Student Organizations

Institute of Electric and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Cornell chapter

The IEEE (Eye-triple-E) is a non-profit, technical professional association of more than 380,000 individual members in 150 countries. The full name is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., although the organization is most popularly known and referred to by the letters I-E-E-E.

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Eta Kappa Nu, Kappa Chapter, HKN

The Eta Kappa Nu Association is the International Honor Society for Electrical Engineers. A Chapter or Eta Branch of Eta Kappa Nu has been established at Cornell University and at approximately 200 other locations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Outstanding persons are elected to Eta Kappa Nu primarily from the junior and senior classes of accredited undergraduate programs. Graduate Students and distinguished professional engineers are also eligible.

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Engineering Graduate Student Association

The Engineering members of the GPSA COR group began meeting during the summer of 1998 to talk about issues specific to the Engineering College. One of the first things we did as a group was to send a letter to the deans regarding the Duffield Hall situation as we were led to understand it at the time.

In response to the climate assessment of last spring, we decided this summer to establish a graduate student social seminar series which would encourage interaction between graduate students and faculty in different departments. We discussed the idea with Dean Spiro of the Engineering College, and were given two thumbs up and the financial support necessary to initiate the lecture series.

In part to facilitate funding, we decided to form a new organization - the Engineering Graduate Student Association (EGSA) - to coordinate this lecture series and other social, climate-enhancing activities, rather than manage them through the University-wide GPSA. We established the EGSA in late September, with several COR members as officers and Dean Spiro as the faculty advisor.

The first event, held in October, was a combined lecture/dinner event featuring Prof. Stephen Strogatz speaking about small world networks and then a dinner of pizza, soda, and beer. Attended by 130 people, this inaugural event surpassed the expectations of the EGSA officers and indicated both the interest of graduate students in such activities and the need for similar events in the future.

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