The purpose of Theta Tau is to develop and maintain a high standard of professional interest among its members and to unite them in a strong bond of fraternal fellowship . Engineering in short is design under constraint . Engineering involves designing a graceful solution to a problem with sometimes complex constraints, including physical constraints, safety constraints, economic constraints, and ethical constraints. Engineering relates theory to methodology by providing applications to the arts , humanities, and the sciences.
Engineers make the world work.
Theta Tau is a national professional coeducational engineering fraternity . Membership is open to students of engineering. Theta Tau is the oldest and largest professional engineering fraternity. There are 40 chapters nationwide. Pi Chapter is located at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.