Texas A&M Chi Epsilon

What is Chi Epsilon and How are Members Selected?

Chi Epsilon is the National Civil Engineering Honor Society which was founded in 1922 to recognize and honor civil engineering students and professionals. There are now 130 active chapters at universities across the United States. It is widely recognized in the profession and has initiated over 108,000 members.

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Chi Epsilon’s Purpose​

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.

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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.

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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.