Student Clubs & Organizations

The U.S. Space Command's Academic Engagement Enterprise (AEE) partners with academia to shape the future Space workforce, increase Space applied research and innovation, expand Space-focused academic partnerships, and enrich strategic Space dialogue. The AEE provides YSEAS-affiliated students and student organizations with guest speakers from various space-related professional backgrounds, as well as mentors for space-related research topics. Furthermore, engagement in the AEE allows Yale students access to exclusive events hosted by USSPACECOM: webinars, symposiums, senior leader-level leadership discussions, and more. Membership is extended to students of all experience levels, backgrounds, and majors. Students interested in hearing speakers on a certain space domain topic or getting involved with space policy research may receive more information by contacting our student leaders.

Leadership: Kylyn Smith '26, Sofia Verich '25.

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) is a national, nonprofit, organization focused on substantially increasing the representation of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, First Nations and other indigenous peoples of North America in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) studies and careers. The vision of AISES is for the next seven generations of Native people to be successful, respected, influential, and contributing members of our vast and ever-changing global community.

Leadership: Kyra Kaya '26, Jairus Rhoades '26.

The Yale student chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AlChE) sponsors activities focused on the technical interests of its members and professional opportunities for beginning engineers. Members also participate in activities sponsored by the New Haven professional chapter. Membership is open to undergraduates enrolled in any engineering program.

Leadership: Nicolas Liu '26, Aidan Pulmano '26.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an international organization founded to promote and enhance the technical competency and professional well-being of its members. The focus of the student chapter is to mirror these values while providing a sense of community for students of mechanical engineering. The chapter also serves to arrange member events, such as community outreach; field trips to local industry; mentorship; guest speakers; and workshops, with a focus on higher education and career building.

Leadership: Dylan Sevenikar '25 and Maria Korolik '25.

The Yale Student Branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) dates back to 1911 as part of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers—one of the IEEE parent organizations—under the leadership of Prof. Charles F. Scott, a former president of the AIEE. Y-IEEE brings students together for cool Electrical Engineering projects, including a replica of the Apple I computer, a giant LED movie screen, a holiday light spectacle, a campus-wide ham radio network, and a lightsaber. The club also seeks to promote electrical engineering through workshops, talks with distinguished speakers, and conferences. Members receive IEEE publications at reduced rates.

Co-chairs: Lailah Nabegu '26 and Daniela Flores '25.

The National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) seeks to increase the number of black engineers who excel academically, succeed professionally, and have a positive impact on the community. Founded in 1975, NSBE has 15,000 undergraduate members in more than 300 chapters on U.S. and foreign college campuses and 80 alumni chapters. The Yale chapter, founded in 1992, coordinates events on campus and attends NSBE-sponsored workshops on academic excellence, professional development, and networking with representatives from major corporations and NSBE members from other colleges. Because all students can benefit from NSBE's resources, NSBE-Yale welcomes students regardless of discipline or ethnicity.

Leadership: Bayan Mohamed '26, Deja Dunlap '26.

SHPE at Yale is one of more than 300 student chapters across the country aiming to increase Hispanic representation in the fields of engineering, encourage networking for Hispanic engineering students through workshops and national/regional conferences, and promote STEM for K-12 students through outreach events.

Leadership: João Pedro Fernandes '25.

The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and to be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.

GradSWE Co-Presidents: Ju Hyun Lee GSAS/SEAS '27 and Alev Baysoy GSAS/SEAS '27

Undergrad SWE Co-Presidents: Halyn McKenzie '25 and Nicole Massoumi '25

The Bulldogs Racing team designs and constructs all-electric, formula-style racecars. Since its founding in 2006, the team has consistently trained future leaders in both engineering and business, equipping students with real-world experience that spans technical expertise and strategic management. The team's electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and business subteams collaborate closely throughout the design and development process, solving complex challenges to bring the project to fruition and push the boundaries of electric vehicle technology. Their efforts culminate in the Formula Hybrid+Electric Competition, where they compete in design and racing events against other top universities.

Co-Presidents: Ian Fernandes '26 and Brandon Lin '26.

Code Haven is a Yale undergraduate student organization that teaches weekly computing lessons at middle schools, engaging students with online lessons, unplugged activities and class-wide demonstrations. Code Haven’s mission is to inclusively increase access to computer science among middle school students, regardless of previous interest.

Leadership: Aya Kasim '26, Caleb Nieh '26.

Design for America (DFA) Yale is a diverse group of undergraduate and graduate students from several different majors sharing the same goal of using design to change lives in ways both big and small. DFA Yale seeks to engage students with both Yale and New Haven communities to make meaningful change and instill a sense of community pride and responsibility.

Leadership: Daven Yadav '25 and Kai Zhang '26.

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is an undergraduate organization that strives to foster the creative and innovative application of engineering and multi-disciplinary skills in collaboration with stakeholders to realize change and to improve the environment, health, and community capacity in international projects.

Leadership: Kate Van Tassel '26, Freddy Ramon '26.

FIRST at Yale serves as a community of students dedicated to supporting FIRST. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) is an international robotics competition for K-12 students that aims to teach professionalism and cooperative competition through hands-on engineering. Yale is home to hundreds of FIRST alumni, and the FIRST at Yale organization was founded in 2017 to give these alumni a home to continue FIRST's mission as well as welcoming new members to the FIRST community. FIRST at Yale members help mentor teams, provide support and a professional network, volunteer at competitions, and more.

Leadership: Pev Vail '26. 

The purpose of Yale Women & Gender Minorities in Computer Science (WGiCS) is to encourage students to explore computer science courses, retain students in the major, and build a community of women and gender minorities interested in computer science. We host study and support groups, teach free workshops, bring speakers to campus, organize lunches with professors, sponsor trips to conferences, coordinate dinners with women in the industry, liaise with the computer science department and alumni, and more. Most importantly, we enable students to build relationships with each other—and what naturally follows is a more welcoming, supportive and inclusive environment for students to succeed. WGiCS celebrates all underrepresented gender minorities, including trans, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary individuals.

Leadership: Madelyn Mao '25, Mina Aral '26

The Yale Computer Society is a student-run organization that was founded to support the growing CS community. We work on several projects throughout the year to improve the experience of students interested in technology and entrepreneurship at Yale.

President: Betti Tang '26, Daniel Wang '27.

Yale e-NABLE seeks to join the global e-NABLE community in providing free, customizable 3D printed upper limb assistive devices to those in need. The Yale chapter focuses on reaching the broader New Haven community with e-NABLE prosthetic designs and has the unique opportunity to collaborate with a digital network of e-NABLE community members.

President: Colin Means '25.

The Yale Funbotics mission is to introduce robotics to the underrepresented youth in New Haven and encourage imagination and teamwork. By providing an early, hands-on look into engineering, Funbotics aims to drive more children into STEM fields from a young age. Through our program, students not only learn the foundations of robotics and develop critical thinking, team-building, and presentation skills, but they also are exposed to the fun in robotics and STEM.

Leadership: George Ploumis '26, Sahiti Rachakonda '25.

YHack is the undergraduate organization dedicated to planning and running the annual Yale Hackathon under the same name (YHack). The YHack event is a 36-hour hackathon that brings together students from all over the U.S. with different backgrounds to create and build. Our organization also puts together a day event for high schoolers called Code Boola. Yale students can teach these students the basics of coding and challenge them to think in ways they might not have before.

Leadership: Brandon Yee '25.

The Yale international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) team is a synthetic biology research team composed of undergraduates from various STEM disciplines across our university. We are passionate about finding genomic based solutions to real-world problems. During the summer, the Yale iGEM team strives to conduct both wet-lab and dry-lab research and in the fall, present that research on the international stage.

President: Sandra Temgoua.

Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association (YUAA) members work in teams to build and fly rockets, planes, quadcopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles. From the first idea to finished aircraft, YUAA projects are entirely student-run. Since 2010, YUAA has helped foster Yale's engineering community by welcoming students of any experience level or background and hosting events to promote aerospace engineering on campus.

Co-Presidents: Aaron Cope '26, Jonah Halperin '26.

The Yale Undergraduate Research Association (YURA) was founded in 2015 in order to foster a community of undergraduate researchers and support the next generation of investigators at Yale. Since then, YURA has grown to become the foremost student group at Yale working to make the world-class research opportunities at Yale more accessible to undergraduates and improve the Yale undergraduate research experience. YURA collaborates with administration, faculty, and alumni to run large-scale initiatives designed to support undergraduates interested in pursuing research/academia—including holding biannual research symposiums, publishing the Yale Undergraduate Research Journal, running the Graduate-Undergraduate Mentorship Initiative, and developing the Yale Research Database.

Tau Beta Pi is the only national engineering honor society representing the entire engineering profession.  The first Connecticut chapter of Tau Beta Pi—Connecticut Alpha—was established at Yale in 1923.  Connecticut Alpha admits Juniors in the top 1/8 of their class and Seniors in the top 1/5 of their class who are majoring in Biomedical Engineering, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science.  Membership in Tau Beta Pi grants students access to a large network of academic, professional, and financial resources.  At Yale, Connecticut Alpha members organize events to promote engineering culture at Yale and in the greater New Haven community.

President: Russell Yang, '25.