Society of Physics Students

Zone 16, Arizona State University Chapter

The Society of Physics Students (SPS) is a professional association for students that operates within the American Institute of Physics, and is represented by more than 700 chapters at colleges and universities across the United States.

The SPS exists to help students interested in physics transform themselves into contributing members of the professional community. Course work develops only one range of skills. Other skills needed to flourish professionally include effective communication and personal interactions, leadership experience, establishing a personal network of contacts, presenting scholarly work in professional meetings and journals, and outreach services to the campus and local communities. The SPS offers the opportunity to add these important enrichments to your experience.*

* From the SPS National Web site: http://www.spsnational.org/.

Membership to the Arizona State University chapter of SPS is open to anyone interested in physics. Besides physics majors, members include majors in chemistry, computer science, engineering, geology, mathematics, medicine and other fields.

ASU SPSers participate in meetings, projects and activities including trips each semester to the SPS Zone 16 Meeting, and other locations such as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Palo Verde Generating Station and Lowell Observatory. SPSers are also involved in Department of Physics colloquia and seminars, department picnics, new student orientations for physics students and homecoming.

A special study room/lounge in the Physical Science F-Building is reserved specifically for SPS members.

“SPS has been an integral part of my time as an ASU physics major. The friends, fun, and studying...I don’t know what I would have done without it.” — Chris Friedline, SPS President

For more details, contact spsers@googlegroups.com or visit SPS in the Physical Sciences F-Wing, room 478 (SPS Room).