Clubs and organizations
Student clubs are integral to the College of Engineering. These student-led groups organize campus events; coordinate professional activities such as arranging speaking engagements; and develop outreach activities.
Club participation is a way to build your resume, network with local engineering professionals and faculty, and impact the College. Clubs are actively involved in engineering social events such as E-Week, and they also sponsor the College's award-winning competition teams.
Browse our student clubs and get involved in the groups that interest you.
If you need to add or update a listing, please use our student club form.
For club meetings and events, see Engineering Clubs and Organizations on WebCampus.
The American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) is a pre-professional student organization that prepares students for their careers as chemical engineers by connecting them with the professional world. Once a member of our local chapter, students can become national members, granting them access to the AIChE eLibrary and exclusive scholarship opportunities. Regional and national conferences serve as platforms for a variety of competitions including Chem-E-Car and Jeopardy along with a multitude of workshops and networking events. Our chapter actively engages in tours, fundraisers, public outreach, and community-building social events. For paying club dues, members receive priority on all events and an awesome T-shirt!
Faculty advisor: Chemical & Materials Engineering instructor Mike Kivistik
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is a professional society centered around aerospace engineering and promoting the field. Members can participate in multiple national conferences per year and have the opportunity for individual and group research to be funded. Members also have access to all of AIAA's national journals, competitions, and scholarship opportunities.
Contact: aiaaunr@gmail.com
The American Nuclear Society (ANS) is an international professional organization with the mission to advance, foster, and spur the development an application of nuclear science, engineering, and technology to benefit society. The University of Nevada, Reno student chapter provides students with professional development opportunities, interesting expert speakers from a variety areas of nuclear science, outreach opportunities, and camaraderie with other students interested in nuclear science and technology.
Contact the student chapter of the American Nuclear Society.
Faculty advisor: Chemical & Materials Engineering Assistant Professor Jeremy Moon
The American Society for Civil Engineers (ASCE) is a bridge between the students at the University of Nevada, Reno and professionals in the community. We have plenty of networking events, socials, and workshops to help you in your professional and academic career.
ASCE - University of Nevada, Reno chapter website
Contact the ASCE student chapter.
Faculty advisor: Engineering Lecturer Kelly Keselica
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods. Founded in 1880 by a small group of leading industrialists, ASME has grown through the decades to include more than 100,000 members in 140+ countries. Thirty-two thousand of these members are students.
Contact the ASME student chapter.
Faculty advisor: Teaching Assistant Professor Daichi Fujioka
The Biomedical Engineering Society is dedicated to introducing all students, regardless of their major or background, with the STEM field. A majority of the current members are either biomedical or chemical engineering students, and that is why we are inviting all of you to consider joining the team. There is no fee to join, we only meet about once every couple of weeks, and we would love for you to come explore science and engineering with us!
Biomedical Engineering Society website
Contact the Biomedical Engineering Society
Faculty advisor: Associate Professor Josette El Zaklit
Concrete Canoe is designed to teach innovative problem solving with a exceedingly difficult task - designing and building a boat out of concrete. The final competition grades each team on the aesthetics of their boat, a technical design report, an oral presentation and five races in the canoe.
Concrete Canoe at the University of Nevada, Reno website
Contact the Concrete Canoe team
Faculty advisor: Engineering Lecturer Kelly Keselica
The student chapter of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) promotes earthquake engineering knowledge through technical seminars and gatherings with industry professionals. Our group participates in EERI events such as the Seismic Design Competition (SDC) and engages in community outreach activities.
EERI Student Chapter at the University of Nevada, Reno website
Contact the EERI Student Chapter
Faculty advisor: Associate Professor Floriana Petrone
GeoWall designs, builds, and tests a mechanically stabilized earth retaining structure that must hold back 500 pounds of sand using only paper. We take our designs and sandbox to compete annually at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Mid-Pacific Conference against other universities.
Faculty advisor: Engineering Lecturer Kelly Keselica
Welcome to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)! We can provide you with opportunities for technical, social and professional development through our skills workshops and industry tours and by connecting you with other engineers. This club is open not just to electrical engineers, but to anyone in engineering, especially mechanical engineering; computer science and engineering; and biomedical engineering.
Contact the student chapter of IEEE.
Faculty advisor: Assistant Professor Mahdi Mehrtash
The Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) is an international membership association of transportation professionals who work to improve mobility and safety for all transportation system users and to help build smart and livable communities. The ITE currently has 11 districts, and the ITE University of Nevada, Reno student chapter is one of 14 student chapters in the mountain district. The goal of our chapter is to expose student members to the exciting world of transportation and provide them with professional development and career advancement.
Contact the student chapter of ITE.
Faculty advisor: Professor Zong Tian
We are a professional, on-campus club that aims to get students interested in materials. It doesn't matter what your major is: materials are in everything! Our chapter is a part of the national organization known as Material Advantage, which helps students connect with professionals in the field, guest speakers, seminars, conferences and social events.
This student program is supported by preeminent societies in the materials science and engineering profession: the American Ceramic Society (ACerS); Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST); ASM International (the Materials Information Society); and the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS).
Our objective is to teach cyber skills to students and provide community outreach that will connect members to jobs in the field of cybersecurity (and cyber topics in general) upon graduation. As a club, we are dedicated to conducting research that will help to make advancements in policy and serve to better inform our community and the cyber world at large.
Contact the Nevada Cyber Club.
Faculty advisor: Professor Shamik Sengupta
Competition coach: Bill Doherty, adjunct faculty
Our mechanical engineering club designs, manufactures and builds and off-road racing vehicles to compete in SAE Baja, a program of SAE International, a global association of volunteers and technical experts in the aerospace, automotive and commercial vehicle industries.
Contact Nevada Wolf Pack Racing.
Faculty advisor: Associate Professor Floris van Breugel
Phi Sigma Rho is a social sorority for women in technical studies serving members and the community by promoting high standards of personal integrity, respect, and character; lifelong bonds of sisterhood; and academic and professional excellence with a social balance through shared experiences, common bonds, and recognition of service and achievement.
Joining Phi Sigma Rho will be one of the greatest decisions of your college career! We have recruitment during the fall and spring each year and would love to connect with you!
Phi Sigma Rho - University of Nevada, Reno chapter website
Faculty advisor: Teaching Associate Professor Ann-Marie Vollstedt
Our mission is to strive to create better engineers through commitment to academic excellence and dedication to service. Pi Tau Sigma prides itself in the core values: Integrity (soundness of character and moral conduct), Service (serving the mechanical engineering profession and the community), and Leadership (fostering initiative through example in a professional manner).
Faculty advisor: Teaching Assistant Professor Daichi Fujioka
The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is a nonprofit organization that changes lives by empowering the Hispanic community to realize its fullest potential and to impact the world through STEM awareness, access, support, and development. The University of Nevada, Reno chapter focuses on building community on campus, career readiness, networking and outreach.
Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers - University of Nevada, Reno chapter website
Contact the student chapter of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
Faculty advisor: Professor Victor Vasquez
Society of Women Engineers is a nonprofit organization that aims to reach out to women and help them pursue a career in engineering. Our local chapter does community outreach with local high schools, attends club fairs at the university, and organizes networking and professional development events such as evening with industry or how to make an effective business card meetings. We have also done professional panels in which we bring engineers from various companies in to talk about their experiences in engineering, and answer any questions that students may have. We're a group of girls with a passion for engineering, and a desire to share that passion with other male and female students.
Contact the student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.
Faculty advisor: Associate Dean and Electrical & Biomedical Engineering Foundation Professor Indira Chatterjee
Each year, a small group of students design and construct a bridge of steel material in regards to a set of specifications created by the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Institute of Steel Construction. The rules come out in the fall, and by spring a bridge must be constructed and ready to be loaded. The bridge is then judged based on display, construction speed, lightness, stiffness, construction economy, structural efficiency, and overall performance.
Contact the University's steel bridge team.
Faculty advisor: Engineering Lecturer Kelly Keselica
The Student Maker Association aims to teach others about maker culture through a variety of student projects and hands-on activities, including 3D printing, crafting, cosplay, robotics, woodworking, electronics, programming and 3D modeling. Whether you are a seasoned maker or a curious beginner, join us to bring your ideas to life, discover, create and grow!
Contact the Student Maker Association.
Faculty advisor: Brian Nagy, Mechanical Engineering Development Technician
The UNR Aerospace Club was founded on the love and passion for aviation and aerospace.
Contact the UNR Aerospace Club.
Faculty advisor: Assistant Professor Aditya Nair
Water treatment team is a club that focuses on... you guessed it, treating water! Although it is mostly environmental engineering concepts, all majors are welcome in the lab as we take dirty, contaminated water and try to make it clean using physical and chemical processes. We participate in the Mid-Pacific Conference through the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) once a year and compete against other schools where we design and build a water filtration system.
Contact the water treatment team.
Faculty advisor: Professor Eric Marchand