CLUBS and activities
Below is a list of undergraduate clubs and activities (divided into societies/centers, community groups, publications/journal clubs, and competitions) that are related to engineering and the applied sciences.All students, not simply concentrators, are encouraged to participate.
SOCIETIES/CENTERS
Harvard Computer Society (HCS)
The Harvard Computer Society is an undergraduate student group dedicated to promoting, improving, and developing interest in computing and informational technologies among members of the Harvard community. HCS provides webspace and email accounts for various Harvard groups. HCS also works on several projects throughout the year, such as seminars on computer topics, improving the tools available to student groups, and the wildly popular Valentine's Day Datamatch. No experience is required to get involved.Advisors: Franklin Steen (fsteen@fas.harvard.edu); Harry R. Lewis (lewis@harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
board@hcs.harvard.edu
http://hcs.harvard.edu
Harvard College Engineering Society (HCES)
The Harvard Engineering Society brings engineering together with the planning, entrepreneurship, and creativity that make it effective in today's world. Advisors: Radhika Nagpal (rad@eecs.harvard.edu); Robert Howe (howe@seas.harvard.edu); Howard A. Stone (has@seas.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hces/
Harvard College Interactive Media Group
To explore the form and impact of interactive media. The group focuses largely on video games, as this we believe this mode to present a uniquely successful balance of technology, practicality, and psychological awareness. Our projects: Harvard Gaming Initiative: a series of gaming groups, events, and resources for Harvard students HIM Design Group: a development group producing actual games HIM Review: a quarterly review, featuring articles from students and from prominent academics and professionals HIM Colloquium: a monthly forum for those in Boston area interested in games and interactive media.For more information on this group, please contact/visit: http://www.harvardinteractivemedia.org/blog/
Harvard College Sports Analysis Collective
HSAC is a Harvard student organization dedicated to quantitative analysis of sports strategy and management. This blog is student-run and features the original contributions of Harvard undergraduates, graduates, faculty, and affiliates.For more information on this group, please contact/visit: http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsac/Blog/
Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior
The Harvard Society for Mind, Brain, and Behavior is an undergraduate organization that fosters exchange across disciplines: among students who are formally involved in Mind/Brain/Behavior program tracks (neurobiology, psychology, philosophy, computer science, history of science, biological anthropology, and linguistics) or else informally interested in MBB-related topics or courses. Programs include dinner discussions with faculty, movie nights, field trips, symposia, and other special events.Advisors: Stephen Michael Kosslyn (smk@wjh.harvard.edu); John E. Dowling (dowling@mcb.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
hsmbb@hcs.harvard.edu
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsmbb
Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH)
TECH's mission is to advance the understanding and practice of translating science and technology into societal benefit. TECH is both a real and virtual space for students, faculty, alumni, and industry leaders to learn together, collaborate, and innovate. TECH encourages the extracurricular exercise of students' innovative and entrepreneurial spirit while they continue the pursuit of their formal education. It is a place where technologies may find application ideas, ideas may find implementation technologies, and both may find the people they need to succeed.Advisor: Paul Bottino (pbottino@seas.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
tech@seas.harvard.edu/tech
COMMUNITY GROUPS
The Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers
The Harvard Society of Black Scientist and Engineers seeks to provide a support system for students pursuing degrees, or those who have attained degrees, in fields of applied sciences and engineering. Aware of the dearth of minority scientists and engineers both at Harvard and on the whole, this organization aims to address the problematic issues which minimize the numbers of students who pursue and complete curricular requirements in these fields. HSBSE seeks to promote black scholastic achievement; to insure the completion of a degree in an applied science or engineering program once a student has entered Harvard University; to promote the social standing of the Black student in science and engineering; to establish and maintain tutorial programs for college, high school and junior high students; to provide college, high school and junior high school students with proper engineering counseling, to assist in job placement; and to strive toward a better understanding among all engineers regardless of race, creed, or color.Advisors: Robert M. Woollacott (rwoollacott@harvard.edu); Jamil Bennette Scott (jamil_scott@student.hms.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
hsbse@hcs.harvard.edu
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hsbse
Harvard College Engineers Without Borders
Harvard College Engineers Without Borders (HCEWB) is affiliated with Engineers Without Borders - USA, a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities around the world in order to improve their quality of life. As a result of the expanding School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, HCEWB seeks to promote a global consciousness among students by working on environmentally sound and economically sustainable engineering projects. The projects usually last 3-5 years and culminate in a trip to the community in which they will be implemented. Members from a variety of concentrations are encouraged to join. HCEWB is dedicated to the EWB mission: "Building A Better World, One Community At A Time."
Advisors: Marie Dahleh (mdahleh@seas.harvard.edu); Robert J. Wood (rjwood@eecs.harvard.edu).
Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR)
WISHR is devoted to fostering a sense of community and solidarity for women engaged in science. Founded in 1989, it is the largest organization on campus that seeks to address the political, social, and academic concerns of undergraduate women in the sciences. Towards this goal, WISHR sponsors academic, career, and public service programs, creates mentoring networks with graduate- and professional-level women, and serves as a multidisciplinary resource for those pursuing the sciences. Advisors: Julia G. Fox (julia_fox@harvard.edu); Judith H. Kidd ( jhkidd@fas.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
wishr@hcs.harvard.edu
http://hcs.harvard.edu/~wishr/
Women in Computer Science (WICS)
WICS is devoted to fostering a sense of community amongwomen engaged in computer science and related fields at Harvard College.
Advisors: Barbara Grosz (grosz@eecs.harvard.edu);
Radhika Nagpal (rad@eecs.harvard.edu);
Mema Roussopoulos (mema@eecs.harvard.edu);
Margo Seltzer (margo@eecs.harvard.edu)
PUBLICATIONS/JOURNAL CLUBS
Harvard Energy Journal Club
The Harvard Energy Journal Club (HEJC) is a weekly journal club to facilitate discussion and understanding of the technical details of energy technology and energy economics. Each session, members will discuss a contemporary technical-article regarding the science and/or technology of energy. HEJC's primary purpose is not to discuss policy issues, but rather it is to enable its members to develop the necessary technical background to better understand energy issues and policy.For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
Kurt House ( kurt.house@gmail.com )
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~khouse/HEJC/harvardenergy.htm
Venture Media Group
Venture Media Group (VMG) is a professional media enterprise for students run by Harvard undergraduates. VMG produces Venture Magazine, Career, and Venture Interactive. Venture Magazine, winner of the Associated Collegiate Press' Pacemaker Award, has a readership of over 30,000. The magazine focuses on the business of media and technology as it affects your life. Career is a new publication that connects professional recruiters with Harvard students. Venture Interactive is a multimedia website that contains content from VMG publications in addition to its own unique content and features.Advisors: Paul B. Bottino (pbottino@seas.harvard.edu); Tal Ben-Shachar (talben@wjh.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
wbaxter@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard Science Review
The Harvard Science Review presents current scientific advancements to the undergraduate community at Harvard. We have a talented pool of students that work to put together the magazine, which is published once each semester.Advisors: David Morin (morin@physics.harvard.edu);Richard M. Losick (losick@mcb.harvard.edu)
For more information on this group, please contact/visit:
hsr@hcs.harvard.edu
http://www.harvardsciencereview.org
COMPETITIONS
iGEM
The International Genetically Engineered Machine competition is an arena where student teams compete to design and assemble engineered machines using advanced genetic components and technologies. For more details, see the Harvard team's wiki.Advisors: Pamela Silver; George Church; Radhika Nagpal; Jagesh V. Shah; William Shih; and Alain Viel.
Harvard Computing Content Club (HC3)
The Harvard Computing Contest Club (formerly known as the Harvard ACM Team) sends two teams of 3 undergraduates every year to compete in a the ACM Northeastern Preliminary Contest. The team that does best, if it does well enough, goes on to complete in the ACM Northeastern Regional Contest, and if that team does well enough there, it goes on to the ACM World Finals (held in 2005 in Shanghai, China). Harvard typically sends a team to the World Finals about one out of every two years. Advisors: Bob Walton (walton@seas.harvard.edu); David Brooks (dbrooks@eecs.harvard.edu)
For more details and to get involved:
http://people.deas.harvard.edu/%7Ehc3/