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: Emma Slagle '26, Dane Keahi '27.

The American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the largest technical society for aerospace in the world.  The Yale student branch aims to provide students interested in aerospace engineering with mentorship, research, and engineering opportunities on both the local and national scale.

Co-Presidents: Riley Houser '28 and Juan Gutierrez '28. 

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.

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.

Leadership: Andy Cheng '26, Eva Zheng '27.

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: Bronson Hooper '27

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: Mariabelen Orduno '26.

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: Eléonore Lieffrig GSAS/SEAS '29 and Poly Popova GSAS/SEAS '30

Undergrad SWE Co-Presidents: Abby Matsuyasu '27 and Ava Canney '26

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: Nicolas Liu '26.

Amoriem Labs is Yale’s undergraduate game development club, uniting students across disciplines who share a passion for games and interactive media. Our members include designers, programmers, artists, writers, composers, and more, working together to create and publish original indie games. Beyond development, we foster a creative community through game jams, guest speakers, and social events, providing students with opportunities to explore game design, build skills, and collaborate on projects that bring ideas to life.

Leadership: Chris Shia '27

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.

President: Nora Ransibrahmanakul '27

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 across majors who share the goal of using design to change lives in ways both big and small. We bring together engineers, designers, and entrepreneurs to tackle real-world challenges through human-centered design, collaborating with both nonprofit and for-profit partners to create meaningful community impact.

Leadership: Mandy Chen '28 and Miffy Wang '28.

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: Millie Wyler '28. 

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: Kashvi Pundir '27, Joey Tan '26

Yale Artificial Intelligence Association is a community for Yale students passionate about exploring the possibilities and challenges of artificial intelligence. Our goal is to make AI accessible, engaging, and collaborative—whether through hands-on projects, thought-provoking discussions, or creative applications of cutting-edge tools. We believe that AI is not just a technical field, but one that intersects with nearly every aspect of society, and we aim to provide a space where people from all disciplines can learn, build, and contribute.

We exist to empower Yale students to shape the future of AI together—by working on ambitious projects, hosting conversations with leading thinkers, and organizing workshops, hackathons, and events that spark curiosity and innovation (and are fun too). Whether you're brand new to AI or already deeply immersed, Yale Artificial Intelligence Association is a way for students to help each other connect and grow.

Leadership: Ananya Krishna '26, Lukass Kellijs '27

The Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) at Yale University is a student-led society that was founded in 2014. We are an undergraduate chapter of the international BMES association, and our primary goal is to enhance student awareness of the biomedical engineering field. We also function as a support network for students within the major as they take courses and engage in extracurricular activities at Yale and beyond. Our goal is to foster the forefront of technology, biological sciences, medicine, and engineering on campus while bringing each BME cohort closer together.

Leadership: William Wang '27

The largest pre-professional community of student developers on campus, y/cs builds projects with thousands of users, hosts esteemed speakers, and offers free access to API tokens and LLMs for members; all in pursuit of fundamentally elevating the culture of STEM and Computer Science at Yale. y/cs developers are united by a shared, impact-focussed mission, which has culminated thus far in six live, open source projects used every minute by Yale students. General membership is 100% acceptance, so we encourage all Yalies interested to join!.

Co-Presidents: Ryan Fernandes '28, Lily Lin '27.

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.

Co-Presidents: David Moreno '27, Pablo Diaz '28.

Helix is Yale’s only undergraduate-run incubator. We take pride in bringing together a broad spectrum of some of Yale's most talented, motivated, and ambitious entrepreneurs and students to challenge real-world problems in software, healthcare, and biotech. We seek students from all backgrounds, across sofware engineering, finance, biology, and liberal arts. Students join some of the most accomplished rising startups in long-term working relationships. From full-stack software development, researching biologics, marketing & UI/UX, to raising capital from investors, students make an impact in a real-world setting while building skills, professional connections, and achievements.

Leadership: William Liu '27, Jiya Mody '27

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.

Leadership: Ethan Powell '27, Miya Zhao '27.

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, Ava Schwarz '27.

The Yale Undergraduate Chemical Engineering Design Society aims to provide a space through which individuals from all STEM disciplines can explore and apply fundamental engineering principles, including— but not limited to— chemical engineering principles, to solve real-life challenges. YCEDS aims to provide club members access to laboratory space, faculty mentorship and inter-collegiate engineering competitions in order to explore engineering principles in vastly exciting ways. Whether it is building a fuel cell to operate an autonomous rover (AIChE ChemE Car Competition), synthesizing a modular liquid-gas system (AIChE Student Design Competition), or designing a 1 ft3 plant model of a chemistry based solution to an industry problem (AIChE ChemE Cube), members of YCEDS can be assured that they will engage in meaningful and interesting projects throughout their membership.

Co-Presidents: Kathia Serrano Perez '27 and YuLin Zhen '27.