Student Organizations

ACM brings together computing educators, researchers, and professionals to inspire dialogue, share resources, and address the field's challenges. As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice through strong leadership, promotion of the highest standards, and recognition of technical excellence. ACM supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life‐long learning, career development, and professional networking.

Founded at the dawn of the computer age, ACM’s reach extends to every part of the globe, with more than half of its 100,000 members residing outside the U.S. Its growing membership has led to Councils in Europe, India, and China, fostering networking opportunities that strengthen ties within and across countries and technical communities. Their actions enhance ACM’s ability to raise awareness of computing’s important technical, educational, and social issues around the world.

ACM-W supports, celebrates, and advocates internationally for the full engagement of women in all aspects of the computing field, providing a wide range of programs and services to ACM members and working in the larger community to advance the contributions of technical women.

The Society of Civil Engineers sole purpose is to promote involvement in the field of Civil Engineering on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley campus by hosting events in which members can learn more about the field, providing a forum in which all members can learn and share their knowledge on various fields that revolve around civil engineering, and engaging in competitive events that will allow the members to gain hands on experience in the field.

ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward the 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 130,000 members (32,000 of which are students) in 151 countries.

From college students and early-career engineers to project managers, corporate executives, researchers, and academic leaders, ASME's members are as diverse as the engineering community itself. ASME serves this wide-ranging technical community through quality programs in continuing education, training and professional development, codes and standards, research, conferences and publications, government relations, and other forms of outreach.

Frontera Devs is an award-winning organization dedicated to making computer science education equitable across the Rio Grande Valley. We're a developer-first organization that organizes hands-on workshops to teach industry resources and helps guide early career devs through the process of defining their careers since 2019.

Hack&&Make serves to promote the attendance of hackathons as well as maker culture. Hackathons, a combination of “hack” and “marathon,” are a category of events where a small team of students is given a time frame (often 24 hours) to create a software or hardware project from scratch. Maker culture is the technology-centric extension of do-it-yourself culture.

Our focus is on providing a collaborative environment for teams of students to create their own projects either at events or on their own. We will achieve this primarily through the attendance and organization of hackathons, workshops to prepare students to work in a team environment, and presentations of student projects throughout the academic year.

IEEE is the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. IEEE and its members inspire a global community to innovate for a better tomorrow through its highly cited publications, conferences, technology standards, and professional and educational activities. IEEE is the trusted “voice” for engineering, computing, and technology information around the globe.

There are more than 430,000 IEEE members in more than 160 countries. The IEEE publishes a third of the world’s technical literature in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics and is a leading developer of international standards that underpin many of today's telecommunications, information technology, and power generation products and services.

MAES was founded in Los Angeles in 1974 to increase the number of Mexican Americans and other Hispanics in the technical and scientific fields. The idea to establish a professional society for Mexican American engineers originated with Robert Von Hatten, an aerospace electronics engineer with TRW Defense Space Systems in Redondo Beach, California. Mr. Von Hatten had for several years served as a volunteer for programs directed at combating the alarming number of high school dropouts. He envisioned a national organization that would serve as a source of role models, address the needs of its members, and become a resource for industry and students.

The Rocket Launchers are making the Rio Grande Valley and UTRGV known by competing in IREC, a competition where students, rocket hobbyists, and the biggest companies in the aerospace industry gather to witness rocket clubs from all over the world launch their high-powered rockets.

As the leader in advancing mobility engineering, the Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE International is indisputably one of the most valuable resources in our industry. Engineering icons like Henry Ford and Orville Wright helped to build the foundation for the robust programs SAE International offers today—programs that are constantly evolving to anticipate the needs of today's and tomorrow's engineers.

The Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) was founded in Los Angeles, California, in 1974 by a group of engineers employed by the city of Los Angeles. Their objective was to form a national organization of professional engineers to serve as role models in the Hispanic community.

The concept of networking was the key basis for the organization. SHPE quickly established two student chapters to begin the network that would grow to encompass the nation as well as reach countries outside the United States. Today, SHPE enjoys a strong but independent network of professional and student chapters throughout the nation.

Through its many programs and activities, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) connects manufacturing practitioners to each other, to the latest technology and the most up-to-date processes spanning all manufacturing industries and disciplines, plus the key areas of aerospace and defense, medical device, motor vehicles, including motorsports, oil and gas, and alternative energy.

For more than six decades, the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has given women engineers a unique place and voice within the engineering industry. Our organization is centered around a passion for our members' success and continues to evolve with the challenges and opportunities reflected in today's exciting engineering and technology specialties.

We invite you to explore the values, principles, and priorities that guide our initiatives and learn how together, We can continue to make a lasting impact on the future.