Clubs and Organizations

Student organizations are a very important part of the college experience. They encourage teamwork, leadership, improved organizational skills and creativity, while cultivating professional interests.

ASME: The American Society of Mechanical Engineers is an international organization founded to promote and enhance the technical competency and professional well-being of its members. The focus of the student chapter is to mirror these values while providing a sense of community for students of mechanical engineering. The chapter also serves to arrange member events, such as community outreach; field trips to local industry; guest speakers; and workshops, including those related to the pursuit of higher education and career building. Co-presidents: Maxwell Micali '12 and Courtney Engle '12. Faculty Adviser: Dr. Beth Anne Bennett, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.

AIChE: The Yale student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers sponsors activities focused on the technical interests of its members and professional opportunities for beginning engineers. Members also participate in activities sponsored by the New Haven professional chapter. Membership is open to undergraduates enrolled in any engineering program. Faculty Adviser: Dr. Yehia Khalil, Chemical & Environmental Engineering.

BMES: Organized in 2002, the Yale Chapter of the Biomedical Engineering Society is a support network and forum for biomedical engineering students. The Chapter works to increase awareness about biomedical engineering (a field that applies the principles of basic science and engineering to medicine) and schedules speakers and field trips to local industries. It also interacts with the National Biomedical Engineering Society to keep Yale BME majors informed about biomedical research at other institutions. Chair: Nicholas Adams '13. Faculty Advisors: Prof. James Duncan, Diagnostic Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical Engineering and Mark Saltzman, Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Environmental Engineering.

Bulldogs Racing: Founded in 2006, Bulldogs Racing provides an opportunity to develop real-world engineering skills through automotive technology. The team designs and builds a formula-style car to race in the Formula Hybrid International competition held annually by the Society of Automotive Engineers. President: Adam Goone '13. Faculty Adviser: Prof. John Morrell, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.

EWB: Engineers Without Borders is an undergraduate organization that strives to foster the creative and innovative application of engineering and multi-disciplinary skills in collaboration with stake holders to realize change and to improve the environment, health, and community capacity in international projects. President: Rohan Agarwal '12 and Jonathan Yeh '12. Faculty Adviser: Prof. William Mitch, Chemical & Environmental Engineering.

IEEE: With more than 300,000 members worldwide, IEEE is the largest professional organization of its kind. The Y-IEEE involves students and faculty. It maintains a student lounge with project components, Sun workstations, and a reference library. Members receive IEEE publications at reduced rates. Activities include bi-weekly meetings, design projects, a student-run Internet, social gatherings, and speakers. The Y-IEEE received the Exemplary Student Branch Award for 1994-95 from the parent IEEE. President: Brigid Blakeslee '13. Faculty Adviser: Prof. Mark Reed, Electrical Engineering.

NSBE-Yale: The National Society of Black Engineers seeks to increase the number of black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and have a positive impact on the community. Founded in 1975, NSBE has 15,000 undergraduate members in more than 300 chapters on U.S. and foreign college campuses and 80 alumni chapters. The Yale chapter, founded in 1992, coordinates events on campus and attends NSBE-sponsored workshops on academic excellence, professional development, and networking with representatives from major corporations and NSBE members from other colleges. Because all students can benefit from NSBE's resources, NSBE-Yale welcomes students regardless of discipline or ethnicity. Faculty Adviser: Prof. André Taylor, Chemical & Environmental Engineering.

SWE: SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.

TAU BETA PI: Tau Beta Pi is the only national engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession.  The first Connecticut chapter of Tau Beta Pi --- Connecticut Alpha --- was established at Yale in 1923.  Connecticut Alpha admits Juniors in the top 1/8 of their class and Seniors in the top 1/5 of their class who are majoring in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.  Membership in Tau Beta Pi grants students access to a large network of academic, professional, and financial resources.  At Yale, Connecticut Alpha members organize events to promote engineering culture at Yale and in the greater New Haven community.  President: E. Bryn Pitt '12.  Faculty Adviser: Dr. Beth Anne Bennett, Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.

Yale Scientific Magazine: YSM is the oldest college science journal in the country. It enables Yale undergraduates to acquire experience with science reporting, editing, photography, graphics, magazine business, and production. The Co-Publishers are Sameer Gupta '10 and Bing Han '11. Faculty Adviser: Prof. Sean Barrett, Physics.

YSEES: Yale Students for Environmental Engineering and Sustainability was organized in 2002. YSEES looks for environmental engineering jobs and internship opportunities for its members; promotes interest in environmental engineering within the Yale community; seeks to foster interaction among Environmental Engineering undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, and sponsors speakers. Faculty Adviser: Prof. William Mitch, Chemical & Environmental Engineering.

YUAA: The Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association is a student-run organization dedicated to air and space investigations. Each year the group plans several engineering projects and organize aerospace-related speakers events to present on campus. Recently, YUAA began a high-altitude weather balloon series, hoping to capture photos of space and the Earth from the upper stratosphere. YUAA successfully launched and retrieved their high-altitude vehicle, named Horizon, in April 2011. President: Israel Kositsky (BK ’13). Co-founders: Israel Kositsky (BK ’13) and Jan Kolmas (TC ’14)

Yale Undergraduate Robotics: Robots are improving standards of living in numerous ways; they can complete tasks as mundane as sweeping the bedroom floor, as critical as performing a cardiac surgery, and as ambitious as exploring new worlds. Yale Undergraduate Robotics researches fundamental technologies required to create such robust, marketable robotic systems. As an undergraduate organization, YUR also highlights mainstream robotics research underway on-campus and make it accessible to Yale students. Co-founders: Usman Anwer '13 (CEO) and Ben Sherman '13 (CFO). Faculty Adviser: Prof. A. Stephen Morse, Electrical Engineering.