” go there right now**

55. What is SWE’s motto?

56. Who was the TBP President when you were born?

57. Which US president congratulated MI-Gamma on the 100th anniversary of our founding?

58. Our office cabinet has pictures of the bents from what colleges?

59. Whose office is right next to the UMEC office?

60. Which TBP members have competed in Mr. Engineer (both for TBP and for other organizations)?

61. Who has red hair?

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BONUS

62. To the optimist, the glass is half full.To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.To the engineer, the glass is .

63. What do you get if you cross a grape with an elephant?

64. How many times can you fold an 8.5” by 11” piece of paper in half?

65. What do you call a Local Area Network in Australia?

66. Fill in the blank: ”I take 10 steps with a left vision / Study the disorders we’veabsorbed inside the village”

67. Fill in the blank: ”Obviously dead , and spent every red cent / To rule you, and stilldrop more jewels than schools do / Or even TV news that’s designed to fool you”

68. Fill in the blank: ”When I consider how my light is spent / E’re half my days, in this dark world andwide, / And that one Talent which is death to hide / Lodg’d with me useless, though my Soul more

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