Joining a student organization or club can help you make friends, develop leadership skills, find others with similar values and passions, and get involved in meaningful projects. Our clubs and organizations, teams, associations, and society student chapters, range from discipline-specific to cross-college groups.
Organization Objectives/Description
(AADE) brings professional experiences within the energy industry to students. We successfully achieve this through three main avenues. First, we have weekday technical discussions in which an employee of an energy company comes to give a short lecture on new technology within the field or on the specific processes of their company. Next, we have a weekend-long technical elective courses, during which a professional comes to teach a skill that is necessary for students to have in the energy industry. Finally we attend facility tours and conferences in order to give our members direct exposure to work sites and hundreds of professionals that they are able to ask questions and learn from.
In addition to these main functions of the organization, we also have several subset organizations within AADE that help students gain additional professional or community development. Freshman Petroleum Learning Program started two years ago, in which upperclassmen of the petroleum and natural gas engineering major teach freshmen the basic conceptual knowledge of the energy industry, making it easier for them to connect their engineering courses with real-world problems. Drillbowl is a five-person team that we send yearly to a trivia-based competition with other colleges across the country, where we are the 3rd place reigning champions. The AADE Honorary Academic Society was created to award the most devoted members with a way to showcase their membership to AADE as above the average AADE member. AADE Outreach partners with Centre County Paws to promote our members' ability to benefit the community by volunteering, donating, and becoming a foster home to kittens to help this local humane society. AADE Drillbotics is a Society of Petroleum Engineer competition to see which college can build the best drilling rig simulation using new technology that we attend. The last subset organization that we are a part of is the Intercollegiate Engineering Conference Council, which is a new development in which engineering-based student organizations are coming together to host a conference that can bring companies and the student organizations of the College of Engineering and College of Earth and Mineral Sciences together.
Fall 2024–Spring 2025 Officers
- President: Bader Almulhim, bna5175@psu.edu
- Vice President: Khaled Al Turaif
- Secretary: Abdullah Alabri
- Treasurer: Fawaz Al Dhuwaihi
- Graduate Representative: Mychal Kearns
- Communications Chair: Dimitri Onguene
- Event Planner: Luis Mesquita
Faculty Advisor
Amin Mehrabian, amin.mehrabian@psu.edu
Associated Links
Organization Objectives/Description
AEE is a professional development club that aims to provide opportunities for our members beyond the classroom. We strive to educate our members about the energy industry and their options beyond their undergraduate years. By bringing in speakers and taking tours of energy systems around campus we prepare young engineers for their future careers.
Fall 2023–Spring 2024 Officers
President: Liz Baierlein, ekb5541@psu.edu
Vice President, Event Planner: Ryan Manning, rtm5349@psu.edu
Secretary: Olivia DiPrinzio, opd5018@psu.edu
Public Relations Chair: Sami Al Azri, sma6501@psu.edu
Treasurer: Ramakrishna Santrupth, sgv5047@psu.edu
Faculty Advisor
Eugune Morgan, eum19@psu.edu
Organization Objectives/Description
Our goal is to promote the knowledge, safety, and controlled use of explosives.
Fall 2024–Spring 2025 Officers:
- President: Ian Penrod, imp5170@psu.edu (fall only)
- Vice-President: Samson
- Secretary: Caleb O'Cain, cko5143@psu.edu
- Treasurer: Hunter Thomas, agc5338@psu.edu
Faculty Advisor
Mohammad Rezaee, mzr288@psu.edu
Associated Links
Organization Objectives/Description
Mine Rescue Team at Penn State aims to compete in Mine rescue competitions and to educate its members on proper mine safety and rescue.
Summary: Meetings will be held to educate its members on proper use of equipment, how to approach problems, and how to communicate effectively. Additionally, practices will be held and teams will be formed to compete in mine rescue scenarios against other schools across the United States. These scenarios put students in zero danger, however, it involves using real rescue equipment, and will demand both physical ability and a well rounded knowledge
Though the club is tied heavily into the EME department, we are open to all students, undergrad and grad, who have an interest in mine rescue!
Full: Across the nation, professional mine rescue teams train to respond to real underground mining emergencies, including roof falls, explosions, floods, and other situations. These teams are comprised of professional miners who take time away from work to practice with the team. Underground mines are legally obligated to have a team, or to contribute people to a regional team.
These teams also compete in mine rescue contests where the goal is to work their way through the disaster scenario and save the victims. These scenarios are all simulated and everyone is always in a safe environment. Teams will walk the field, which may or may not be in a mine, find clues and markers indicating simulated conditions, and then try to determine the best way to rescue the miners.
While collegiate-level mine rescue teams cannot be called to real emergencies, they can and do compete against professional teams in the same contests using the same rules. In these contests, the scenarios are written to make the team think and use the rules to figure out how to rescue survivors without endangering the team or damaging the mine. These problems are designed to test the teams; rescuing miners is not supposed to be easy.
Penn State’s student mine rescue team trains students to respond to underground mining emergencies. The team competes against other collegiate and professional mine rescue teams across the eastern United States to see who can rescue disaster victims most efficiently.
The team was originally founded in 2011 by Ed Zeglen and Susan Bealko, two accomplished alumni of Penn State, in response to the nation’s growing need for professional mine rescue teams. Under the student leadership of the team’s first captain Drew Mason, the team traveled to the Colorado School of Mines Edgar Mine contest in Idaho Springs, Colorado. The team won first place in the Confined Space Maze Race and Exploration in Smoke competition, earning themselves first place overall in the team’s inception year.
The team joined the Eastern Collegiate Mine Rescue Organization (ECMRO) in 2016 and, under the leadership of Sam Baker, placed second in the organization’s inaugural contest, losing to the University of Kentucky by a single point.
TJ Greene took over the team in 2017 during a rebuilding process. After losing four of six of the fall semester’s seniors, Greene and Chris Burge took to the task of recruitment and training. In the spring semester of 2018 the team fielded ten new members with no mine rescue contest experience. Greene and Burge named Joelson Alves and Kevin Toe the next team captains, who went on to win third place in their first contest.
The team became an official RSO in 2018, and in 2019 Penn State hosted its first Eastern Collegiate Mine Rescue Organization contest in the Ag Arena on the University Park campus.
Fall 2024–Spring 2025 Officers
President, Safety Officer, Instructor: Tsunami Sharmba, tbs5454@psu.edu
Treasurer, Event Planner: Chase Gleason, cmg6529@psu.edu
Faculty Advisor
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, sxb1029@psu.edu
Organization Objectives/Description
The Mining Society is the Penn State chapter of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, a national society of students and professionals in the mining industry. The mining society holds educational meetings in which notable members of the mining industry come and present on a topic of their choice. The mining society is also a source of scholarship and internship opportunities, as companies are often invited to come present opportunities they have to the students.
Fall 2024–Spring 2025 Officers
- President: Chase Gleason, cmg6529@psu.edu
- Vice- President: Emily Ream,
- Secretary, Cherif Diallo
- Treasurer: Tsunami Sharmba, tbs5454@psu.edu
Faculty Advisor
Mohammad Rezaee, mzr288@psu.edu
Sekhar Bhattacharyya, sxb1029@psu.edu
Associated Links
On Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/pennstatemining/.
Organization Objectives/Description
The Society for Energy Business and Finance offers students access to student lead workshops, special events with global companies, and 1-on-1 virtual professional development meetings. We also help students connect with alumni, recruiters, energy professionals, and other members so that you can get internships/ jobs that align with your career path as well as explore the diverse career paths offered to EBF students.
Fall 2023–Spring 2024 Officers
- President: Nicholas Zanaras, nfz5065@psu.edu
- Vice President: Corey Lindey, cnl5228@psu.edu
- Media Manager: Alexa Liggieri, apl5537@psu.edu
- Recruitment Officer: Mark Goggin
- Energy Analyst: Austin Lobaugh
- Treasurer: Thomas Reger
Faculty Advisor
- Zhen Lei, zxl26@psu.edu
Associated Links
Organization Objectives/Description
The objective of the club is to engage with the younger student body, and especially underclassmen ENVSE students. The club has a business-led approach, where we try to show students what potential ENVSE jobs entail. This happens through guest speakers who describe what the daily life of an environmental engineer is like. The purpose of SESE is also to introduce students to the faculty of EMS so that everyone has more connections and more opportunities. The main goal is to publicize Environmental Systems Engineering to industry, corporations, and the Penn State Community.
Fall 2024–Spring 2025 Officers
- President: David Zullo, dmz5295@psu.edu
- Vice President: Raya Pauling, rayapauling@psu.edu
- Secretary: Anushka Pillay, ajp7201@psu.edu
- Treasurer: Amanda Kulak, arkulak@psu.edu
- Public Relations: Jackie Rawa, jaclyn@psu.edu
Faculty Advisor
Associated Links
Organization Objectives/Description
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) is a professional organization whose purpose is to encourage future petroleum and natural gas industry members. We strive to bring students, faculty, professional alumni, and distinguished members of the industry together to network. Members attend conferences all over the world. SPE is a space where the younger students can learn from the more experienced students through mentoring and tutoring.
Fall 2025–Spring 2026 Officers
- President: Gabby Miller, gmm6099@psu.edu
- Vice President: Said Al Balushi, ssa5555@psu.edu
- Treasurer: Morgan Overman, mjo5631@psu.edu
- Membership Chairperson: Abdulelah Al Ahmed, axa6360@psu.edu
- Secretary: Abdullah Al-Abri
- Social Activities Chairperson: Layan Alayedh
- Communications and Outreach Chairperson: Sabrina Knox