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Institute of Industrial Engineers

The Institute of Industrial Engineers @ UT is an organization governed by the students within the Industrial and Information Engineering department. Its main focus is to provide students with outside resources regarding their future professional careers. Also, it is a way in which Industrial Engineering students can get to know one another better outside of the classroom. The highlight of the IIE year is the Regional Conference held each year. Historically, participation each year has been excellent. Visit IIE's national site.

Alpha Pi Mu

Alpha Pi Mu was the brainchild of James T. French who in 1949 was a senior industrial engineering student at Georgia Tech. Nine men chosen through their affiliation with the Georgia Tech Chapter of Tau Beta Pi constituted the original membership of Alpha Pi Mu. Alpha Pi Mu is the only nationally accepted industrial engineering honor society. The Georgia Tech engineers who led the initial developmental work wanted an organization to provide a common ground on which their outstanding young engineers could exchange ideas, and to provide experiences that could help their future professional development.

The goals are stated by Alpha Pi Mu as follows

  1. To confer recognition upon the industrial engineering student who has shown exceptional academic interests and abilities in his field.
  2. To encourage wherever possible any movement which will advance the best interest of industrial engineering education.
  3. To further unify the student body of the Industrial and Information Engineering Department in presenting its needs and ideals to the faculty.
  4. To create a closer student-faculty relationship by bringing together the needs and thoughts of both.
  5. To assist and cooperate with all organizations and persons working for the interest of industrial engineering.
  6. To benefit its members by the association and experience that can come from bringing together a group with similar interests, objectives, and abilities and to promote the professional welfare of all.