Triangle Fraternity

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Triangle Fraternity is a social fraternity, limiting its recruitment of members to male students majoring in engineering, architecture, and the physical, mathematical, biological, and computational sciences. It is the only member of the North-American Interfraternity Conference to limit its membership recruitment to these majors.

Triangle Fraternity began to organize at the University of Illinois in the fall of 1906 and was incorporated by the state of Illinois on April 15, 1907, which is celebrated each year as Founders' Day.

There are currently 30 chapters and 2 colonies of Triangle Fraternity in the U.S., mostly in the Midwest. The headquarters is currently located in Plainfield, Indiana in an historic building that was built as a Carnegie library in 1912 [link].

Because Triangle's focus is on men of mostly similar fields of study, members are more likely to be able to help each other succeed in their college studies. This focus also helps with professional networking later in life, particularly as there are alumni groups scattered throughout the world.

Notable Triangle Alumni include

Charles H. Bowman, former chairman and CEO of BP Americas
Stanton R. Cook, former chairman, president and CEO of the Tribune Company
Jim Geringer, former governor of the U.S. state of Wyoming
Jay Hammond, former governor of the U.S. state of Alaska
Fred R. Kappel, former chairman of the board of AT&T
Steven L. Miller, former CEO of Shell Oil Company
Michael Morhaime, president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment
Edward McCracken, former CEO of Silicon Graphics
Ellison Onizuka, Space Shuttle Challenger astronaut

Chapter List

Date chapter installed in parentheses

Colorado State University (May 27, 1967)
Illinois Institute of Technology (May 26, 1923)
Iowa State University (April 25, 1964)
Kansas State University (September 7, 1964)
Marquette University (April 24, 1937)
Michigan State University (January 8, 1955)
Michigan Technological University (April 16, 1988)
Milwaukee School of Engineering (January 23, 1965)
Northern Illinois University (October 9, 1993)
Pennsylvania State University (March 3, 1928)
Purdue University (April 8, 1909)
Rochester Institute of Technology (February 4, 1967)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (May 4, 1968)
South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (September 27, 1930)
Texas A&M University (colony since 2002)
The Ohio State University (February 2, 1911)
Tri-State University (April 15, 1989)
University of California, Los Angeles (December 7, 1957)
University of Cincinnati (August 6, 1921)
University of Connecticut (recolonizing chapter)(March 27, 1982)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (April 15, 1907)
University of Kansas (January 8, 1927)
University of Kentucky (October 31, 1920)
University of Louisville (March 22, 1941)
University of Maryland Baltimore County (June 4, 2005)
University of Michigan (February 21, 1925)
University of Minnesota (October 29, 1922)
University of Missouri, Rolla (December 10, 1927)
University of Nebraska, Lincoln (March 16, 1963)
University of Oklahoma (November 18, 1979)
University of Toledo (May 22, 1971)
University of Wisconsin-Madison (February 7, 1913)
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (April 11, 1970)

External links

[Triangle Fraternity - The Fraternity of Engineers, Architects, and Scientists]

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