Proposed SPS Goals and Activities:
SPS operates through activities which promote learning about
physics, enjoyable events in which members socially interact
with each other and teachers of physics. This student-operated
organization exists at almost every major University in the US.
There are many activities that are sponsored by SPS:
Many SPS chapters at Universities nationwide hold local
chapter meetings. At each, students interact with one another
and discuss physics-related topics. There will be a special
SPS Lounge available for use by SPS members.
- Student-Faculty Luncheons
Students and faculty members often believe they would do
well to get to know one another in an atmosphere more relaxed
than in a classroom. The Student-Faculty Luncheons sponsored
by SPS are an opportunity for that to occur. SPS can invite
one or more faculty members (not just from Wayne State, but
other Universities as well; it's especially important for those
who want to go to grad school after college) to a brown bag
lunch where undergraduates and grad students can converse with
these faculty members and learn more about them.
Members of SPS chapters can take road trips as a group.
The WSU chapter is able to do the same. Places like the museums
of Detroit and Chicago, research labs at Ford, GM and other private
companies in Michigan, and national labs like Argonne and Fermilab (Chicago),
and the NASA Glenn Research Center (Cleveland) are possible destinations.