There are three student chapters located within the Central PA Section. They include Bucknell University, Penn State University and Penn College. The objective of the ASCE Student Chapters is to help prepare themselves for entry into the Civil Engineering profession and society. Student Chapters of ASCE help civil engineering students begin professional contacts and associations, which continued through life, are so valuable to the practicing engineer in serving mankind and the engineering profession more effectively.

               The chapter is a good medium for exercising principles of personal and public relations. For example, chapter members prepare reports to the Society, present and discuss papers, conduct chapter activities, hold office, request and entertain guest speakers and visit engineering works under construction. These activities contribute to broad personal development by stimulating an early professional consciousness while the student is still preoccupied with techniques.