Student Organizations
On campus and beyond, opportunities abound for engineering students to explore their passions.
Student Organizations
On campus and beyond, opportunities abound for engineering students to explore their passions.
Project Based Groups and Teams
Alternative Protein Project
The Alt Protein Project is committed to advancing knowledge and fostering dialogue around alternative proteins and sustainable food systems.
Brown Rocketry
Brown Rocketry is a club dedicated to fostering interest in rocketry as a hobby and career among students. We utilize model rocket kits as well as design our own parts to construct high-powered rockets giving students a fun hands-on experience and a chance to practice fundamental components of the design process.
Brown Space Engineering
The Brown Space Engineering Team (BSE) aims to make space accessible to people of all backgrounds. The team creates a baseline design for future projects, and all designs and procedures are open source. They strive to inspire future generation to explore space.
Scientists for a Sustainable World
Scientists for a Sustainable World (SSW) provides a platform for students with concrete ideas for energy, water, and waste reduction at Brown and in the community. Students engage with partners at Facilities, and are able to pinpoint and address problems. Initiatives include bringing photovoltaic solar power to buildings, identifying and reducing excess energy use in dorms, and ensuring energy efficiency is a priority in technology purchasing on campus.
Women Build@Brown
The purpose of WBB shall be to create a space/community for non-male identifying students to learn about and become comfortable with operating power tools, machines, and other crafting accessories. WBB will create a welcoming environment for all members with the understanding that workshops are often male-dominated environments making it less accessible for women to enter these spaces and learn to use tools. WBB aims to inspire its members to design, craft, and build independent projects in a learning community where women help each other pursue new skills.
Professional Organizations and Societies
American Institute of Chemical Engineers
AIChE is the world’s leading organization for chemical engineering professionals, with over 40,000 members from over 90 countries. AIChE has the breadth of resources and expertise in core process industries and emerging areas, including nanobiotechnology. The Brown AIChE chapter sponsors students to attend the annual AIChE national conference. The Brown chapter also organizes an annual liquid nitrogen ice cream event.
Biomedical Engineering Board
The Biomedical Engineering Board (BMEB) was established by students to facilitate student-faculty and student-program cohesion by increasing graduate student representation in program decisions and creating opportunities to solicit and implement iterative feedback.
Engineers without Borders
Engineers Without Borders student aims to build a more sustainable world through engineering projects as part of the larger student organization, Doctors & Engineers Without Borders. The organization facilitates partnerships between communities in need, both domestically and internationally, and student/professional chapters to help find solutions to their pressing issues.
Graduate Engineering Council
The Graduate Engineering Council Group recognizes the special needs of students at the engineering department. Our group aims to create a supportive and inclusive community for the students by addressing the need for a platform where engineering students can connect, collaborate, and thrive together. By fostering a sense of belonging and camaraderie, we aim to enhance the overall graduate student experience in the engineering department.
Graduate Students of Color in STEM
GSOCnSTEM builds a community of graduate students of color in STEM by creating workshops, social gatherings, and much more. We hope to increase interaction between faculty and students of color in STEM by facilitating networking events with faculty and students in physical science departments. We also encourage a pipeline for underrepresented groups in STEM to increase their representation by having Colors of STEM series as well as engaging with our community.
Latinx Graduate Collective
To increase awareness and engagement within the broader community beyond the campus, possibly through outreach programs with local organizations. To develop support networks among faculty members and students to foster professional growth networking, and encouragement to navigate Brown as a person with Latinx background. To be recognized as a “safe space” for Latinx graduate students.
National Society of Black Engineers
NSBE is a student-run organization that works to raise awareness of careers in engineering among minority students and increase the number of minority engineers. NSBE has 270 college chapters, alumni and pre-college chapters. Brown's chapter works closely with other science-related student societies and programs to promote engineering among under-represented groups and engages in engineering outreach in local schools.
Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers
The Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers is committed to: prepare Asian heritage scientists and engineers for success in the global business world, celebrate diversity on campuses and in the workplace, and provide opportunities for members to make contributions to their local communities. SASE focuses on developing the leaders of tomorrow by hosting a myriad of professional development events for students to build crucial soft skills that they can utilize to succeed in their future careers.These events include conferences, panels, networking nights, company tours, resume workshops, and more.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
SHPE is the leading national organization aimed at motivating Hispanics to pursue careers in STEM. SHPE has a strong but independent network of over 400 professional and student chapters and over 10,000 members. SHPE's mission is to change lives by empowering the Hispanic community to realize its fullest potential and to impact the world through STEM awareness, access, support and development.
Society of Women Engineers
SWE aims is to support and empower female engineers while making the field of engineering more desirable to women. Brown's chapter serves to increase community between female engineers at Brown and help prepare for their future. The chapter holds school-wide social events, study breaks, professional development and networking events. A popular event is the extreme gingerbread competition.
SoE Departmental Organizations
American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists
AAEES at Brown focuses on creating a community for students concentrating in Environmental Engineering or related fields. Their aim is to spread awareness about environmental engineering, discuss the range of opportunity in the field, and build upon existing knowledge and skill sets from the classroom by interacting with professionals and fellow students at local environmental engineering companies and other universities.
Brown Biomedical Engineering Society
BMES serves students and promotes biomedical engineering on campus. Through social activities, lab tours, and presentations by industry, BMES informs students concerning their academic and post-grad careers, facilitates faculty-students interactions, and builds a sense of community. BMES has sponsored trips to local companies and a trip to the national BME conference.
Continua Research Society
The CRS is a weekly meeting of engineering graduate students that allows participants to give research talks in a low stakes environment, often in preparation for conferences etc. Typically we provide food weekly.
ENGN DUG
EngnDug is a group of Engineering concentrators who seek to create a sense of community and promote the diversity of the undergraduate community. DUGs help students make and strengthen connections with other concentrators and professors; provide a means for first- and second-year students to explore various concentrations; and enable concentrators to explore potential career opportunities related to their disciplines.
Formula Society of Automotive Engineers
Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE), is a class of formula car governed by the Society of Automotive Engineers. The cars are open-wheeled, with a maximum displacement of 610 cc, a minimum wheelbase of 60 in, and a mandatory 20-mm intake restrictor. Brown competes annually in the international competition held in Michigan.
Sigma Xi
Sigma Xi, founded in 1886, is the honor society of research scientists and engineers. Sigma Xi offers opportunities for undergrad and graduate students to share their research with professional scientists and engineers. Membership is by invitation, those who have shown potential as researchers are invited to join as associate members. Full membership is conferred upon those who have demonstrated noteworthy achievements.
Tau Beta Pi
TBP, founded in 1885, is the nation's second-oldest honor society and the only one to represent the entire engineering profession. TBP's mission is to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as students, or by their attainments as alumni in the field of engineering, and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges.
Women in Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Network
The Women in Engineering Graduate and Postdoctoral Network (WEGPN) is a new organization dedicated to supporting and empowering women pursuing advanced degrees and research in engineering.