Okay well to answer that.
CMU’s student chapter of IDSA could be named something else (we’ve seriously considered this in the past since being called IDSA has no real benefit but the officialness of the name) and it would be the same thing. We have active members from all disciplines: ID, CD, UX, and grad MPD (master of product development) who used to be engineers. So that’s the closest I know to what you are describing, bepid. We also work closely with the AIGA on campus.
It’s useful for us as students because we get to do stuff outside the context of class. It’s a nice place to chill, eat pizza, and talk about design. We also go on trips (just went to Toronto last week). We started hosting Critique Clinics where we bash on a design and redesign it ourselves (what we just did with the IDSA.org website).
I’ve not encountered anything outside of that, though.