Sigma Lambda Chi - Eta Chapter
Chartered at Arizona State in 1965, Sigma Lambda Chi now features just under 40 actively
participating members. Membership in SLC is by invitation only, and reserved for those
students who show excellent academic performance and involvement in the Construction
program at ASU. While membership may be inclusive, the services offered by SLC are
directed towards all students in the school. Current club activities include:
- Ongoing Professionalism Series, with seminars on business ethics, marketing,
presentation skills, and other topics designed to help Del E. Webb School students mature professionally.
- Annual Resume book compiling the resumes of Del E. Webb School students for distribution to industry.
- Organizing Del E. Webb School activities such as each semester’s Welcome Back
BBQ and Graduation Banquet for Seniors.
- An ever increasing number of duties ranging from mentoring incoming Freshman students to renting lockers on campus for use by students.
Purpose
The fundamental purpose of Sigma Lambda Chi is to provide recognition to outstanding students in construction curricula. Sigma Lambda Chi is the society that offers students the opportunity to be recognized locally and internationally for their academic accomplishments as a construction major.
Aside from the fundamental purpose, Sigma Lambda Chi has three objectives:
- The first is to render service to the major field of study. This is accomplished by active student participation in tasks and events that affect the construction program that houses the local Sigma Lambda Chi chapter.
- The second objective is to develop good relations among campus, industry, and the public. Undertaking projects which further this purpose is expected of members of Sigma Lambda Chi.
- The third objective is to recognize outstanding professional individuals in construction. Sigma Lambda Chi has honorary membership classifications that can be bestowed upon individuals who deserve special recognition because of their contribution to construction education or some facet of the construction industry.
History
Sigma Lambda Chi is a society that strongly holds to, and builds upon, the history and traditions upon which it was founded.
Sigma Lambda Chi was founded by a group of individuals from Michigan State University, in the Housing and Merchandising curriculum who were interested in the enhancement of the construction profession. The first chapter, Alpha Chapter, was established on April 30, 1949. The Alpha Chapter developed the general guidelines by which the society is governed today.
Since that time, the society has grown to include forty-seven chapters across the United States and Australia, with a total individual membership of over eighty-five hundred.
Honorary members of Sigma Lambda Chi are top individuals from industry and academia who have demonstrated outstanding leadership in the construction industry or construction education, and who believe in the goals and ideals of Sigma Lambda Chi.
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