Honorary members are selected on the basis of successful achievement in biological and agricultural engineering. Graduate members may be chosen from outstanding graduate students in biological and agricultural engineering. Chi Epsilon therefore fosters the development and exercise of sound traits of character and technical ability among civil engineers toward an even higher standard of professional service. Chi Epsilon retains as its motto the Greek letters Chi Delta Chi, which formed the name of the junior society founded in 1922 at the University of Illinois. These are the three phases of every creative project.
Conception requires imagination and intelligence.
Design requires education and practical experience. Construction requires energy, determination, and perseverance. In these functions, adherence to the principles of Chi Epsilon will serve an engineer well. Membership in Chi Epsilon is based upon scholarship, character, and sociability. The candidate must rank in the upper one-third of the civil engineering class.