Sigma Phi Delta
(Founded at University of Southern California on April 11, 1924)
"The object of the Sigma Phi Delta Fraternity shall be to promote the advancement of the Engineering Profession; to foster the advancement of Engineering Education; to instill a greater spirit of cooperation among Engineering students and organizations; to inculcate in its members the highest ideals of Virtuous manhood, good citizenship, obedience to law, and brotherhood; and to encourage excellence in scholarship."
"The founding of the Sigma Phi Delta Fraternity on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles was the outgrowth of a third attempt to establish a professional engineering fraternity on that campus. Two previous attempts had been made to organize an engineering fraternity at the University but both groups thus formed had terminated into general, or social, fraternities."