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A Civil Engineering Honors Fraternity

___ President: Alberto Lao (agl5020@psu.edu)
___ Vice President: Mike Race (mdr5055@psu.edu)
___ Treasurer: Samantha Linder (sel5080@psu.edu)
___ Secretary: Matt Lumadue (mrl5071@psu.edu)
___ Transit Editor: Anthony Carta (ajc352@psu.edu)
___ Marshal: David Breindel (dab5123@psu.edu)
___ Faculty Adviser: Dr. Patrick Reed (preed@engr.psu.edu)

2009-2010 Update:
The Penn State chapter of the Chi Epsilon Honor Society for Civil Engineers seeks to honor academic excellence for CE students that rank in the top third of their junior or senior classes. Dedicated to the purpose of maintaining and promoting the status of civil engineering as an ideal profession, Chi-Epsilon was organized to recognize the characteristics of the individual civil engineer deemed to be fundamental to the successful pursuit of an engineering career, and to aid in the development of those characteristics in the civil engineering student.

Engineering, the application of scientific principles to the practical needs of society, is assuming a constantly increasing responsibility for the well-being of all people, and thus calling for competence of the highest order. This responsibility can be discharged only by a professional group whose members possess a good basic technical ability, intelligence, moral integrity, and effective social poise in their relationship with the community of which they are a part. These responsibilities are broken down into four personal qualities: scholarship, character, practicality and sociability. To contribute to improving the profession, Chi-Epsilon fosters the development and exercise of sound traits of character and technical ability among civil engineers, and its members, by precept and example, toward an ever higher standard of professional service._

Each year, Junior and Senior Civil Engineering students who rank in the top third of their respective classes are invited to join the Chi Epsilon Honor Society. If they accept, they must then demonstrate the other personal qualities that Chi Epsilon hinges on before they are officially initiated into the exclusive honor society.

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