Student Organizations

Engineering Societies

Tau Beta Pi

Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society that represents the entire engineering profession. It is the nation's second oldest honor society, founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to recognize students of exemplary character and distinguished scholarship. There are now collegiate chapters at 221 US colleges and universities, active alumni chapters in 16 regions across the United States, and a total initiated membership of 429,000.

The California Gamma chapter of Tau Beta Pi at Stanford serves the Stanford community by providing valuable engineering resources. For example, the online Engineering Course Guide, which was recently merged with the ASSU Course Guide, provides useful feedback and information about the various engineering classes offered at Stanford.

Tau Beta Pi members provide peer tutoring services the latest of which is the Engineering E-Advising program, which provides an online forum for undergraduates to ask upperclassmen questions regarding different majors, careers, and research opportunities in the engineering field.

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.stanford.edu/group/tbp, stop by the Office of Student Affairs in Terman 201, or send an e-mail to president@taubetapi.stanford.edu.

Stanford Engineering Association

The Stanford Engineering Association (SEA) is a board of students whose primary aim is to help unite students, faculty, staff, and administrators within the School of Engineering and related departments. SEA also strives to enhance the academic, social, and cultural life of the Stanford engineering community. SEA receives a portion of the profits from the food concession located on the bottom floor of Terman. The association awards grants to individuals and groups in support of projects realizing SEA's objectives. Please see http://www.stanford.edu/group/SEA for more information and proposal criteria.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Stanford Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, pronounced "eye-triple-E") is the CS- and EE-department-backed academic, professional and networking society for computer science and electrical engineering students. IEEE is a professional association of over 350,000 engineers in 150 countries focused on developing technical standards, affecting technology policy, promoting career development and creating communities of networked technical professionals.

At Stanford, the organization provides access to peers, more advanced students, professors and industry engineers to foster a more complete engineering education experience in and out of the classroom. Stanford IEEE sponsors programming and electronic design competitions, community service, mentorship, research, scholarship grants, as well as ECJ, Stanford's first technical student research journal. Please visit the IEEE website at http://ieee.stanford.edu for more information.

BASES (Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students)

BASES is the primary extra-curricular vehicle for students who are interested in technology and entrepreneurship. It seeks to build the next generation of entrepreneurs. BASES has evolved to include undergraduate and graduate students along with faculty members from all schools at Stanford, including Engineering, Business, Law, Medicine, Humanities and Science. It hosts a collection of programs on campus, including an annual business plan competition, a weekly lecture series with talks by technology and business leaders, a start-up job fair, a research showcase, and many networking activities. For more information about BASES, visit their website at http://bases.stanford.edu.

Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal

In September of 2001, the Stanford Undergraduate Research Journal (SURJ) was created as a forum for undergraduates to share their research with the entire Stanford community. Today, SURJ is an established force on campus promoting intellectual curiosity and multi-disciplinary literacy. With an annual publication that accepts around 10% of original research submissions through the peer-review process, SURJ is Stanford's first and only academic journal that features all disciplines, including Natural Sciences & Engineering, Humanities, and Social Sciences.

Interested authors should join surj-infoline@lists.stanford.edu and have an original research manuscript ready by Winter Quarter. Staff and editor positions are also available if you wish to participate in the peer-review process as part of the Editorial Board, help develop the financial platform for sustaining a major publication, or join the design team that creates the look and feel of the Journal. For more information about how to join or contribute research to SURJ, and to view past editions of the Journal, please visit our website at http://surj.stanford.edu.

Technology Assist by Students

Blending technology with community service, Technology Assist by Students (TABS) encourages the socially conscious side of engineering and other tech-savvy students. TABS provides free computer and information technology consulting for Bay Area non-profit organizations and schools. In Autumn 2002, TABS launched an internship program through which students have the opportunity to design and create technologies that can dramatically improve the workflow and administrative efficiency of local nonprofit organizations. Interns work on projects that range from networking to graphic design, tech support to website development, desktop publishing to database-driven web applications. Through TABS, students apply their technical skills toward volunteerism and know that their work truly makes a difference. Visit http://tabs.stanford.edu to find out how you can join TABS or apply for an internship position.