Student organizations bring in speakers from various engineering fields, sponsor field trips to construction and manufacturing sites, help coordinate Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois, sponsor movies, competitions, and social events, and assist in finding summer employment for students.
These groups include:
- American Concrete Institute student chapter
- American Railway Engineering and Maintenance-of-Way Association Student Chapter
- American Society of Civil Engineers student chapter
- American Society for Engineering Education student chapter
- CEE Student Committee
- Chi Epsilon
- Civil Engineers of Diverse Ethnicity
- Concrete Canoe Team
- Construction Management Association of America
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) student chapter
- Engineers Without Borders
- Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization
- Graduate Student Advisory Council
- Institute of Transportation Engineers
- International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research
- International Water Resources Association
- National Society of Black Engineers student chapter
- Society of Hispanic Engineers
- Society of Pavement Engineers
- Society of Women Engineers student chapter
- Steel Bridge Team
- Structural Engineering Graduate Student Organization
- Structural Engineers Association
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society
- U.S. Green Building Council student chapter




