Cooper Union

ASCE Student Chapter Receives Distinguished Chapter Award

POSTED ON: May 8, 2017

The Cooper Union ASCE Student Chapter has been awarded the annual 2017 ASCE Distinguished Chapter Award for being the most outstanding student organization in Region 1.

This award is given to the most outstanding student chapter within a region in the US, based on the activities documented in the Student Chapter's 2016 annual report.

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Founded by inventor, industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper in 1859, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art offers education in art, architecture and engineering, as well as courses in the humanities and social sciences.
“My feelings, my desires, my hopes, embrace humanity throughout the world,” Peter Cooper proclaimed in a speech in 1853. He looked forward to a time when, “knowledge shall cover the earth as waters cover the great deep.”
From its beginnings, Cooper Union was a unique institution, dedicated to founder Peter Cooper's proposition that education is the key not only to personal prosperity but to civic virtue and harmony.
Peter Cooper wanted his graduates to acquire the technical mastery and entrepreneurial skills, enrich their intellects and spark their creativity, and develop a sense of social justice that would translate into action.