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. It is clear from the goals that Theta Tau is a technical society, honor society, service fraternity, and social fraternity all tied into one group. The chapter enjoyed a rich history of interesting and influential brothers and maintained close ties to the engineering school.