ACM established Student Chapters to provide an opportunity for students to play a more active role in the Association and its professional activities. Today, more than 500 colleges and universities throughout the world participate in the ACM Student Chapter Program, whose aims are to enhance learning through exchange of ideas among students, and between established professionals and students. The ACM Lectureship Program is one activity designed specifically to promote contact between students and computing professionals.
An annual highpoint of interest and excitement for students is the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest held in conjunction with Computing Week and ACM's prestigious Computer Science Conference. Three-person teams of students from all over the world engage in regional competitions during the year; the winners qualify for the thrilling final tournament. A virtual play-by-play account of the recent contest appeared on page one of the Wall Street Journal. In order to continue developing activities beneficial to our student membership, ACM created a Presidential Committee whose mission is to define and develop future student programs.
The ACM Student Chapter at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ has been very instrumental in helping not only to spread technical information, but to spread the spirit of excellence needed to be successful in a technical field. In order to continue with this standard we have several goals we want to accomplish:
Computer Science is a relatively young discipline. Yet despite its comparative youth, Computer Science has had an unparalleled effect on almost every aspect of contemporary life. Indeed it is difficult to predict the ultimate place of the computer in our world. It is the express purpose of Upsilon Pi Epsilon to promoteÌý Computer Science and to encourage its contribution to the enhancement of knowledge.
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) was first organized at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, in 1967. The international organization now consists of chapters in various colleges and universities in North America and overseas.
The mission of Upsilon Pi Epsilon is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Computing and Information Disciplines.
The Association will accomplish this mission through programs that:
Upsilon Pi Epsilon is an honorary society whose membership consists of outstanding undergraduate and graduate students in Computing and Information Disciplines. Only schools that offer a degree in a computing science-related discipline may be chartered. Likewise, prospective student members must be working toward a degree in Computing and Information Disciplines at the time they are considered for membership. Yet members are chosen not only for their scholastic achievement in a computing science program, but also for distinguishing themselves as true professionals by meeting the standards of the society. Membership is limited to those who can effectively achieve the original goals of the society. These goals include:
Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the first and only, existing international honor society in the Computing and Information Disciplines. It has received endorsements from the two largest computer organizations in the world, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS).
UPE is a member of the Association of College Honor Societies (ACHS).
In the summer of 1998, three students on the campus of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ, believed in the idea to establish an organization in conjunction with the ACM student chapter to honor those students who excelled in the field of computing sciences.
On October 21, 1998, the Grand Chapter of UPE granted the charter to be installed at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ and on December 5, 1998, the charter for the Zeta Chapter of Al was established, in taking fourteen (14) new members on the campus of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ. Accepting the charter was the founding president, Ms. Donna Williams.
Our Mission of the Zeta Chapter of AL is in sync with the common goals of the Grand Chapter and other chapters, which is to :
In addition, the Chapter of ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ strives to: