Virginia Tech Alpha Epsilon

Alpha Epsilon is an honor society representing outstanding biological and agricultural engineers.


The mission of the Alpha Epsilon Honor Society is to promote the high ideals of the engineering profession, to give recognition to those biological and agricultural engineers who manifest worthy qualities of character, scholarship and professional attainment, and to encourage and support such improvements in the biological and agricultural engineering profession that make it an instrument of greater service to mankind.



2011-2012 Officers

President: Katie Brill - brillk@vt.edu
Vice President: Hadi Nazem Bokaee - hnbokaee@vt.edu
Secretary: Emily Lassiter - emilyml@vt.edu
Treasurer: Joe Rollin - rollinja@vt.edu
Officer-at-Large: Nate Jones - cnjones@vt.edu

Advisor: Dr. Leigh-Anne Krometis - krometis@vt.edu


2010-2011 Officers

We would like to welcome our new faculty advisor this year, Dr. Leigh-Anne Krometis! Best wishes for new beginnings!

President: Joe Rollin - rollinja@vt.edu
Vice President: Keira Ebanks - kebanks@vt.edu
Secretary: Katie Brill - brillk@vt.edu
Treasurer: Michael McAnulty - mcmike6@vt.edu
Officer-at-Large: Mikala Michalski - mikalalm@vt.edu

Advisor: Dr. Leigh-Anne Krometis - krometis@vt.edu


2009-2010 Officers

Advisor: Dr. Durelle Scott - dscott@vt.edu

President: Christan Whysong - cwhysong@bt.edu
Vice President: Mike Nassry - nassry@vt.edu
Secretary: Joe Rollin - rollinja@vt.edu
Treasurer: Jonathan Resop - resop@vt.edu


2009-2010 Announcements

Congratulations to the Virginia Eta Chapter of Alpha Epsilon for receiving the 2009 Most Outstanding Chapter Award. This award would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of our chapter's members who continue to participate in many different activities, including local and international.

Chapters are selected based upon their membership makeup, number of meetings held throughout the year, educational activities, service activities, professional activities, activities and goals planned for the next school year, and the mission of the individual chapter. The award comes with a $400 prize which will be used to fund activities in the upcoming year. Specifically the chapter plans to use this money to help complete our pilot sustainability kit which will be a tool K through 5 classrooms can use to learn about sustainability.

Award winners were announced at the ASABE Annual International Meeting held in June in Reno, Nevada.



Calendar of Events


Julia Pryde Memorial Garden Maintenance: Tuesday April 13th from 12:30-1:30pm. Please contact Chris (cwhysong@vt.edu) if you can help!

Canoe Clean-Up: Saturday April 17th from 10:00-2:00pm. Please contact Shawn Rosenquist (serosenq@vt.edu) if interested.

International Potluck: Saturday, April 24th from 5:00-7:00pm at the Torgerson Musuem.

Ongoing Projects

More Activities and Pictures
Project:

Sustainability kit

Description:

Alpha Epsilon is leading an outreach initiative to work with nearby K-5 schools in promoting science and environmental education. The kit seeks to teach students about the concepts of sustainability. To help make this concept more understandable to young students, we have encompassed the key points within the framework of the life cycle of an apple. By following the path of an apple from the farm, to the store, and to consumption, students will learn about sustainable agriculture, energy, transportation, recycling, and composting.


Project:

Julia K. Pryde Memorial Garden


Description:

After the April 16th tragedy, Alpha Epsilon members created a memorial garden in honor of Julia Pryde (BS 2006, MS 2007). AE raised funds, organized planting, and implemented a maintenance and watering plan for the garden.