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Lucas Zmroczek ’10 (Leesport, Pa.) has received an undergraduate scholarship from Tau Beta Pi, the national engineering honor society.
Tau Beta Pi scholarships are awarded on the competitive criteria of high scholarship, campus leadership and service, and promise of future contributions to the engineering profession. Awards consist of $2,000 to be used during the senior year of full-time engineering study.
An electrical and computer engineering major, Zmroczek has taken advantage of Lafayette’s distinctive combination of liberal arts and engineering by participating in a variety of opportunities.
During the spring 2008 semester, he studied engineering and German language and culture in a program at Jacobs University Bremen in Germany led by Erol Ulucakli, associate professor of mechanical engineering.
This summer, he is participating in the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates program at North Carolina State University, studying batteries for electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles. His work involves simulating and testing driving demands on lithium ion batteries and looking at ways of combining batteries and ultra capacitors for increased performance in electric/hybrid vehicles.
Last summer, he served an internship at PPL, an electric utility company in Allentown. He helped plan projects to improve electric power reliability for customers and to provide power to new and existing customers. Zmroczek also has been active in the Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu (electrical and computer engineering), and Pi Mu Epsilon (mathematics) honor societies.
He plans to pursue a doctoral degree in graduate school.