Mechanical Engineering: Professional Societies

• Acoustical Society of America - ASA (https://acousticalsociety.org/)
• American Clean Power Association (https://cleanpower.org/)
• American Indian Science and Engineering Society - AISES (https://www.aises.org/)
• American Society of Biomechanics http://www.asb-biomech.org/)
• American Society for Engineering Education - ASEE (http://www.asee.org/)
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers - ASHRAE (https://www.ashrae.org/)
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers - ASME (http://www.asme.org/)
• American Society for Nondestructive Testing (https://www.asnt.org/)
• American Society of Professional Engineers - ASPE (https://www.as-pe.org/)
• American Society for Testing Materials - ASTM (https://www.astm.org/)
• American Solar Energy Society (https://ases.org/)
• American Welding Society - AWS (https://www.aws.org/)
• Association of Energy Engineers - AEE (https://www.aeecenter.org/)
• Combustion Institute (https://www.combustioninstitute.org/)
• National Society of Black Engineers - NSBE (https://www.nsbe.org/)
• National Society of Professional Engineers - NSPE (https://www.nspe.org/)
• Society of Automotive Engineers - SAE International (https://www.sae.org/)
• Society for Experimental Mechanics - SEM (https://sem.org/)
• Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers - SHPE (https://www.shpe.org/)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers - SME (https://www.sme.org/)
• Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers - STLE (https://www.stle.org/)
• Society of Women Engineers - SWE (https://swe.org/)
• Vibration Institute (https://www.vi-institute.org/

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) (https://www.imeche.org/)

Networking with one's fellow scientists and engineers is extremely important for personal and professional development.  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.