Upsilon Pi Epsilon (Honor Society for Computing and Information Disciplines) was founded in 1967 at Texas A&M University. It recognizes academic excellence at both the graduate and undergraduate levels in computing and information disciplines. Only colleges that offer a degree in a computing-science-related discipline may obtain a charter for a UPE chapter. UPE is the first and only international honor society in computing and information disciplines. The UT chapter is housed within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.