Joining a student organization or club can help you make friends, develop leadership skills, find others with similar values and passions, and get involved in meaningful projects. Our clubs and organizations, teams, associations, and society student chapters, range from discipline-specific to cross-college groups.
(AADE) brings professional experiences within the energy industry to students. We successfully achieve this through three main avenues. First, we have weekday technical discussions in which an employee of an energy company comes to give a short lecture on new technology within the field or on the specific processes of their company. Next, we have a weekend-long technical elective courses, during which a professional comes to teach a skill that is necessary for students to have in the energy industry. Finally, we attend facility tours and conferences to give our members direct exposure to work sites and hundreds of professionals that they can ask questions and learn from.
In addition to these main functions of the organization we also have several subset organizations within AADE that help students gain additional professional or community development. Freshman Petroleum Learning Program is a program started two years ago, in which upperclassmen of the petroleum and natural gas engineering major teach freshmen the basic conceptual knowledge of the energy industry, making it easier for them to connect their engineering courses with real-world problems. Drillbowl is a five-person team that we send yearly to a trivia-based competition with other colleges across the country, where we are the 3rd place reigning champions. AADE Honorary Academic Society was created to award the most devoted members with a way to showcase their membership to AADE as above the average AADE member. AADE Outreach partners with Centre County Paws to promote our members being able to benefit the community by volunteering, donating, and becoming a foster homes to kittens to help this local humane society. AADE Drillbotics is a Society of Petroleum Engineers competition to see which college can build the best drilling rig simulation using new technology that we attend. The last subset organization that we are a part of is the Intercollegiate Engineering Conference Council, which is a new development in which engineering-based student organizations are coming together to host a conference that can bring companies and the student organizations of the College of Engineering and College of Earth and Mineral Sciences together.
Amin Mehrabian, amin.mehrabian@psu.edu
Our goal is to promote the knowledge, safety, and controlled use of explosives.
Mohammad Rezaee, mzr288@psu.edu
The Mining Society is the Penn State chapter of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, a national society of students and professionals in the mining industry. The mining society holds educational meetings in which notable members of the mining industry come and present on a topic of their choice. The mining society is also a source of scholarship and internship opportunities, as companies are often invited to come present opportunities they have to the students.
Mohammad Rezaee, mzr288@psu.edu
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, sxb1029@psu.edu
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The mission of the Penn State Energy Marketing Association (PSEMA) is to establish an intellectual forum where likeminded individuals shall discuss, share, engage in, and debate content related to energy markets for the purpose of acquiring industry fluidity and augmenting personal marketability.
The main objective of our organization is to publish a monthly comprehensive newsletter that covers current events across the energy industry from oil and gas to renewables and energy policy. We also have relationships with corporations within the industry and have exclusive info sessions and recruiting opportunities within the organization.
The Society for Energy Business and Finance offers students access to student lead workshops, special events with global companies, and 1-on-1 virtual professional development meetings. We also help students connect with alumni, recruiters, energy professionals, and other members so that you can get internships/ jobs that align with your career path as well as explore the diverse career paths offered to EBF students.
The Society of Energy Engineers is a student-run organization made to help its members build better professional and academic connections with people in the energy industry. While we are mostly made up of students in the energy engineering major, SEE welcomes everyone with an interest in energy generation and improvements in energy efficiency. We strive to make sure that all of our members build meaningful relationships that will allow them to use their degree to advance their career progress.
The objective of the club is to engage with the younger student body, and especially underclassmen ENVSE students. The club has a business led approach, where we try to show students what potential ENVSE jobs entail. This happens through guest speakers who describe what the daily life of an environmental engineer is like. The purpose of SESE is also to be able to introduce students to the faculty of EMS so that everyone has more connections and more opportunities down the line. All in all, the main goal is to publicize Environmental Systems Engineering to industry, corporations, and the Penn State Community.
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a professional organization whose purpose is to encourage the future members of the petroleum and natural gas industries. We strive to bring students, faculty, professional alumni, and distinguished members of the industry together to network. Members attend conferences all over the world. SPE is a space in which the younger students can learn from the more experienced students through mentoring and tutoring.
