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Professional Societies
These are web pages for various of SME International's sister socities. They may be useful for hints for finding information
about various technologies or for on-line training.
- SME International, our parent society.
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery): Mainly concerned with information technology. They sponsor Special-Interest Groups for such areas as electronic
commerce, computer graphics, artificial intelligence, embedded systems, computer interfaces, simulatins, and security. There's
also a somewhat interesting magazine about computing.
- ACS (American Chemical Society): News about the chemical industry. It may be useful to you for information about plastics and environmental
issues.
- ACrS (American Ceramic Society): Information and services for the full range of ceramics from inductrial to artsy-fartsy. They have what appears
to be an excellent ceramics-properties database and useful links to other sites. There are also links to books and magazines
that the Society offers for sale and to news stories about cermaics.
- AES (Abrasive Engineering Society): Info about grinding, abrasives, and water-jet cutting. They offer books about these subjects and news items
related to abrasives.
- AFE (Association for Facilities Engineering): Resources for plant management and maintenance. They have a magazine with what appear to be practical articles
(e.g., an article about lightning protection, Oct. 2003), links to news articles of interest, some useful looking books, and
links to OSHA information. There are also a few on-line courses, mainly concerning the Internet (Oct 2003).
- APMP (Association of Proposal Management Professionals): This seems to be a small society (c. 1600 members) dedicated to writing good business proposals. The site wasn't
working as of 1 Oct 2003, but we find preview the Washington, DC, chapter's site.
- ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers): There may be some useful information here related to plant design/construction, transportation, and environmental
issues. Note: this society strongly supports medical-style licensure for engineers and would deny us the use of the title
"engineer".
- ASHRAE (American Soc. of Heating, Refrig., and Air-Cond. Engineers): This might be a source of useful information about indoor air quality and books about HVAC design if you had
to do it for yourself. However, the site had an annoying tendency to kill your reviewers web brouser.
- ASM International (American Society of Metals): A good source of information about metals and other materials. Buy or subscribe to electronic version of ASM
Handbook with exhaustive information about metals. Buy other books about using metals. Read on-line magazines if you're a
member ($102/yr). They also have a few courses.
- ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers): Representing the traditional engineering discipline most closely related to manufacturing. Their web site has
lots of information that could be useful.
- AWS (American Welding Society): A good source for info about developments in welding. They have a nice on-line magazine, training and certification,
books and technical papers about welding (many dealing with environmental and reglatory issues).
- ISA (Instrument Society of American): Mainly concerned with controls engineering with many direct applications to manufacturing. Information about
certification through ISA and licensure (ossification of controls engineering?) with study guides for the exams. They also
have a bookstore that may supplement what we can get from SME and links to technical information about controls.
- PMI (Project Management Instrument): A professional association for project managers. They have the usual services: magazine, bookstore, training
seminars, web courses, and certification. If you really need training in this area, your editor suspects you'd be best off
looking for a course at a local university; Vanderbilt, e.g., has an excellent course.
- SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers): http://www.sae.org/servlets/index
- SPIE (Society for Optical Engineering): Resources and information for a huge range of applications of optics. Areas of interest include machine vision,
applications of lasers, military application of optics and machine vision, microelectronics manufacturing, and the latest
applications in astronomy. The Society sponsors a wide range of conferences in amazingly diverse areas and publishes proceedings
that are often useful for finding out about current techniques and technologies.
- SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers): Good resources for work with plastics. They have a very extensive collection of books for sale and targeted
training materials.
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