Grants Search »

2011 Annual Meeting »

Social Responsibility »

Alpha Epsilon

Agricultural, Food, and Biological Engineering

Admitted to ACHS: 1968

Associate: 1968: Full membership: 1970

Founded at the University of Missouri, May 14, 1959

No of Active Chapters: 17

Total Membership: 6913

Publications:

PURPOSE: To promote the high ideals of the engineering profession, to give recognition to those agricultural and biological engineers who manifest worthy qualities of character, scholarship, and professional attainment, and to encourage and support such improvements in the agricultural and biological engineering profession that make it an instrument of greater service to mankind.

ELIGIBILITY: Membership shall be based on scholarship, leadership, and character. Active members shall be undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in agricultural and biological engineering. A senior must be in the upper third of the college class in which enrolled. A junior must be in the upper quarter of the college class in which enrolled. Graduate students must have completed seven semester hours of graduate course work with a minimum grade average of 3.25 on a 4.0 point scale, or have been eligible as an undergraduate.

MAJOR ACTIVITIES: Annual convention is held each year in conjunction with the International Meeting of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers.

OFFICIAL CONTACT: Joseph Purswell, P.O. Box 5367, Mississippi State, MS 39762

Tel: (662) 320-7480  Fax: (662) 320-7589

Email: jpurswell@msa-msstate.ars.usda.gov  Website: www.Alpha-Epsilon.org


Chapter List