OTHER ORGANIZATIONS
Besides the American Society of Civil Engineers, there are a handful of other Civil Engineering organizations on the UCLA campus. CalGeo and ITE are clubs specific to certain fields of civil engineering (geotechnical and transportational, respectively), while Chi Epsilon is the civil engineering honor society. Below is information on each organization and links to their websites and social media.
California Geotechnical Engineering Association
The California Geotechnical Engineering Association, also known as CalGeo, serves four main purposes: educating geotechnical professionals, advocating for geotechnical issues, expanding geotechnical opportunities and connecting the geotechnical industry. The UCLA chapter of CalGeo serves as a liaison between CalGeo and UCLA’s talented geotechnical engineers. Through field trips, speakers, and dinner meetings with CalGeo and the Geo-Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers (G-I of ASCE), we strive to expose our students to the world of geotechnical engineering and watch them succeed in it.
Many of our alumni are doing great things in life today. Last year’s graduates went into work with top geotechnical engineering firms, while many others are advancing their knowledge by going to graduate school at the nation’s premier programs.
Our club welcomes anyone with an interest in civil engineering, geotechnical engineering, geology, and engineering geology. If interested in attending our events please check out our website: www.calgeobruins.org or Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/uclacalgeo/. Hope to see you soon!
Other Civil Engineering Clubs on Campus
Student Organizations - Contact Information
Chi Epsilon President
Michael Tsai
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) student chapter at UCLA is a great resource for students to get hands on experience and exposure to the transportation industry as well as on-going projects that affect the transportation network of Los Angeles and beyond that scope. In this past academic school year, our board expanded from six members to fourteen and we reached our highest attendance of students and faculty in our rideshare-panel, which included companies like Uber and Sidecar. This year, we plan to provide more events that will better connect the students to the industry by hosting a local student-professional mixer and assisting in UCLA’s Civil Engineering career fairs.
Institute of Transportational Engineers
We are 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 civil engineering students.
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 who possess a good basic technical ability, intelligence, moral integrity, and effective social poise in their relationship with the larger community of which they are part.
To contribute to the improvement of 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.
Chi Epsilon
