Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honor Society, Selects Manhattan University Student For Its Scholarship

Dominique A. Whyte, a senior chemical engineering major at Manhattan University, was awarded a Stabile Scholarship from Tau Beta Pi. Founded in 1885 and with 257 collegiate chapters, Tau Beta Pi is the world’s largest engineering honor society.

Whyte, an international student at Manhattan University, hails from Jamaica where her interest in engineering began as a high school student at Manchester High School. In addition to her chemical engineering major at Manhattan, she is a chemistry and mathematics minor. Her interests particularly focus on energy/water projects.

The Stabile Scholarship, one of a group of Tau Beta Pi scholarships awarded to 253 students this year, is highly competitive with close to 1,350 applications from students already inducted into the honor society. The Fellowship Board stated that the awards are based on “…high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and the promise of future contributions to the engineering profession.”

Said Whyte, “I am so honored to receive this award from Tau Beta Pi. The monetary stipend will be most helpful to me as I continue my studies; however, the recognition based on leadership and service is particularly gratifying. As someone who tutors other students in both chemistry and calculus, I believe that leading by example and sharing skills is incredibly important, and I am most grateful to my professors at Manhattan University who challenge me on a daily basis and prepare me for my professional career in engineering.”

Said Anirban De, Ph.D., P.E., Interim Dean of the School of Engineering, “We are extremely proud of Dominique and all her accomplishments thus far. Receiving a Stabile Scholarship from Tau Beta Pi places her in a very elite group of engineering students nationwide. Not only does she excel academically, but she gives of her time by tutoring and helping others. This is the true Lasallian spirit of Manhattan University.”

In addition to the Stabile Tau Beta Pi Scholarship, Whyte is the recipient of numerous other awards, including a Manhattan University Trustee International Student Scholarship, the Society of Women Engineers GE Foundation Scholarship, and the New York Water Environment Association Student Chapter Scholarship. She has interned at three leading multi-national engineering firms during the past two summers, and already has received full-time employment opportunities upon her graduation from Manhattan University in the spring of 2025.