About UPE

Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the first and only international honor society for the Computing Sciences. It was founded in 1967 to recognize scholarship and professionalism. In the years since then, over 120 institutions of higher education around the world have established to honor their students; many chapters also honor faculty with membership.

In 1967, UPE won recognition and endorsement from the ACM Executive Council:

The Association for Computing Machinery has endorsed the UPE concept and has agreed to encourage its spread to other universities through student chapters of the ACM.
In 1992, UPE received formal endorsement by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society moved that the Board of Governors of IEEE Computer Society endorse Upsilon Pi Epsilon as a honor society for the computing sciences.

The zeta chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon at University of Southern California was founded in 19??.

Membership in UPE is limited to candidates who can effectively achieve the goals of the society:

Invitation to Join, Fall 1995

Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE)
The Computer Science Honor Society

The UPE chapter at University of Southern California is accepting applications for membership. Upsilon Pi Epsilon (UPE) is the only national computer science honor society and has chapters all over the United States. The minimum requirements for membership are as follows:

Undergraduate Students

  1. The student must have completed the equivalent of 64 units of college work.
  2. The student must have completed the equivalent of 18 units of basic computer science courses.
  3. The student must have an overall grade point average of 3.0 or higher.
  4. The student's GPA in computer science courses must be a 3.0 or higher.
  5. The student must have been at University of Southern California for at least one semester.

Graduate Students

  1. The student must be a candidate for a graduate degree in Computational Sciences program.
  2. The student must have completed at least 18 hours of course work for that degree.
  3. The student must have a quality GPA of 3.8 or higher for courses taken in the curriculum.

If you meet all of the qualifications you can pick up an application form from Claire Bono in SAL 310.

If you have any questions email UPE@cs.usc.edu

Our chapter's officers are:

Our Faculty Advisor is Professor Claire Bono.

Our address is:


Upsilon Pi Epsilon
C/O Claire Bono
Department of Computer Science, SAL 300
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Planned Activities for Fall 1995

Other Possible Activitiess

Part of the excitement of being a member of UPE at USC is that you have a say in the activities we plan. Apart from the above activities, as a member of UPE you are welcome to propose/execute any activity. Some possible events are:

ALL CURRENT ACTIVITIES NEEDING VOLUNTEERS

Please contact Clint Chua to volunteer for above (or other) activities.

OBLIGATIONS

The only obligation is that you attend the UPE meetings that occur while you are in school. They should happen once or, at most, twice a quarter. Also, there may be some fund-raisers that we might ask for help with.

BENEFITS

Benefits include the previous possible projects, any scholarships offered by the national organization, and the yearly national convention. Also, you can set up a valuable network of people that may help you later in your career.

A pointer to the national home page of UPE

Maintained by University of Southern California UPE