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Kappa Eta Kappa
Kappa Eta Kappa (ΚΗΚ) is an American co-educational professional fraternity and sorority for students of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and allied technical fields. Founded in 1923 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, it is a member of the Professional Fraternity Association (PFA). As of 2025, Kappa Eta Kappa comprises three active collegiate chapters, three alumni associations, and an estimated lifetime membership of six thousand.
Kappa Eta Kappa was founded on February 10, 1923 at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) in Iowa City, Iowa by fourteen electrical engineering students. However, efforts to form the fraternity began the prior year. It was established as a professional fraternity for male students who were majoring in electrical engineering. There were 25 charter members, including its first president Clinton H. Smoke, Will D. Crozier, William Nelson, Richard Schump, Leslie T. Tilton, and professors Claude H. Lapp and James R. Eyre. The charter members selected three honorary members from the electrical engineering faculty: Arthur K. Ford, head of the electrical engineering department, and professors Glenn K. Pierce and W. E. Schwob.
After the founding of the Alpha chapter, other chapters were quickly added. Beta was established in May 1923 at the University of Minnesota, followed by Gamma at Kansas University, Delta at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Epsilon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924.
The Alpha chapter purchased a chapter house on South Linn Street in Iowa City in October 1923. The chapter incorporated in May 1924. In May 1926, Beta chapter purchased a chapter house with eleven rooms on 631 Walnut Street SE in Minneapolis, Minnesotain.
In 1928, the fraternity was a founding member of the Professional Interfraternity Conference (PIC); however, it dropped its membership before PIC merged with the Professional Panhellenic Association to form the Professional Fraternity Association (PFA) in 1977.
World War II mobilization reduced Kappa Eta Kappa's enrollments so sharply that by 1944, only two chapters remained active. Its national conventions resumed in 1947; with its slow revival culminating in the establishment of Theta at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1957.
In 1981, Kappa Eta Kappa voted to admit women. The organization now calls itself a professional co-ed science and engineering fraternity and sorority. Iota at St. Cloud State University was installed in 1990, and remains active. The fraternity joined the Professional Fraternity Association in 2016.
Kappa Eta Kappa celebrated its centenary with coordinated founders’ day programs. Beta hosted a three-day technical symposium and gala in April 2023. Delta followed with a Centennial Banquet on October 12, 2024.
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Kappa Eta Kappa
Kappa Eta Kappa (ΚΗΚ) is an American co-educational professional fraternity and sorority for students of electrical engineering, computer engineering, and allied technical fields. Founded in 1923 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, it is a member of the Professional Fraternity Association (PFA). As of 2025, Kappa Eta Kappa comprises three active collegiate chapters, three alumni associations, and an estimated lifetime membership of six thousand.
Kappa Eta Kappa was founded on February 10, 1923 at the State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa) in Iowa City, Iowa by fourteen electrical engineering students. However, efforts to form the fraternity began the prior year. It was established as a professional fraternity for male students who were majoring in electrical engineering. There were 25 charter members, including its first president Clinton H. Smoke, Will D. Crozier, William Nelson, Richard Schump, Leslie T. Tilton, and professors Claude H. Lapp and James R. Eyre. The charter members selected three honorary members from the electrical engineering faculty: Arthur K. Ford, head of the electrical engineering department, and professors Glenn K. Pierce and W. E. Schwob.
After the founding of the Alpha chapter, other chapters were quickly added. Beta was established in May 1923 at the University of Minnesota, followed by Gamma at Kansas University, Delta at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and Epsilon at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1924.
The Alpha chapter purchased a chapter house on South Linn Street in Iowa City in October 1923. The chapter incorporated in May 1924. In May 1926, Beta chapter purchased a chapter house with eleven rooms on 631 Walnut Street SE in Minneapolis, Minnesotain.
In 1928, the fraternity was a founding member of the Professional Interfraternity Conference (PIC); however, it dropped its membership before PIC merged with the Professional Panhellenic Association to form the Professional Fraternity Association (PFA) in 1977.
World War II mobilization reduced Kappa Eta Kappa's enrollments so sharply that by 1944, only two chapters remained active. Its national conventions resumed in 1947; with its slow revival culminating in the establishment of Theta at the Milwaukee School of Engineering in 1957.
In 1981, Kappa Eta Kappa voted to admit women. The organization now calls itself a professional co-ed science and engineering fraternity and sorority. Iota at St. Cloud State University was installed in 1990, and remains active. The fraternity joined the Professional Fraternity Association in 2016.
Kappa Eta Kappa celebrated its centenary with coordinated founders’ day programs. Beta hosted a three-day technical symposium and gala in April 2023. Delta followed with a Centennial Banquet on October 12, 2024.