Student Organizations (Clubs)
LAU students can participate in clubs that hold student-led activities around the year. Here you will find a list of all active clubs and how to form new ones. As an LAU student, you can participate in any number of clubs — as many as your interests.
Of even more relevance to you: Engineering students have formed the following clubs that are affiliated with professional organizations.
Aerospace & Electronics Club (IEEE)
- Expose students to aerospace through interactive, educational activities.
- Offer inclusive opportunities focused on engineering.
- Organize hands-on challenges, simulations and workshop like CFD, AI in aviation, drone efficiency.
President: Maroun Eid
Vice President: Sleiman El Hajj
Secretary: Clara Mitri
Treasurer: Charbel Noujeim
American Institute of Chemical Engineers Club (AIChE)
Promoting Chemical Engineering and holding activities that benefit the members socially and academically.
President: Michel Abboud
Vice President: Carolina Hakam
Secretary: Lana Kassem
Treasurer: Abbas Al Dilati
American Society for Civil Engineers Club (ASCE)
The American Society for Civil Engineers Club:
Stays on top of issues facing civil engineers and the civil engineering profession by organizing trips to real-life projects and holding seminars focused on future opportunities for civil engineers in Lebanon, the Gulf and worldwide.
Activities include technical and field trips, seminars, competitions, an academic assistance career center given approval from the department chair, promoting collaboration by linking up students with alumni and international portal.
President: Elie Chaker
Vice President: Maria Ishac
Secretary: Assad Assaf
Treasurer: Chloe Noun
asce.club@lau.edu.lb
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Club (ASME)
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Club:
Provides an opportunity for students to promote their leadership skills and soft skills, fellowship, technical skills, interaction with other student sections, interaction with the faculty members as well as providing students’ academic assistance in collaboration with department dean &/or chair.
Conferences, seminars, workshops, competitions, dinners with faculty, field trips in and out of campus (technical or professional purposes and to increase interaction with faculty). P.S: the activities might be in or out of campus but only for LAU mechanical engineering students.
President: Bryan Bou Younes
Vice President: Stephanie Naous
Secretary: Joya Abboud
Treasurer: Marc Bassoul Khoury
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Club (AICS)
The Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Club:
Brings together students interested in AI, CS, and related fields from computer science and engineering to social sciences (e.g. psychology) and neural sciences (e.g. biology).
Members contemplate and debate current and future developments in this inter-disciplinary field, considered one of the newest and most attractive fields of scientific study in the early 21st century.
President: Mohamad Fawaz
Vice President: Mouaz Amoud
Secretary: Lana Al Fliti
Treasurer: Charbel Albateh
ASHRAE Club
- ASHRAE stands for the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
- The club intends to introduce students to real life applications related to ASHRAE in Mechanical Engineering. Their objective is to inform student about the basics of HVAC design, plumbing and firefighting.
President: Georges Saad
Vice President: Maribel Al Sarrouh
Secretary: Maribel Al Sarrouh
Treasurer: Tony Nehme
Ashraeclub@lau.edu.lb
Association of Energy Engineers Club (AEE)
The Association of Energy Engineers Club:
Raises awareness among the members of LAU students about energy conservation and environment protection.
Conducts energy conservation and energy efficiency projects.
- In the News: The LAU AEE club has received the “Best Chapter Meeting” and “Outstanding Student Chapter Member” awards from the Association of Energy Engineers for 2023.
President: Georges Maacaroun
Vice President: Bechara Saliba
Secretary: Cedra El Zein
Treasurer: Hossam Tohme
Developer Student Club
The Developer Student club:
- Creates Impact by bridging the gap between coding theory and practice.
- Exposes students to new developer technologies through hands-on workshops and informational talks.
- Enhances a collaborative environment by building solutions for local community and business problems.
- Hands-on workshops teaching programming languages, technologies, and solving coding challenges.
President: Georgio Nassar
Vice President: Charbel Albateh
Secretary: Nour El Rifaii
Treasurer: Nadine Al Hawwat
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Club
The Engineers Without Borders Club:
Seeks to engage engineering students from different backgrounds in helping the disadvantaged communities of Lebanon and beyond.
Provides a unique professional and social experience to the members through the implementation of sustainable, environmentally friendly, and economical engineering projects.
President: Roy El Khoury
Vice President: Kiryl Irani
Secretary: Peter Azzi
Treasurer: Ziad Kassab
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Club
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Club:
Promotes IEEE membership and activities on campus
Participates in regional activities of the club, and keeps members updated with the new technologies and scientific discoveries related to this major.
Holds conferences to enrich members’ knowledge about new technologies and innovations.
Unites ELE & COE students in one club to keep up with recent club activities and held activities.
President: Jana Monzer
Vice President: Moussa El Shami
Secretary: Dani Abouhamdan
Treasurer: Jennifer El khoury
ieeeclub.beirut@lau.edu.lb
Institute of Industrial Engineering (IIE) Club
This club is inactive. Would you like to reactivate it? Get in touch with the Student Life Office.
The Institute of Industrial Engineers Club:
Plans, organizes and provides learning activities by communicating with industries for the members of our student chapter.
President: Thea Saad
Vice President: Hiba Rahme
Secretary: Serge Haddad
Treasurer: Jean Bou Habib
Institute of Industrial and System Engineers Club (IISE)
The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Club:
Plans and provides learning activities by communicating with industries for members of our student chapter.
Organizes professional field trips, seminars and student development weekends.
President: Jhonny Harb
Vice President: Marilyn Smayra
Secretary: Vanessa Jifetjian
Treasurer: Patrick Eid
IISE.club@lau.edu.lb
Logistics Automation Club
This club is inactive. Would you like to reactivate it? Get in touch with us.
Students interested in Logistics Automation activities being developed in the BMW Group.
The Logistics Automation Club:
- Focuses on housing students planning to do their BMW internships in Germany, and helps members share opportunities and experiences and maintain strong connections throughout their carriers.
- Helps promote joint LAU-BMW activities, such as the VIRA (Vision Intelligence and Robotics Applications) workshops.
President: Ghady Eid
Vice President: Vanessa Hanna
Secretary: Elissa Diab
Treasurer: Maher Abou Dargham
logisticsautomation@lau.edu.lb
Petroleum Engineering Club
The Petroleum Engineering Club:
- Engages LAU petroleum engineering students in major activities of relevance to their major.
President: Andrew Al Rahy
Vice President: Chayna Faddoul
Secretary: Charbel Mdawar
Treasurer: Farah Al Andary
Power and Energy Club (IEEE)
To gain knowledge from experts in the Power & Energy field, enhance their skills, and network with professionals through discussions and site visits, to help boost students career opportunities, as well as learning about the latest technologies.
President: Moustafa Hammoud
Vice President: Charbel Kaddoum
Secretary: Lourdes Gerges
Treasurer: Kevin El Murr
IEEE.PowerEnergy@lau.edu.lb
Robotics Club (IEEE)
The Robotics Club:
Serves as an educational and fun workshop for LAU undergraduate and graduate students who wish to pursue their interest in robotics.
Creates a strong robotics community by bringing students, faculty and departments from the School of Engineering together promoting the study and practice of robotics.
Holds annual competitions that allow members to develop a variety of skills in engaging team based engineering competitions.
Organizes field trips to companies to show how robots are helping humans, and lectures about robots, and workshops and training on how to build robots.
President: Elian Rezk
Vice President: Hassan Bitar
Secretary: Serge El Skaf
Treasurer: Edward Mouawad
Women in Engineering Club
The Robotics Club:
- Promotes women engineers and inspire women to follow their academic interests in engineering career.
President: Hiba El Baalbaki
Vice President: Valerie Naufal
Secretary: Nathalie Jouljian
Treasurer: Nour El Rifaii