Introduction
Let us acquaint you with the Eta Kappa Nu Association. It is the International Honor Society for Electrical Engineers. A Chapter or Eta Branch of Eta Kappa Nu has been established at your College, Company or City and at approximately 200 other locations in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Outstanding persons are elected to Eta Kappa Nu primarily from the junior and senior classes of accredited undergraduate programs. Graduate Students and distinguished professional engineers are also eligible. Eligibility, naturally, must depend on marked ability, as evidenced by scholarship, personal character, useful voluntary services and distinguished accomplishments, all of which indicate that the candidate will be or is a success in his profession. For undergraduate students, eligibility must depend largely on the records established during the first two or three years in college.
Purpose of Eta Kappa Nu
While one of its purposes certainly is the stimulation and reward of scholarship, Eta Kappa Nu has a far broader purpose than merely to award a badge of distinction to scholars. As conceived by its founders and as carried forward by its membership during more than two generations, another aim is to assist its members throughout their lives in becoming better professionals as well as better citizens. In turn, it is still another purpose of the organization, that its members and non-members alike to improve the standards of the profession, the courses of instruction, and the institutions generally where its chapters are established.
Growth of Eta Kappa Nu
Eta Kappa Nu had grown steadily since its establishment at the University
of Illinois in 1904. In the first ten years, ten chapters were formed.
In the first fifty years, 56 chapters were in existence. In 1983 there
were approximately 200 chapters including branches of Eta in five foreign
countries and numerous Alumni Chapters in various cities and
corporations.
Eta Kappa Nu continues to grow and to influence the progress of the
electrical engineering profession through its high ideals about
scholarship, character and service to fellow man.
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