BLACKSBURG, Va., May 1, 2009 –– Thomas B. Cox of Boulder, Colo., who earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in metallurgical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1966 and in 1968, respectively, is a 2009 inductee into Virginia Tech’s College of Engineering Academy of Engineering Excellence, joining an elite group of 90 individuals out of more than 50,000 living engineering alumni.