General Information

Benefits of Membership

Recognition as someone who has shown exceptional academic interests, abilities and leadership in the field of industrial engineering.

Association and experience of belonging to a group with similar interests, objectives and abilities.

Participation in activities beneficial to the industrial engineering profession and industrial engineering education.

Opportunity to create a closer student-faculty relationship by periodically bringing together the thoughts, needs and ideals of both.

Opportunity to assist and cooperate with all organizations and persons concerned with the interests of industrial engineering.

Opportunity to promote the professional development and welfare of the members.

Chapter Charter Policies and Procedures

A charter may be granted for the organization of an active chapter at any university that offers a four-year degree program in industrial engineering or its equivalent, which is approved by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or other equivalent accrediting agency.

Petitions for charters shall be submitted to the national executive director. These petitions shall be signed by at least nine persons qualified for membership.

The executive council shall act upon these petitions within sixty (60) days of the receipt of the petition by the executive director.

Upon approval by three-quarters of the executive council of the petition for a charter, and upon payment to Alpha Pi Mu for the initiation fees of members to be initiated, said petitioning group is entitled to receive a charter at a formal ceremony and is entitled to all of the privileges of an active chapter as provided for in the constitution. No fee shall be assessed for the charter of any active chapter.

When a charter for an active chapter is granted to the petitioning group, the executive director shall arrange the details of the installation.

Criteria for Membership and Initiation Fee

Active membership shall be open to undergraduate students fully registered in an industrial engineering or comparable engineering curriculum, which curriculum has been approved by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) or other equivalent accrediting agency, who are ranked as third or fourth year students by their college and are in good and regular standing.

Third year students who have maintained an average scholastic grade in the upper one-fifth of the industrial engineering class of which they are a member shall be eligible for active membership.

Fourth year students who have maintained an average scholastic grade in the upper one-third of the industrial engineering class of which they are a member shall be eligible for active membership.

Transfer students ranked as third or fourth year students who have transferred from another school or department in the same school shall be eligible for active membership. They must have maintained a scholastic average in the upper one-fifth, if a third year student, or upper one-third if a fourth year student, of the class from which they transferred and maintained this average for one grade period after the transfer.

Active membership shall be open to graduate students, provided they are in good and regular standing and candidates for a graduate degree in an industrial engineering or comparable engineering curriculum.

Masters degree students must have completed at least one-third of the program requirements and rank in the upper one-half of their class.

Doctoral degree students must have a written recommendation from the head of the department of industrial engineering or a member of the faculty designated by the department head.

All students who meet the scholarship requirements should also exhibit positive characteristics of leadership, ethicality, sociability and widespread interest.

Membership in any other fraternity or society shall not exclude a student from active membership.

The scholastic requirements of the individual chapters may be raised above those set forth above.

The initiation fee is a one-time assessment of $45.00. The fee covers the cost of a certificate of membership, an Alpha Pi Mu key, and the general expenses of the organization.