ABOUT HKN

Eta Kappa Nu is a National Electrical and Computer Engineering Honor Society.  Eta Kappa Nu was founded in 1904 at the University of Illinois for electrical engineering students not just to stimulate and reward scholarship but to assist and encourage its members to grow professionally throughout their entire lives. Eta Kappa Nu now has chapters in over half of all the engineering schools in the United States. Eta Kappa Nu invites Juniors, Seniors, Graduate students and Professionals (e.g. Professors, leaders in the Field) into membership. Juniors in the top 25% of their class, Seniors in the top 33% of their class and graduate students in the top 33% of their class plus must be recommended by HKN advisor and EE Department chair.  History has shown that these are the students who later become leaders in the profession and in the community at large.  (Extracted from the National HKN Instructional Manual) 

Why is Eta Kappa Nu called HKN? 
In early Greece there was a philosopher, a scientist in our day, who discovered that if he rubbed a piece of amber with a cloth he experienced a phenomenon he could not explain. We know it as static electricity. 

The Greek name of amber is electron, spelled 

From this word the English language derives its name electricity'.  From this name Physicists and electrical engineers derive the words electron and electronic. And from this name we derive our name we use the first, the fourth and the last letters, namely, 

(from the National HKN Instructional Manual)

 What is Epsilon Mu all about? 
Epsilon Mu is the college chapter of Eta Kappa Nu at the University of Texas at Arlington. We promote scholarship by recognizing the achievements of our members. We also promote involvement in our community though many service projects.