Mabel Baleigh Olson

Mabel is from Sullivan County and a graduate of Sullivan East High School. She is the daughter of Melissa Pope and William Olson. At Sullivan East, she served as Student Council president, Homecoming Chair, SkillsUSA CAD president, and Mu Alpha Theta secretary/treasurer. She was a Peer Tutor for math students. She was a member of National Honors Society, Beta Club, and was a senior leader on the Sullivan East Lady Patriot Basketball Team. She earned third place in technical drafting at SkillsUSA State Competition and a Certificate of Merit in Personal Finance, CAD 1 and CAD 2. She was nominated by her principal for the EPIC Award. She was recognized by Middle Tennessee State University for outstanding academic dedication as a freshman, to be a part of the True Blue 100.

Mabel is attending Tennessee Technological University and majors in Electrical Engineering.  At TTU, Mabel serves as Vice President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Treasurer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). She is a member of Tau Beta Pi.  She completed an electrical engineering internship at Nuclear Fuel Services,  a summer internship with Bright Ridge of Johnson City, and has she been selected for a third internship at Gerdau, which is a steel manufacturing company. She was awarded the Captain William Lafayette Anderson Endowed Scholarship for Electrical and Computer Engineering,  the Excellence in Electric Power Endowed Scholarship,  the department’s Engineering Joint Council’s Scholarship, the Tennessee Valley Authority Endowed Upperclassmen Scholarship, and the Marie Ventrice Endowed Engineering Scholarship.  She was selected to receive the departments outstanding senior ward.