| AAEES | American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists |
| AIChE | American Institute of Chemical Engineers |
| ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| BDW | Brown Design Workshop |
| BEAM | Brown Engineering Alumni Medal |
| B&H | Barus & Holley |
| BME | Biomedical Engineering |
| BMES | Biomedical Engineering Society |
| BRUNOS | Brown University Optics Society |
| BSE | Brown Space Engineering |
| CAB | Corporate Advisory Board |
| ChemE | Chemical Engineering |
| DECES | Data-Enabled Computational Engineering and Science |
| EAC | Engineering Advisory Committee |
| EE | Electrical Engineering |
| ERC | Engineering Research Center |
| FSAE | Formula Society of Automotive Engineers; car team |
| FTS | Fluids and Thermal Sciences |
| GSOCnSTEM | Graduate Students of Color in STEM |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| IMNI | Instrumentation for Molecular and Nanoscale Innovation |
| JEPIS | Joint Engineering Physics Instrument Shop |
| MADE | Master of Art in Design Engineering |
| MechE | Mechanical Engineering |
| MRS | Materials Research Society |
| MTL | Masters in Technology Leadership |
| NAE | National Academy of Engineering |
| NSBE | National Society of Black Engineers |
| o-STEM | Out in STEM |
| PRIME | Program in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship |
| SASE | Society of Asian Scientists |
| SHPE | Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers |
| SoE | School of Engineering |
| SSW | Scientists for a Sustainable World |
| SWE | Society of Women Engineers |
| TBP | Tau Beta Pi, Engineering honor society |
| WiSE/GWiSE |
Women in Science and Engineering, Graduate Women in Science and Engineering |