The Chair or designated representatives serve on the Student Engineers Council and the Civil Engineering Student Advisory Board. Each society sends a free publication on a quarterly or monthly basis to members. MTS sponsors the Outstanding Ocean Engineering Student Award each year. All Ocean Engineering students are strongly encouraged to join the student chapters. Faculty and industry speakers are frequently invited to the monthly meetings.
Students organize field trips usually once a year.
May. Operating funds are provided by the national societies and through student fund raising efforts such as T-shirt and engineering paper sales. The student members also represent the Ocean Engineering Program at Career Day, JETS Day and other similar events directed towards the recruiting and providing information to Texas high school students. Junior and Senior Ocean Engineering students are considered for induction based upon their cumulative GPR and class rank. New inductees are notified each Fall and Spring Semester. Officers are elected each academic year.