Student Groups

Alpha Eta Mu Beta Honor Society

This organization is the Biomedical Engineering honor society. The society promotes an understanding of the profession and recognizes and encourages excellence in the field. The purpose of the society is to bring into closer union and to mark in an outstanding manner those biomedical engineers who have manifested a deep interest and marked ability in their chosen life work so as to promote an understanding of their profession and to develop its members professionally. There are currently twenty-two chapters of this society in the country.

American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Student Chapter

AIAA is the principal society for the aerospace profession, providing for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge of the theory and practice of the aeronautical and astronautical sciences. It affords students the opportunity to explore interests in the aerospace industry and encourages professional consciousness and fellowship. The student branch sponsors plant trips, lectures by industry professionals, and an alumni/student social event. Members can also participate in projects such as remote-control aircraft design. Membership is open to all students at 波士顿大学.

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Student Section

This national society, with more than 100,000 regular members and 250 student sections, is dedicated to advancing the profession of mechanical engineering. Members are active at all levels of almost every segment of business, industry, education, and government. Membership in the student section brings students into contact with practicing engineers through technical meetings with guest speakers, field trips to local industries, and regional and national society functions, including the regular meetings of the Boston section of ASME. Upon graduation, student members can become associate members of the society. Student membership is open to full-time undergraduate and graduate students.

Biomedical Engineering Society, Student Chapter

This professional society is concerned with the application of all engineering specialties to health care and the life sciences. The student chapter sponsors lectures and collects information about graduate training and career opportunities. Membership is open to all engineering and science students at 波士顿大学.

BU Energy Club

The BU Energy Club is a broad-based multi-disciplinary group consisting of undergraduates, graduates, alumni, and faculty that serves as a link between scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, and business people at 波士顿大学 and at other schools and universities in the greater Boston area. Its aim is to synthesize energy-related ideas from multidisciplinary educational and professional sources in order to advance understanding of energy and its role within society, industry, technology, and policy through empirical, objective energy-related education and outreach.

Engineers Without Borders

Engineers Without Borders is a nonprofit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.

Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society

This organization is the national Electrical and Computer Engineering honor society. The organization was founded in 1904 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently, there are over 200 chapters in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Eta Kappa Nu recognizes scholarship and aims to assist members in becoming better professionals.

FIRST Robotics Team

FIRST stands for “For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology” and is a national organization (www.usfirst.org) that aims to encourage high school students to get excited about science and technology. Every spring hundreds of teams across the country design and build robots to play in a game specified by the FIRST organization. The robots compete in regional competitions in March/April; winners then go to Atlanta, Georgia, for the national competition at the end of April.

The BU FIRST Robotics team (Team 246) has been in existence since 1998. The team is run by BU undergraduates who work with high school pupils from the BU Academy and other area high schools. Students can be involved in a number of activities within the team including fund-raising, mechanical design and fabrication, electrical design and fabrication, software design, and management.

Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, Inc., Student Chapter

This professional society serves the broad spectrum of engineering applications of the electrical and computer sciences. More than 30 professional groups within IEEE cover a wide range of disciplines including all of the academic programs offered at the College of Engineering. Membership is open to all engineering and science students at 波士顿大学.

Institute of Industrial Engineers

The Institute of Industrial Engineers aims to promote a better environment for successful engineers by bridging the gap between school and industry. Members familiarize themselves with the intricacies of industry though plant tours, speakers, and hands-on experiences. The organization helps to provide students with insight into careers in industrial engineering.

Minority Engineers Society

The Minority Engineers Society is a student organization founded to foster the academic and social development of minorities by informing them of opportunities open to them. The society sponsors a guest speakers series, a career fair, various workshops, an academic reference library, tutoring services and tutorial study sessions, industrial field trips, a résumé book, and the annual awards banquet where scholarships are presented. MES is a chapter of the National Society for Black Engineers and is open to all students of 波士顿大学.

Pi Tau Sigma Honor Society

Pi Tau Sigma is the national mechanical engineering honor society. The objectives of this society are to encourage and recognize the achievements of undergraduate students in mechanical engineering, to foster high ideals in the engineering profession, to develop leadership and citizenship, to stimulate and support departmental activities, and to honor practicing engineers for distinguished technical attainments.

Rocket Team

The Rocket Team is an undergraduate student group which focuses on the design, research, and development of rockets and rocket engines. The Rocket Team’s current project is research in hybrid rocket engine performance. In the past the team has designed, built and tested several solid fuel rocket engines including an aerospike rocket engine.

Sigma Gamma Tau Honor Society

Sigma Gamma Tau is the honor society for aerospace engineering. The objective of the society is to recognize and honor those individuals in the field of aeronautics and astronautics who have, through scholarship, integrity, and outstanding achievement, been a credit to their profession. The society seeks to foster a high standard of ethics and professional practice and to create a spirit of loyalty and fellowship, particularly among students of aerospace engineering.

Society of Automotive Engineers

The Society of Automotive Engineers comprises 50,000 engineers and scientists working together to advance the field of mobility. With their diverse educational backgrounds, members are dedicated to furthering the research, development, design, manufacture, and utilization of land, sea, air, and space vehicles.

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

The society promotes the development of Hispanics in engineering, science, and other technical professions to achieve educational excellence, economic opportunity, and social equity. Its objectives are to increase educational opportunities; promote professional and personal growth; implement the social responsibilities related to education, business, and government issues; and enhance the reputation of, and students’ pride in, the organization and its vital contributions.

Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Student Chapter

This professional society stimulates research and disseminates knowledge in all phases of manufacturing engineering. Student members participate in field trips, technical seminars, and lecture series, and are upgraded automatically to regular society membership one year after graduation. Student membership is open to undergraduate and graduate students.

Society of Women Engineers, Student Section

This professional society is a nonprofit, educational service organization of graduate women engineers and women with equivalent engineering experience. The objectives of the society are: to inform young women, their parents, counselors, and the general public of the qualifications and achievements of women engineers and the opportunities open to them; to assist women engineers in readying themselves for a return to active work after temporary retirement; to serve as a center of information on women in engineering; to encourage women engineers to attain high levels of educational and professional achievement. Membership is open to all students in the College of Engineering.

Student Government Association

The Student Government Association represents the College of Engineering undergraduate population. Its purpose is to promote School and class interest. The Engineering Student Government Association is comprised of class officers and the executive board. It is a subgroup of the University’s Student Union.

Students for the Advancement of Nanotechnology

The Students for the Advancement of Nanotechnology (SANT) is an organization for students interested in the field of nanotechnology. SANT educates their members about nanotechnology through bi-weekly meetings, during which nanotechnology research is discussed. SANT plans to bring in researchers in the nanotechnology field to present their work and representatives of nanotechnology companies to educate students about the nanotechnology job market.

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

SEDS an independent, student-based organization that promotes the exploration and development of space. Its mission is to educate students about the benefits of space and to provide an opportunity for students to develop leadership skills through involvement in space-related projects.

Tau Beta Pi Association

This national engineering honor society was founded in 1885 to offer appropriate recognition for superior scholarship and exemplary character to engineering students and professional persons. Tau Beta Pi has collegiate chapters at 205 institutions and a total initiated membership of more than 358,000.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

The Unmanned Aerial Vehicles team’s mission is to excite students about the field of unmanned aerial robotics. To accomplish this mission, the team is focusing its efforts on building an entry for the 2011 AUVSI International Aerial Robotics competition. This exciting and multifaceted project involves designing, building, and flying a fully autonomous micro air vehicle through an indoor course while carrying out various high level interactions with objects inside.[/collapsible]