Omega Chi Epsilon Rating, Reviews and Requirements. Is it worth it?
Omega Chi Epsilon is the National Honor Society for Chemical Engineering. The Society promotes high scholarship, encourages original investigation in chemical engineering and recognizes the valuable traits of character, integrity and leadership.
What are the requirements to be in Omega Chi Epsilon?
- Active membership is limited to chemical engineering juniors, seniors, and graduate students.
- Juniors must have completed three hours of chemical engineering course work and be in the upper one-fourth of their class. Seniors must be in the upper one-third of their class.
- Graduate students must have completed nine hours of chemical engineering courses.
- All those elected must have traits and characteristics of leadership that make them likely to succeed as professional engineers.
What is the history of the Omega Chi Epsilon?
- Omega Chi Epsilon is an American honor society for chemical engineering students. The first chapter was formed at the University of Illinois in 1931. The second chapter was formed at the Iowa State University in 1932.
- By its tenth anniversary, another five chapters had been formed. Records for the thirtieth year (1960-61) show 105 persons initiated from 10 chapters. In its Golden Anniversary year, 1980-81, Omega Chi Epsilon received 705 members from 39 chapters.
- WCE has over 60 active university chapters and total membership of nearly 20,000 men and women.
What are the key benefits of being a member of Omega Chi Epsilon?
The variety of chapter activities suggests that recognition alone does not fulfill the aspirations of outstanding chemical engineering students today:
- Sponsor and arrange for alumni activities at homecoming
- Maintain a student lounge and library/reading room
- Sponsor student-faculty activities such as picnics or banquets
- Assemble chemical engineering graduate school information
- Provide tutorial services to chemical engineering students
- Administer outstanding student and teacher awards
- Assist a local philanthropy
Based on the information, here is our review:
Our first observation is: that the website doesn’t list much in terms of benefits. Other than networking and socializing, we couldn’t find any special perks that members receive.
Our second observation was: that this is a Chemical Engineering organization, meaning that members are most likely tight knit and in many of the same classes together, which only adds to the sense of community.
Our third observation was: that this society is fairly competitive. It’s hard to maintain high grades with such a challenging major, and even harder to hold yourself to a national GPA standard, so we commend these students.
