USF Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon
Upsilon Pi Epsilon is
an honor society to recognize scholarship and professionalism in the fields of
Computer Sciences. It was founded in 1967 by six students at Texas A&M
University.
Currently, over 120 institutions of higher education around the world have
established UPE chapters.
It is the only international honor society in the Computing Sciences.
UPE has been officially recognized by both the ACM and by the IEEE Computer Society.
Membership in UPE is limited to candidates who meet the original goals of the
society:
- recognition of outstanding talent in the computing sciences
- promotion of high scholarship in the computing sciences
- establishment and maintenance of high standards
- representation of the computing sciences in
interdisciplinary communications
- encouragement of individual contributions to society
through the computing sciences
