The School of Engineering community shares their best wishes with the Engineering graduates, class of 2021!

Pi Tau Sigma

Pi Tau Sigma, the national mechanical engineering honor society, was founded in 1915 at the University of Illinois. The Santa Clara University Alpha Epsilon chapter was granted its charter in 1991. The society’s objectives are to foster high ideals in the engineering profession, stimulate and support departmental activities, promote professional welfare, and develop leadership and citizenship. Members are selected from the top 25 percent of the junior class and top 33 percent of the senior class in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Advisor: On Shun Pak
Assistant Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Upsilon Pi Epsilon

Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines, was founded at Texas A&M University in 1967. The Santa Clara Lambda chapter was established in 1990. Its purpose is to promote high scholarship and original investigation in the computing sciences. Students must be majors in a computing discipline. Undergraduates must possess a 3.25 GPA overall and in the major, have completed at least 64 units of credit, and rank in the upper third of their class.

Advisor: Darren Atkinson
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering

Tau Beta Pi

Tau Beta Pi is the only engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession. It is the nation's second-oldest honor society, founded at Lehigh University in 1885 to mark in a fitting manner those who have conferred honor upon their Alma Mater by distinguished scholarship and exemplary character as students in engineering, or by their attainments as alumni in the field of engineering, and to foster a spirit of liberal culture in engineering colleges. The Santa Clara chapter was established in 1956.  Engineering seniors in the upper 20 percent of their class are eligible. These students have demonstrated exemplary character, personal integrity, breadth of interest, adaptability, and unselfish activity.

Advisors: Drazen Fabris
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering

University Honors Program

The University Honors Program provides Santa Clara’s most able students with intellectual opportunities through small, seminar-style classes. The course of study combines broad-based learning with depth of specialization in a major field. Honors Program classes are designed to fit within the curricula of the humanities, natural and social sciences, business, and engineering. Possible majors include every undergraduate field in the University.

Director: Naomi Andrews
Associate Professor of History