Inaugural PiDay Celebration Featured a Lot of Pies for a Great Cause

The College of Engineering and Technology and Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society chapter, held an event Wednesday at which students can pay for a chance to Pi(e) their favorite professor. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)

The College of Engineering and Technology (CET) and Tau Beta Pi, the College’s engineering honor society chapter, held the inaugural PiDay celebration on, you guessed it, March 14 (3/14). The event gave College students a chance to vote for their favorite professors to get pied in the face. Students paid for each vote and an opportunity to do the actual pieing.

The event had two purposes. First, the chapter wanted to raise the awareness of the College’s engineering program and second, the chapter also wanted to raise money to purchase a bent, a traditional bronze symbol that represents past, current and future engineering successes and excellence.

Regarding raising awareness, local press attended the event. You can find the Reflector’s story here.

Additionally, the chapter raised almost $150.

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And, for the curious, Dr. Collen Janeiro, a CET professor, was voted most popular. She and two other professors, Drs. Chris Venters and Teresa Ryan, were voted second and third favorite professors. All three were pied in the face at, you guessed it again, 3:14 p.m.