Put Your Student Chapter on the Web

Now that TMS OnLine is available on the World Wide Web (http://www.tms.org), students are encouraged to develop web pages for their chapters. Any pages developed may be submitted as part of a Chapter of Excellence contest entry, and the work shown will be considered in the judging. (Chapters without web pages will not be penalized.) If your college or university provides World Wide Web (WWW) server capabilities, you should create your page at your site and tell TMS how to access that information (i.e., send us the URL [uniform resource locator]). We'll then include that link in our WWW pages. If your school does not offer WWW server capability, then TMS will provide space on its server for your chapter's data, as long as you provide pages written in the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

The illustration on this page shows an idealized version of a student chapter home page, using the University of Florida chapter as an example. Important features of this page are the university logo (or some other graphic related to your department or university), a listing of the chapter officers, a link to the TMS Home Page (very important!), and information about the chapter's activities.

To add to the appeal of the web page, a chapter might elect to include links to useful information sources (both on- and off-campus), photos of the chapter officers and members, links to e-mail for all of the chapter's members, and descriptions of courses offered in the department.

Send your URLs, the prepared pages about your chapter, or requests for additional details to Mark C. Munson, TMS OnLine supervisor, via e-mail: mcmunson@tms.org; snail mail: TMS, 184 Thorn Hill Road, Warrendale, Pennsylvania 15086; or fax: (724) 776-3770.

This is an example of how a home page for a TMS student chapter could look. Why not develop one of your own?