Upsilon Pi Epsilon
| Dades | |
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| Tipus | societat d'honor  |
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| Creació | 1967 |
| Lloc web | upe.acm.org |
Upsilon Pi Epsilon (ΥΠΕ): International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines, is the first honor society dedicated to the discipline of the computing and information disciplines. Informally known as UPE, Upsilon Pi Epsilon was founded in 1967 at Texas A&M University and has chartered over 270 chapters at college campuses across the world. Since that time, a second computer-field specific honorary was established with the name Epsilon Delta Pi.[1] With the rise of importance of information technology to many fields, other honorary societies have added computer science to their traditional scope.[2]
Upsilon Pi Epsilon is endorsed by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE-CS), the two largest computer organizations in the world. Aside from conferring honor on computer science and computer engineering students, it has a large involvement with the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. UPE is a member of the ACHS - Association of College Honor Societies.
Membership in UPE, like many other honor societies, is lifetime. Newly inducted student members get a free year of ACM student-level membership as well. Additionally, UPE gives out a number of scholarships for its members and those who are active student members of the ACM or IEEE-CS.
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Upsilon Pi Epsilon is the first and only, existing international honor society in the Computing and Information Disciplines. It has received endorsements from the two largest computer organizations in the world, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS).
The mission of Upsilon Pi Epsilon is to recognize academic excellence at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in the Computing and Information Disciplines.
Referències
- ↑ See for example Epsilon Delta Pi's Alpha Beta Chapter at Baylor University Arxivat 2014-10-05 a Wayback Machine., accessed 18 September 2014
- ↑ An example is Sigma Zeta, whose discipline scope now includes natural sciences/mathematics/computer science
Enllaços externs
- UPE Homepage (anglès)
- ACHS Upsilon Pi Epsilon entry (anglès)
- Upsilon Pi Epsilon chapter list at ACHS (anglès)