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Networking with one's fellow scientists and engineers is extremely important for personal and professional development.  And even in the world of Web social networks, professional societies are the most important means of doing so.  Professional societies sponsor the conferences you will wish to attend or at which you will present papers.  They publish journals which you will read, submit papers to, or serve as a reviewer or editor.  They set professional and educational standards.  They provide job and career services for their members.

This section is for societies and associations headquartered in the United States.  In most cases, their membership is international is scope.

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) (http://www.aiche.org/)
  • Local Sections - the regional sections of AIChE
    • Southern California Section (Techically, does not include Santa Barbara County, but it's the closest one.)
  • Technical Divisions and Forums
    • Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (CRE) 
    • Chemical Engineering & the Law Forum (ChE&L) 
    • Computational Molecular Science & Engineering Forum (CoMSEF) 
    • Computing & Systems Technology Division (CAST) 
    • Education Division (EDU) 
    • Environmental Division (ENV) 
    • Food, Pharmaceutical & Bioengineering Division (FP & BE) 
    • Forest Bioproducts Division (FBP) 
    • Fuels & Petrochemicals Division (F & P) 
    • Management Division (MGT) 
    • Materials Engineering & Sciences Division (MESD) 
    • Nanoscale Science Engineering Forum (NSEF)  
    • North American Mixing Forum (NAMF) 
    • Nuclear Engineering Division (NE) 
    • Particle Technology Forum (PTF) 
    • Process Development Division (PD) 
    • Safety & Health Division (S & H) 
    • Separations Division (SEP) 
    • Sustainable Engineering Forum (SEF) 
    • Transport and Energy Processes Division (TEP)
  • Technical Societies - Specialty groups forming partnerships with industry
    • Center for Chemical Process Safety
    • Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems
    • Design Institute for Physical Properties (DIPPR)
    • Institute for Sustainability
    • Safety and Chemical Engineering Education
    • Society for Biological Engineering
  • Other Key Links
    • AIChE Student Resources
      • UCSB Student Chapter of AIChE
    • AIChE Career Resources
    • AIChE Conferences
    • AIChE Publications
• Air and Waste Management Association
• American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists
• American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org/)
  • Local Sections - the regional sections of ACS
    • California Los Padres (includes Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties)
  • Technical Divisions - subject specialties within ACS; they organize most programs at national meetingsDivisions listed below are the ones most relevant to chemical engineering.
    
    • Agricultural & Food Chemistry
    • Agrochemicals
    • Biochemical Technology
    • Business Development & Management
    • Catalysis Science and Technology (probationary)
    • Cellulose and Renewable Materials
    • Chemical Health & Safety
    • Chemical Toxicology
    • Environmental Chemistry
    • Fuel Chemistry
    • Industrial & Engineering Chemistry
    • Nuclear Chemistry & Technology
    • Petroleum Chemistry
    • Polymer Chemistry
    • Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering
    • Rubber
    • Small Chemical Businesses
  • Secretariats (Interest groups that cross traditional division boundaries)
    • Biotechnology
    • Materials Chemistry
    • Macromolecular
    • Catalysis Secretariat
  • Other Member Groups
    • ACS Network - members-only
    • ACS Student Chapters
    • Senior Chemists Committee
    • Women Chemists Committee (WCC)
    • Younger Chemists Committee (YCC)
  • Other Key Links
    • ACS Careers
    • ACS Meetings
    • ACS Publications
    • Chemical Abstracts Service
• American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers
• American Petroleum Institute
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) (http://www.asee.org/)
• National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
• Omega Chi Epsilon - national honor society for chemical engineering
• Soap and Detergent Association
• Society of Petroleum Engineers
  
• TAPPI (Technical Association of the PUlp and Paper Industry)
  

• International
  • Asian-Pacific Confederation of Chemical Engineers
  • European Federation of Chemical Engineering (English, French and German)
  • European Membrane Society
  • International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists
  • International Union of Pure and Applied Chemisry (IUPAC)
  • International Zeolite Association
  • Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)
  • World Chemical Engineering Council
    
• Argentina
  • Asociación Argentina de Ingenieros Químicos (Spanish)
• Brazil
  • Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Química (Portuguese)
• Canada
  • Association of the Chemical Profession of Ontario (English and French)
  • Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (English and French)
  • Chemical Institute of Canada (English and French)
    • Includes the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering and the Canadian Society for Chemical Technology
• Colombia
  • Asociación Colombiana de Ingenieros Químicos
• Croatia
  • Hrvatsko Društvo Kemijskih Inzenjera i Tehnologa (Croatian and English)
• Czech Republic
  • Česká společnost chemického inženýrství (Czech and English)
• Denmark
  • Kemiingeniørgruppen (Danish and English)
• Ethiopia
  • Ethiopian Society of Chemical Engineers (English)
• France
  • Société Française de Génie des Procédés
• Germany
  • DECHEMA Gesellschaft für Chemische Technik und Biotechnologie (German and English)
• India
  • Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers
    
• Israel
  • Israel Institute of Chemical Engineers (English)
• Italy
  • Associazione Italiana Di Ingegneria Chimica (Italian and English)
• Japan
  • Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (Japanese and English)
• Korea (Republic of)
  • Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (Korean and English)
• Mexico
  • Instituto Mexicano de Ingenieros Químicos (Spanish)
    
• New Zealand
  • Society of Chemical Engineers, New Zealand
    
• Nigeria
  • Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (English)
• Philippines
  • Philippine Institute of Chemical Engineers
    
• South Africa
  • South African Institution of Chemical Engineers (English)
• Switzerland
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft der Verfahrens- und ChemieingenieurInnen (German)
• Thailand
  • Thai Institute of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry (Thai and English)
• United Kingdom
  • Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE)
    
• Uruguay
  • Asociación de Ingenieros Químicos del Uruguay (Spanish)