Dedicated to the purpose of maintaining
and promoting the status of civil engineering as an ideal
profession, Chi-Epsilon was organized to recognize the
characteristics of the individual civil engineer deemed
to be fundamental to the successful pursuit of an engineering
career, and to aid in the development of those characteristics
in the civil engineering student. Engineering, the application
of scientific principles to the practical needs of society,
is assuming a constantly increasing responsibility for
the well-being of all people, and thus calling for competence
of the highest order. This responsibility can be discharged
only by a professional group whose members are possessed
of a good basic technical ability, intelligence, moral
integrity, and effective social poise in their relationship
with the larger community of which they are part. To contribute
to the improvement of the profession, Chi Epsilon fosters
the development and exercise of sound traits of character
and technical ability among civil engineers, and its members,
by precept and example, toward an ever higher standard
of professional service.
