Whether it be networking to create business contacts, engaging in competitions or inspiring Purdue University students to help others, the student groups active in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering are organizations students can be proud to join.

Purdue ASCE

The Purdue University Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) provides Purdue civil engineering students with a network of peers and mentors committed to developing leadership skills, learning outside of the classroom, serving the community and promoting the profession as a whole.

Every year, university student ASCE organizations around the nation compete in events such as the concrete canoe, seismic design and steel bridge competitions. Purdue ASCE also hosts its own event on campus, the annual bridge bust, in which hundreds of high school students from the Midwest come to Purdue to test the carrying capacity of their balsa wood bridges.

Purdue CESAC

The Civil Engineering Student Advisory Council (CESAC) was founded to increase interaction between engineering students and faculty in the Lyles School. The organization builds partnerships between students, faculty, administrators, alumni and industry to continue pursuing Purdue Engineering’s excellence in education, research and service.

The biggest event CESAC hosts is its annual career fair — and it is one of the most attended engineering events at Purdue. Annually, more than 100 employers come to Purdue, all with full-time, internship and co-op positions ready to be filled.

Purdue CEGSAC

The Civil Engineering Graduate Student Advisory Council (CEGSAC) serves the same core mission as CESAC: to foster and maintain strong relationships with faculty and students — specifically, graduate students.

Events and activities headed by CEGSAC include charity fundraising for disaster relief, student-faculty social events and College of Engineering social events, all of which allow graduate students from various engineering programs to collaborate.

Chi Epsilon

Chi Epsilon, the national civil engineering honor society, is dedicated to maintaining and promoting the status of civil engineering as a profession. Chi Epsilon recognizes the characteristics of the ideal civil engineer, attributes fundamental to the successful pursuit of an engineering career. Members help one another develop those characteristics in themselves.

The organization’s objective is to contribute to the improvement of the profession, develop and exercise sound traits of character and technical ability among civil engineers and guide its members toward an ever-higher standard of professional service. Chi Epsilon’s public service work includes tutoring, providing school and program information and performing community service.

A full list of our student organizations can be found at https://bit.ly/ce-student-orgs