IIE is the world's largest professional membership society dedicated solely to the support of the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity. Visit the NCSU IIE student chapter website for additional information.
APM is the industrial engineering honor society, recognizing outstanding junior and senior students. Juniors in the upper one-fifth and seniors in the upper one-third of their classes are eligible for consideration. Each year members undertake projects that are of value to the department and their fellow industrial engineering students. Efforts are made to advance movements for further improvement of the student's education, to create a closer and more meaningful student-faculty relationship, and to promote the function and importance of the industrial engineer. Please visit the APM student chapter's webpage for additional information.
"The American Society for Quality, a professional association headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, creates better workplaces and communities worldwide by advancing learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange" (Source: www.asq.org)
"SME is the world's leading professional society supporting lifelong
manufacturing education. Through member programs, publications, expositions
and professional development resources, SME promotes an increased awareness
of manufacturing engineering and helps keep manufacturing professionals up
to date on leading trends and technologies" (Source:
www.sme.org)
The NCSU Furniture Club, SOFAS, seeks to enhance the professional development and strengthen the spirit of fellowship among students, alumni, faculty, and friends of the furniture industry. Though mostly composed of students of the Industrial Engineering/Furniture Manufacturing Program, the club also welcomes students from the Industrial Design, Wood Science, and Industrial Engineering curriculum, or anyone else with an interest in furniture. Visit their webpage: http://clubs.ncsu.edu/sofas
The North Carolina State University Chapter of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society is organized primarily to serve the needs of ergonomics students at NC State. Its purpose is to promote and advance the understanding of human factors involved in the design, manufacturing, and use of machines, systems, and devices of all kinds through the interchange of knowledge and methodology in the behavioral, biological, and physical sciences.
The chapter's membership is comprised mainly of graduate students and faculty in the departments of Industrial Engineering and Psychology, although students and faculty from any university department who have an interest in the area of human factors/ergonomics are welcome to join.