Get Involved
Many students enhance their academic career by becoming involved in student organizations or project teams in engineering or architecture. The number of student organizations for the College of Engineering alone is over 100, with 51 major related student organizations. This includes 14 honorary, 30 project teams, 21 diversity-related student organizations, 12 graduate and 65 professional student organizations.
Find a student organization:
College of Engineering student organizations:
The College of Engineering supports student organizations to encourage expanded extracurricular and academic experiences for students. To be recognized by the college the student organization must meet the following criteria:
- The purpose of the student organization must be engineering related (for this purpose included are: Food, Agriculture & Biological Engineering, Department of Physics and Knowlton School).
- Have at least one advisor or co-advisor that is faculty or staff in the College of Engineering (for this purpose included are: Food, Agriculture & Biological Engineering, Department of Physics and Knowlton School).
- Be recognized by The Ohio State University as a student organization by completing the requirements set forth by the Office of Student Life, including the annual officer training.
Established and new student organizations:
- Register your organizations with Engineers’ Council
- Resources for Student Organizations
- Student Organization Awards Nomination
- Student Organization Awards: Each spring, the College of Engineering, along with Engineers' Council, recognizes outstanding student organizations at the Annual Student Organization Awards event.
2024 winners:- 2024 Overall Outstanding Student Organization: Ohio State Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women in Computing (ACM-W)
- Outstanding Community or University Service Award: Society of Women Engineers at Ohio State
- Outstanding Partnership with Industry Award: Biomedical Engineering Society at Ohio State
- Diversity Inclusion Enhancement and Outreach Award: Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers at Ohio State
- Outstanding Outreach with K-12 Award: Code 4 Community at Ohio State
- Outstanding Student Organization Advisor Award: Assistant Professor Saeedeh Ziaeefard for her work with FIRST Alumni and Robotics at Ohio State
Previous winners: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016 and 2015.
Questions? Contact Winnie Sampson at [email protected].
