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
- Chi Epsilon
- Civil Engineers of Diverse Ethnicity
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute student chapter
- Engineers Without Borders
- Geotechnical Engineering Student Organization
- Graduate Student Advisory Council
- Institute of Transportation Engineers
- International Association for Hydraulic Research student chapter
- International Water Resources Association student chapter
- National Society of Black Engineers student chapter
- Society of Hispanic Engineers
- Society of Women Engineers student chapter
- Structural Engineers Association
- Tau Beta Pi Engineering Society









