Sister Chapters
Connecting International and American ChemE students
See the current list of sister student chapters.
Purpose
AIChE is rapidly expanding its student chapters around the globe. In order to help the chemical engineers of tomorrow get acquainted with different cultures and customs, AIChE is looking to help these students network with each other while still in school. The Sister Chapters program helps prepare our students for the increasingly global environment they will enter upon graduation.
Goals
- Increase international awareness of, connection to and involvement with AIChE.
- Build an ongoing relationship between International and American AIChE student chapters.
- Connect future chemical engineers from around the globe with AIChE.
- Provide insight into AIChE student chapters to other chemical engineering academic programs and fields of interest around the globe.
How to be a Sister Chapter
Resources
- Template on how to become a successful Sister Chapter. (DOC)
- Presentation by the University of Michigan chapter at the 2011 Annual Meeting. (PDF - grayscale) (Flash - color)
Participation Requirements
- Commitment of time on the part of each group to write, send pictures, and call/video conference on an ongoing basis, for a minimum period of one academic year.
- One point person from each group who will be in charge of cultivating this relationship, in addition to a functioning board of leadership from both groups (president, vice-president, treasurer, secretary).
- End of year evaluation.
Application
- Email Arjun Gopalratnam at arjug@aiche.org to hear more about the program and to submit your American student chapter for consideration.
- All new international chapters are automatically enrolled in the student chapter program.
Matching
- Chapters who apply for the program will be asked about their preferences for a matching chapter as well as any special skills their chapter brings to the program (fluency in another language, frequent visitors from or to another country, etc.).
- Sister Chapters matches are based on common interests and languages between American and International chapters.
List of Sister Chapters
| International Sister Chapter (City, Country) |
American Sister Chapter (City, State) |
| East China University of Science and Technology (Shanghai, China) |
Kansas State (Manhattan, Kansas) |
| Institute of Engineering and Fertilizer Research (Faisalabad, Pakistan) |
Penn State (State College, Pennsylvania) |
| King Faisal University (Hofuf, Saudi Arabia) |
University of Tulsa (Tulsa, Oklahoma) |
| Koç University (Istanbul, Turkey) |
University of California, Riverside (Riverside, California) |
| Kuwait University (Kuwait City, Kuwait) |
Texas A & M at Qatar (Doha, Qatar) |
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago, Chile) |
University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) |
| Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Valparaíso, Chile) |
Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, Illinois) |
| Technical University of Denmark (Copenhagen, Denmark) |
University of Iowa (Iowa City, Iowa) |
| Technologico de Monterrey (Monterrey, Mexico) |
University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland) |
| Texas A&M at Qatar (Doha, Qatar) |
Kuwait University (Kuwait City, Kuwait) |
| Universidad Central del Ecuador (Quito, Ecuador) |
Oregon State University (Corvallis, Oregon) |
| Universidad de Los Andes (Bogota, Colombia) |
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Michigan) |
| Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Honduras (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) |
Mississippi State University (Starkville, Mississippi) |
| Universidade Estadual de Maringá (Maringá, Brasil) |
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois) |
| Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (Cascavel, Brasil) |
Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey) |
| University of Cairo (Cairo, Egypt) |
University of California, Davis (Davis, California) |
| University of Cantabria (Cantabria, Spain) |
Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) |
| University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore (Lahore, Pakistan) |
University of Connecticut (Storrs, Connecticut) |
| Unassigned | Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) |
| Unassigned | University of Illinois (Chicago, Illinois) |
| Unassigned | University of Buffalo (Buffalo, New York) |