What is UPE?
UPE, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, is an international honor society recognizing and promoting academic achievement in the computer and information disciplines. UPE is the first and only existing international honor society devoted to these fields. UPE has received endorsements from the two most prominent professional computer organizations in the world, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS). UPE supports both undergraduate and graduate students in their pursuit of academic excellence via scholarship awards.
New Member Induction Spring 2009
New members are invited to join by written invitation, when they have met UPE induction requirements, by the FSU CS Department. New members will need to print, fill out and return the response form provided here: UPE New Member Response Form
After you are Inducted: How to Obtain your One-Year Free Membership to ACM
One of the perks of UPE membership is a free one-year membership to ACM, which includes a one-year subscription to the very-highly regarded journal Communications of the ACM. To obtain your free membership: email orders@acm.org to submit your request. You will need to submit your full name, UPE 15-character member number, address, phone number, email address, gender, age, institution (chapter) name, expected degree title/field of study and expected year of graduation.
Chapter News
The induction of new members will be held April 24th, 2009. This event will coincide with the annual Honors and Awards Ceremony for the FSU Department of Computer Science. In addition, this year, the CS Department will be celebrating its 25th Anniversary at FSU. Please join us for the Honors Ceremony at 2:00 PM in HCB 316. Then, join us for a wonderful reception afterwards, at 3:30 PM in the Beth Moor Lounge in the Longmire Building.
Contacts
FSU UPE Faculty Advisor: A. Ford Tyson (aftyson at cs.fsu.edu)
FSU CS Department Undergraduate Advisor: Betty Stanton (stanton at cs.fsu.edu)