History

History of Pi Tau Sigma

With the twentieth century came the realization that honor societies made a
definite contribution to the department and that membership required active
participation. Pi Tau Sigma came into being on March 16, 1915, at the University
of Illinois. A similar organization embarked November 15, 1915, at Wisconsin,
and other local organizations (such as the Carzeuran of Purdue) were soon to
become active.

The early leaders: Professors C. R. Richards, A. C. Willard, and O. A. Leutwiler
of the University of Illinois; G. L. Larson of the University of Wisconsin; G. A.
Young of Purdue University; and J. V. Martenis of the University of Minnesota,
stand out for their early contributions.

In ten years Pi Tau Sigma grew to six chapters in the Midwest (Illinois Alpha,
Wisconsin Alpha, Purdue Beta, Minnesota Gamma, Illinois Delta, and Missouri
Epsilon). In 1925 the expansion continued to the east with the Penn State Zeta
Chapter being installed. Six years later the Texas Kappa Chapter, and the following
year the Colorado Mu Chapter established chapters in the south and west.
Also in 1932, the expansion continued southeast to Georgia Tech Nu Chapter. It
was not until nine years later that the first chapter was installed on the Pacific
coast (Oregon State Omega). In twenty-six years, Pi Tau Sigma became truly a
national honorary mechanical engineering fraternity with a total of twenty-five
chapters. During the succeeding four years nine additional chapters were installed.

From 1947 to 1958 forty new chapters were installed. The Chapter-At-Large was
established in 1954. The installations completed through the spring of 2017 bring
the total established chapters to one hundred and seventy-eight.

CONDENSER

The Condenser was conceived at the eighth annual Pi Tau Sigma convention held at Illinois Alpha Chapter in Urbana, Illinois, in 1925 when National Secretary-Treasurer John V. Martenis was instructed to issue an annual publication for the fraternity. The issue was dedicated to serve as a common medium of exchange of ideas between chapters. In compliance with instructions, Volume 1, No. I of The Condenser was published in Minneapolis as of June 1926. It consisted of eight, 8 in. x 11 in. pages with white cover and included editorial notes and comments, the welcoming speech of President A. C. Willard to the preceding convention, and news from the Chapters.

Editor Martenis continued the publication each year through Volume VI. During this early period the Condenser grew from eight to sixteen pages as the number of chapters increased and contributions to copy increased. It served its purpose to the growing fraternity.

Because of the established policy of having National Secretary act as editor of The Condenser, National Secretary-Treasurer H. E. Degler took over with Volume VII. At this time the date of issue was established for March of each year. Volume VII, issued from Austin, Texas, was expanded in size to 9 in. x 12 in. and to 14 pages to accommodate increased growth. Pictures of college buildings, detailed convention minutes, and a cover plate of a halftone Condenser appeared for the first time. Again, fulfilling the requests of the convention, Volume VII contained a complete membership roll of the fraternity.

To assist in the work of the National Secretary-Treasurer, the National Vice President twice edited the Condenser. Volume X was edited by E. S. Gray from Columbia, Missouri, in 1936 and V. L. Maleev edited Volume XII in 1938 from Stillwater, Oklahoma. With these exceptions, H. E. Degler continued the editorship through Volume XIV, the Silver Anniversary Issue.

Notable among the issues of The Condenser was the Silver Anniversary Issue, commemorating the twenty- fifth anniversary of the founding of Pi Tau Sigma. It consisted of 52 pages with a cover of aluminum foil. The feature article was the history of 25 years in Pi Tau Sigma.

A revision of the Constitution was made at this time increasing the number of National officers by including two Vice Presidents. The duty of the First Vice President was to edit The Condenser. The first issue under this plan, Volume XV of 1941, was edited by T. G. Estep, Carnegie Iota, from Pittsburgh, Pa.

Volume XVI (1942) through Volume XX (1947) were edited by F. V. Larkin, Bethlehem, Pa., with assistance from the active members of Lehigh Theta Chapter.

Volumes XXI and XXII were edited by C. H. Kent, New York, NY, with assistance from the active members of C.C.N.Y. Pi Beta Chapter.

Volumes XXIII through XVI were edited by M. S. Gjesdahl, State College, Pa., with the assistance of active members of the Penn State Zeta Chapter and the Purdue Beta Chapter.

Volumes XXVII through XXXII were edited by M. J. Goglia, Atlanta, GA., with the assistance of active members of the Georgia Tech Nu and the Purdue Beta Chapters.

Volume XXXIII was edited by D. S. Clark, Lafayette, Indiana, G. B. Thom, Newark, NJ. J. W. Bayne, Urbana, Illinois edited the issued through 1971. H. C. Hewitt, Cookeville, Tennessee, edited issues from 1972 through 1983. E. I. Griggs, Cookeville, Tennessee, has edited issues since 1983.

The Condenser grew from an eight page pamphlet dedicated to an exchange of ideas to a magazine of sixty-eight pages (Vol. XXII) incorporating editorials and articles as well as the minutes and pictures of the preceding national convention, the biographies and picture of the recipients of the Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal and Pi Tau Sigma Richards' Memorial Awards, the pictures and records of all honorary members, a story and picture of the Host University or College for the succeeding convention, and a resume of the activities of all chapters including the pictures of the mechanical engineering building.

With the increased cost of publications, all of which are paid by the national chapter out of the dues received from members, it became necessary to retrench so that effective with Volume XXIII the articles were omitted and effective with Volume XXV the pictures of the buildings were not repeated, as they appear in The Story of Pi Tau Sigma.

At the Thirty-first Annual Convention in 1951 recommendations were made to the editors of The Condenser and The Story of Pi Tau Sigma to avoid duplication.

A special 50th anniversary issue of The Condenser was published in 1965. The issue, edited by J. W. Bayne included several items of historical interest plus greetings from five past National Presidents.

National Presidents
A. C. Willard	1920-1922
G. A. Young	1923-1925
G. L. Larson	1926-1928
O. A. Leutwiler	1929-1931
J. V. Martenis	1932-1940
H. E. Degler	1941-1947
B. H. Jennings	1948-1950
F. L. Schwartz	1950-1953
M. S. Gjesdahl	1953-1956
C. M. Leonard	1956-1959
D. S. Clark	1959-1962
E.K. Springer	1962-1968
D.R.Haworth	1968-1971
J. W. Bayne	1971-1974
E. W. Jerger	1974-1977
S. Chandra	1977-1980
A. R. Peters	1980-1983
H. C. Hewitt, Jr.	1983-1986
W. B. Cottingham	1986-1989
J.R. Welty	1989-1992
S.P. Kezios	1992-

Victor Goldschmidt	-2004
Tom Burton	2004-2008
Mun Y. Choi	2008-2017
Darryl James	2017-

National Vice-Presidents
J. B. Wilkenson	1920-1922
G. L. Larson	1923-1925	W.W. Yuen	1989-
G. A. Young	1926-1928	D. Kadaba	1991-
C. A. Joerger	1929-1931	R. Gaither	1992-
Daniel Roesch	1932-1934
E. S. Gray	1935-1937
v. L. Maleev	1938-1940
T. G. Estep	1941
J. V. Martenis	1941-1944
F. V. Larkin	1945-1947
B. H. Jennings	1945-1947
E. S. Gray	1947
C. H. Kent	1948-1949
F. L. Schwartz	1948-1950
E. C. Baker	1948-1949
M. S. Gjesdahl	1949-1953
S. F. Duncan	1949-1955
C. M. Leonard	1950-1956
M. J. Goglia	1953-1958
J. W. Bunting	1955-1961
E. K. Springer	1956-1962
G. B. Thorn	1958-1964
E. C. Hoelscher	1961-1967
N. H. Barnard	1962	Gloria J. Wiens	-2017
D.R. Haworth	1963-1968
C. R. Hayleck, Jr	1964-1970
E.W. Jerger	1967-1973	Ed Griggs
E. L. Dowty	1968-1975	Massoud Kaviany
S. Chandra	1970, 1976	Hassan Ghazi	-2004
W.T. McKie	1973-1974	Tom Burton	2004-
G. C. Whitehouse	1974-1979	Ron D. Boyd	2004-2012
A. R. Peters	1975-1980	Dave Bayless	-2010
J. R. Gartner	1976-1982	Franco Capaldi	-2011
W. B. Cottingham	1979-1985	Chris Wilson	2010-1020
J. N. Crisp	1981-1984	Raghu Echempati	2011-2013
W. W. Walter	1982-1988	Antonios Kontsos	2013-2023
J. R. Welty	1984-1986	Altaf Khan	2014-2019
S. P. Kezios	1986-1991	Darryl James	2014-2017
C. Spiekerman	1988-1992	Yolanda Mack	2017-2025
		Bogdan Epureanu	2020-
		Cynthia Mitchell	2023-
		Jacob McFarland	2023-

National Secretary-Treasurers
G. L. Larson	1920-1922
J. V. Manenis	1923-1931
H. E. Degler	1932-1940
E. S. Gray	1941-1946
L. J. Bradford	1947
D. S. Clark	1948-1959
J. W. Bayne	1959-1971
H. C. Hewitt, Jr.,	1971-1983
Ed I. Griggs	1983-1995
Farrokh Mistree	1995-2008
Alex Moutsoglou	2008-2020
Gregory Michna	2020-2023
Arden Moore	2023-

National Conventions
	Place	Year	Host Chapter
1	Chicago, IL	1916	Organization
2	Urbana, IL	1917	Illinois Alpha
3	Madison, WI	1920	Wisconsin Alpha
4	Urbana, IL	1921	Illinois Alpha
5	Madison, WI	1922	Wisconsin Alpha
6	Lafayette, IN	1923	Purdue Beta
7	Minneapolis, MN	1924	Minnesota Gamma
8	Urbana, IL	1925	Illinois Alpha
9	Madison, WI	1926	Wisconsin Alpha
10	Lafayette, IN	1927	Purdue Beta
11	Chicago, IL	1928	Armour Delta
12	Cincinnati, OH	1929	Cincinnati Eta
13	State College, PA	1930	Penn State Zeta
14	Columbia, MO	1931	Missouri Epsilon
15	Urbana, IL	1932	Illinois Alpha
16	Chicago, IL	1933	Armour Delta
17	Madison, WI	1934	Wisconsin Alpha
18	Lafayette, IN	1935	Purdue Beta
19	Austin, TX	1936	Texas Kappa
20	Bethlehem/Philadelphia, PA	1937	Lehigh Theta and Drexel Xi
21	Stillwater, OK	1938	Oklahoma Lambda
22	Atlanta, GA	1939	Georgia Tech Nu
23	Iowa City, IA	1940	Iowa Omicron
24	Pittsburg, PA	1941	Carnegie Iota
25	Minneapolis, MN	1942	Minnesota Gamma
26	Austin, TX	1946	Texas Kappa
27	Lafayette, IN	1947	Purdue Beta
28	Madison, WI	1948	Wisconsin Alpha
29	Bethlehem, PA	1949	Lehigh Theta
30	Cincinnati, OH	1950	Cincinnati Eta
31	Lexington, KY	1951	Kentucky Pi Lambda
32	Milwaukee, WI	1952	Marquette Pi Delta
33	Ann Arbor, MI	1953	Michigan Pi Rho
34	Blacksburg, VA	1954	Virginia Tech Upsilon
35	Stillwater, OK	1955	Oklahoma Lambda
36	State College, PA	1956	Penn State Zeta
37	Cambridge, MA	1957	MIT Pi Kappa

National Conventions
	Place	Year	Host Chapter
38	Detroit, MI	1958	Detroit Pi Eta
39	Pittsburgh, PA	1959	Pittsburgh Tau
40	St. Louis, MO	1960	Washington Pi Chi
41	New York, NY	1961	C.C.N.Y. Pi Beta
42	Lincoln, NE	1962	Nebraska Pi
43	Chicago, IL	1963	Illinois Alpha, Illinois Tech Delta, and Northwestern Pi Theta
44	College Park, MD	1964	Maryland Tau Mu
45	Dallas, TX	1965	S.M.U. Tau Sigma
46	Chicago, IL	1966	Illinois Alpha and Wisconsin Alpha
47	Lawrence, KS	1967	Kansas Psi
48	Detroit, MI	1968	Detroit Pi Eta
49	Lafayette, IN	1969	Purdue Beta
50	Stillwater, OK	1970	Oklahoma State Lambda
51	Baton Rouge, LA	1971	L. S. U. Tau Zeta
52	Blacksburg, VA	1972	Virginia Tech Upsilon
53	College Station, TX	1973	Texas A & M Sigma Delta
54	Notre Dame, IN	1974	Notre Dame Sigma Beta
55	Houston, TX	1975	Houston Sigma Zeta
56	Atlanta, GA	1976	Georgia Tech Nu
57	Baton Rouge, LA	1977	Southern Delta Mu
58	Lincoln, NE	1978	Nebraska Pi
59	Columbus, OH	1979	Ohio State Pi Mu
60	Champaign/Urbana, IL	1980	Illinois Alpha
61	Santa Barbara, CA	1981	U.C.S.B. Delta Phi
62	College Station, TX	1982	Texas A & M Sigma Delta
63	Manhattan, KS	1983	Kansas State Rho
64	Columbus, OH	1984	Ohio State Pi Mu
65	Austin, TX	1985	Texas Kappa
66	Blacksburg, VA	1986	Virginia Tech Upsilon
67	Atlanta, GA	1987	Georgia Tech Nu
68	Raleigh, NC	1988	NC State Pi Alpha
69	Tempe, AZ	1989	Arizona State Sigma Gamma
70	Boston, MA	1990	Northeastern Tau Kappa
71	Champaign-Urbana, Illinois	1991	Illinois Alpha
72	Minneapolis, MN	1992	Minnesota Gamma
73		1993
74		1994

National Conventions
	Place	Year	Host Chapter
75		1995
76		1996
77	Ann Arbor, MI	1997	Michigan Pi Rho
78	Tuskegee, AL	1998	Tuskegee Sigma Psi
79	Atlanta, GA	1999	Georgia Tech Nu
80	College Station, TX	2000	Texas A&M Sigma Delta
81	Madison, WI	2001	Wisconsin Alpha
82	College Park, MD	2003	Maryland Tau Mu
83	Lubbock, TX	2004	Texas Tech Sigma Epsilon
84	Clemson, SC	2005	Clemson Phi Kappa
85	Philadelphia, PA	2006	Drexel Xi
86	Lafayette, IN	2007	Purdue Beta
87	Atlanta, GA	2008	Georgia Tech Nu
88	Ann Arbor, MI	2009	Michigan Pi Rho
89	Lubbock, TX	2010	Texas Tech Sigma Epsilon
90	Chicago, IL	2011	UIC Alpha Sigma
91	San Jose, CA	2012	San Jose Phi Zeta
92	Columbus, OH	2013	Ohio State Pi Mu
93	College Station, TX	2014	Texas A&M Sigma Delta
94	Urbana, IL	2015	Illinois Alpha
95	Los Angeles, CA	2016	USC Tau Beta
96	Philadelphia, PA	2017	Drexel Xi
97	Coral Gables, FL	2018	Miami Sigma Upsilon
98	Fort Collins, CO	2019	Colorado State Tau Psi
99	Rochester, NY	2020	Rochester Delta Pi
100	Virtual	2021	Organization
101	Chicago, IL	2022	UIC Alpha Sigma
102	Auburn, AL	2023	Auburn Chi
103	Ann Arbor, MI	2024	Michigan Pi Rho
104		2025
105		2026
106		2027
107		2028
108		2029
109		2030
110		2031
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PI TAU SIGMA GOLD MEDAL AWARD

The Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal is awarded to the young engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten years following receipt of the baccalaureate degree. Any person who, on July 1 of the year of the award, graduated not more than ten years from the regular engineering program of a recognized college or university shall be eligible for recognition.
PI TAU SIGMA GOLD MEDAL AWARD RECIPIENTS
1938	Wilfred E. Johnson	1969	Henry K. Newhall	2002	Assimina A. Pelegri
1939	John Yellot, Jr.	1970	Richard E. Barrett	2003	Bogdan I. Epureanu
1940	George A. Hawkins	1971	James R. Rice	2004	Kenneth A. Gall
1941	R. Hosmer Norris	1972	John F. Stephens III	2006	Nicholas Fang
1942	John T. Rettaliata	1973	Christian E.G. Przirembel	2009	A. John Hart
1943-46	No award due to war	1974	Jace W. Nunziato	2010	David L. Burris
1947	David Cochrane	1975	Ted B. Belytschko	2011	David Saintillan
1948	Walter G. Vincenti	1976	John S. Walker	2012	Amos G. Winter V
1949	Phillip S. Myers	1977	Richard E. Lovejoy	2013	Randy H. Ewoldt
1950	Arthur P. Adamson	1978	David A. Peters	2014	Ibrahim T. Ozbolat
1951	Warren M. Rohsenow	1980	Doyle D. Knight	2015	Neil P. Dasgupta
1952	Robert L. O'Brien	1982	Polychronis-Thomas	2016	David L. Hennan
1953	Merle Baker	1982	Pol D. Spanos	2017	Shannon K. Yee
1954	Emmett E. Day	1984	Michael R. Muller	2018	Nenad K. Miljkovic
1955	Robert C. Dean, Jr.	1985	Wing Kam Liu	2019	Jesse Capecelatro
1956	John A. Clark	1986	Dimos Poulikakos	2020	David Kwabi
1957	Patrick McDonald, Jr.	1987	David L. McDowell	2021	Yangying Zhu
1958	Allison E. Simons	1988	Mark F. Hamilton	2022	R. Renee Zhao
1959	Donald F. Hays	1989	Steven M. Wilson	2023	Akanksha K. Menon
1960	George Hatsopoulos	1990	Dionissios N. Assanis
1961	Ernest T. Selig	1991	Yves H. Berthelot
1962	E. Bruce Lee	1993	Melany L. Hunt
1963	Herbert Richardson	1994	Zhigang Suo
1964	Richard L. Peskin	1995	Thomas R. Kurfess
1965	John Bollinger	1996	Gregory S. Chirikjian
1966	Jason R. Lemon	1998	Wei Chen
1967	William O'Donnell	1999	Margaret S. Wooldridge
1968	Randall F. Barron	2000	Connie J. Buynacek

PI TAU SIGMA GUSTUS L. LARSON MEMORIAL AWARD
The Pi Tau Sigma Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award is presented to the engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering within ten to twenty years following graduation. Any person who, on July 1 of the year of the award, graduated not more than twenty years nor less than ten years from the regular engineering program of a recognized college or university shall be eligible for recognition.
The award, established in 1974, honors Gustus L. Larson, ASME Fellow and founder of Pi Tau Sigma at the University of Wisconsin. He was a recognized leader in heating, ventilating, and air conditioning and was a former president of the ASHVE.
GUSTUS L. LARSON MEMORIAL AWARD RECIPIENTS
1975	Chang-Lin Tien	1999	James H. Oliver
1976	John G. Bollinger	2000	Cristina H. Amon
1977	Nam P. Suh	2001	Arunava Majumdar
1978	Philip H. Francis	2002	Thomas R. Kurfess
1979	Gerald R. Seeman	2003	Yonggang Huang
1980	Arthur G. Erdman	2004	Suresh V. Garimella
1981	Terry E. Shoup	2005	Robert Parker
1982	Melvyn C. Branch	2006	Narayana R.V. Aluru
1983	R. Byron Pipes	2008	Andrew G. Alleyne
1984	Robert A. Altenkirch	2009	Anna G. Stefanopoulou
1985	Klaus-Jurgen Bathe	2010	Andrei G. Fedorov
1986	Bharat Bhushan	2011	Arvind Raman
1987	David L. Butler	2012	Nicolas G. Hadjiconstantinou
1988	Adrian Bejan	2013	William P. King
1989	Boris Rubinsky	2014	Wei Lu
1990	Dale E. Klein	2015	Nikhil Ashok Koratkar
1991	Pol D. Spanos	2016	Kenneth T. Christensen
1992	George P. Peterson	2017	Evelyn N. Wang
1993	Bahram Ravani	2018	Kripa K. Varanasi
1994	Salvatore Torquato	2019	Yong Zhu
1995	Wing Kam Liu	2020	Yuri Bazilevs
1996	David N. Ku	2021	Patrick E. Hopkins
1997	Suhada Jayasuriya	2022	Yihui Zhang
1998	Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi	2023	Devesh Ranjan

PI TAU SIGMA CHARLES RUSS RICHARDS MEMORIAL AWARD
The Pi Tau Sigma Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award is presented to the engineering graduate who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in mechanical engineering twenty years or more following graduation. Any person who, on July 1 of the year of the award, graduated twenty years or more from the regular engineering program of a recognized college or university shall be eligible for recognition.
The award, established in 1944 by Pi Tau Sigma in coordination with ASME, honors Charles Russ Richards, founder of Pi Tau Sigma at the University of Illinois, former head of mechanical engineering and dean of engineering at the University of Illinois and later president of Lehigh University. He was a member of ASME and served on its Board of Governors.
PI TAU SIGMA CHARLES RUSS RICHARDS MEMORIAL AWARD RECIPIENTS
1947	Jacob P. Hartog	1979	John H. Lienhard	2012	Pol D. Spanos
1949	Arthur M. Wahl	1980	Albert I. King	2013	A. Galip Ulsoy
1950	Burgess H. Jennings	1981	Shien-Ming Wu	2014	Suresh V. Garimella
1951	J. Kenneth Salisbury	1982	L. S. "Skip" Fletcher	2015	Zhang Xiang
1952	Jess H. Davis	1983	Peter A. Engel	2016	Kenneth E. Goodson
1953	Thomas M. Lumly	1984	Ferdinand Freudenstein	2017	Jian Cao
1954	Robert H. Hughes	1985	Ephraim M. Sparrow	2018	Kon-Well Wang
1955	Sylvan Cromer	1986	E. Kent Springer	2019	Pradeep Sharma
1956	Everett M. Barber	1987	Allen F. Rhodes	2020	Katepalli R. Sreenivasan
1957	Wayne C. Edmister	1988	Ward O. Winer	2021	Wei Chen
1958	Donald C. Burnham	1989	Ramesh K. Shah	2022	Norman Fleck
1959	M. Eugene Merchant	1990	Ranga Komanduri	2023	Robert O. Ambrose
1960	Ascher H. Shapiro	1991	Frederick F. Ling
1961	Harrison A. Storm, Jr.	1992	John H. Staehlin
1962	Dudley D. Fuller	1994	C. Dan Mote, Jr.
1963	George F. Carrier	1995	Junuthula N. Reddy
1964	Simon Ostrach	1996	Tsu-Wei Chou
1965	Leonard J. Koch	1997	Masayoshi Tomizuka
1966	J. Lowen Shearer	1998	Hong Thomas Hahn
1967	T. Cyril Noon	1999	Ephraim Suhir
1968	Bernard W. Shaffer	2000	Bharat Bhushan
1969	Robert E. Uhrig	2001	Adrian Bejan
1970	Ralph G. Nevins	2002	Salvatore Torquato
1971	Howard L. Harrison	2003	Roop L. Mahajan
1972	Charles E. Jones	2005	Warren R. DeVries
1973	Ali A. Seireg	2006	Ramesh K. Agarwal
1974	Richard J. Grosh	2007	Ricahrd O. Buckius
1975	Carl F. Zorowski	2008	Guruswami Ravichandran
1976	Ali S. Argon	2009	E. Daniel Hirleman
1977	Hassan A. Hassan	2010	Yonggang Huang
1978	John C. Chato	2011	Huajian Gao

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