What is Eta Kappa Nu?

Eta Kappa Nu is not just an electrical and computer engineering honor society--it is the electrical and computer engineering honor society. It is the only one there is and it speaks for all the electrical and computer engineering scholars in the world. There are 199 college chapters in the major U.S. institutions, 4 Alumni Chapters, and over 175,000 members worldwide.

Eta Kappa Nu was founded on October 28, 1904, at the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. The purpose of Eta Kappa Nu is:

"That those in the profession of electrical and computer engineering, who by their attainments in college or in practice,have manifested a deep interest and marked ability in their chosen life work,may be brought into closer union so as to foster a spirit of liberal culture in the engineering colleges and to mark in an out standing manner those who, as students, in electrical and computer engineering have conferred honor on their Alma Maters by distinguished scholarship, activities, leadership and exemplary character, and to help these students progress by association with alumni who have attained prominence."

Why is Eta Kappa Nu called Eta Kappa Nu?

:) In early Greece there was a philosopher who discovered that if he rubbed a piece of amber with a cloth he experienced the phenomena that we know as static electricity. The Greek name for amber is spelled nlektpov (Eta Lambda Epsilon Kappa Tau Rho Omicron Nu). From this word the English language derives the words: electricity, electron, and electronic. And from this name we derive our name -- we use the first, the fourth, and the last letters, namely Eta, Kappa, and Nu. The symbols used on the emblem are the early forms of these Greek letters. (Note: in greek, E is Epsilon!)