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About Pi Epsilon Tau

Purpose

To foster a closer bond between industry and petroleum engineering students at Texas A&M, and to facilitate personal and professional development of its members.

History 

Petroleum Engineering’s honor society, Pi Epsilon Tau, was founded at the University of Oklahoma in 1947. Paul S. Johnston led a group of petroleum engineers who shared a sincere desire to create for the petroleum industry an organization that fosters loyalty, good fellowship, and mutual cooperation.

PiET Founding Class - 1947

Membership

Members are chosen through a holistic review on the basis of their scholastic accomplishments, leadership, and sociability from the undergraduate and graduate classes of the Petroleum Engineering Department at Texas A&M University. Students with a GPA of 3.5/4.0 or higher will receive automatic admission. Students who's GPA falls below the requirement can join as Pledges, where they will be tasked to demonstrate leadership merit as receive honorary membership

Pledgeship

Pledges will be accepted at the start of each academic semester. During their pledge-ship, students will have limited membership and must demonstrate merit in the following categories to be recognized as honorary members:

- Leadership

- Professionalism

- Academia

- Philanthropy

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For more information regarding our Pledge program, please scan the QR code below:

Other Chapters - Pi Epsilon Tau

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  • Alpha - University of Oklahoma

  • Beta - University of Tulsa

  • Gamma - Texas Tech University

  • Delta - Louisiana State University

  • Epsilon - University of Southern California *

  • Zeta - Marietta College

  • Eta - University of California at Berkeley

  • Theta - Pennsylvania State University

  • Iota - Louisiana Tech University

  • Kappa - University of Texas at Austin

  • Lambda - West Virginia University

  • Mu - University of Missouri at Rolla

  • Nu - Mississippi State University

  • Xi - Montana College of Mineral Science and Technology

  • Omicron - Texas A&M University

  • Pi - New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology *

  • Rho - University of Southwestern Louisiana

  • Sigma - University of Wyoming

  • Tau - Colorado School of Mines

  • Upsilon - Texas A&I University

 

* Inactive at present

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