The University of Kansas School of Engineering is host to over 30 different student organizations, professional societies and honor societies. Mechanical Engineering students and faculty belong to many of these. The following groups allow students and faculty from various social and professional backgrounds to come together and share ideas, learn from one another's experience and most importantly, have fun together.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Faculty Advisor: Dr.
Elizabeth A. Friis
Phone: 864-2104
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) promotes and enhances the technical competency and professional well being of its members and strives, through quality programs and activities in mechanical engineering, to better enable its practitioners to contribute to the well-being of humankind. Student activities include participation in annual activities, such as the ASME Student Leadership Conference, the Human-Powered Vehicle competition, the annual KU Engineering Expo, and tours of local engineering/manufacturing plants.
Officers are listed on the following website:
Visit the KU ASME Chapter Home Page
Visit the National ASME Home Page
Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
Faculty Advisor: Dr.
Sara Wilson and Dr. Michael Detamore
Phone: 864-2103
The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) is an engineering society dedicated to the application of engineering principles to medicine and biology. The society strives to encourage professional growth of its members through annual conferences, publications and career services, and to promote the biomedical engineering field. Past student activities have included tours of regional medical and industrial workplaces, career planning sessions, and seminars with practicing biomedical engineers.
Officers are listed on the following website:
Visit the National BMES
Home Page
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Faculty Advisor: Dr.
Robert M. Sorem
Phone: 864-2983
The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) is an engineering society of over 60,000 members from all engineering and scientific disciplines who are dedicated to advancing mobility. Through SAE, these engineers and scientists work together to further the research, development, design, manufacture and utilization of land, sea, air and space vehicles.
The KU SAE chapter has participated in the several of the SAE collegiate design competitions including the Formula SAE competition, Mini-Baja competition, Heavy-lifter competition, and the Supermileage competition.
Officers are listed on the following website:
Visit the Jayhawk Motorsports Home
Page
Visit the International SAE Home Page
Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering Honor Society)
Faculty Advisor: Dr.
Carl W. Luchies
Phone: 864-2993
Pi Tau Sigma is the national honorary mechanical engineering society. Membership is one of the ways our students, both men and women, can be recognized for their scholastic achievement. Members are selected from the junior and senior classes on the basis of sound engineering ability, scholarship, and personal character.
Requirements for membership, membership benefits,
and officers are located at the following website:
Visit
the KU Pi Tau Sigma Home Page
Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honor Society)
Faculty Advisor: Mario
A. Medina and Lorin Maletsky
Phone: 864-3604
Tau Beta Pi is the second oldest honor society in the nation. It is the only engineering honor society that represents the entire engineering profession. Tau Beta Pi was founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to recognize outstanding students with exemplary character and distinguished scholarship.
Officers are listed at the website below:
Visit the KU Tau Beta Pi Chapter Home Page
Visit the National Tau Beta Pi Home Page
