Professional societies Engineers

RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES American Institnte of Chemical Engineers... 

A Professional Society for Environmental Scientists and Engineers and Related Disciplines Concerned with Environmental Quality... 

F. Galen Hodge, Ph.D. (Materials Engineering), P.E. Associate Director, Materials Technology Institute Registered Professional Corrosion Engineer (California) Fellow, American Society for Metals International Fellow, National Association of Corrosion Engineers... 

Professional societies could provide more funding and create more interest through promotion, for example, at professional society meetings and conferences or through society-sponsored journals, to place more emphasis on green chemistry and engineering. 

The tug-of-war between professionalism and public service on the one hand and serving the interests of large-scale business interests has shaped the social history of engineering in important ways (Layton, 1990), and it is likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future. As one examines different codes of ethics, we will see different emphases depending on whether a particular professional society is weighted toward a business or a professional model of engineering practice. 

AMERICAN CERAMIC SOCIETY (ACerS). Founded 1899. It has 12,000 members. A professional society of scientists, engineers, and plant operators interested in glass, ceramics-iiielal systems, cements, refractories, nuclear ceramics, white wares, electronics, and structural clay products. It is located at 65 Ceramic Dr., Columbus, OH 43214. http //www.acers.org/... 

Standard setting traditionally has been a function of professional and engineering societies and insurance companies which are in the business of making judgments on the risk being contemplated. Among these groups are ... 

How do they depend on a professional society, or contending professional societies as in the case of chemical engineering Without an association of the practitioners to define it, maintain it, and renew it, no profession can survive. 

There are still questions concerning the role of polymers in chemical engineering beyond the hospitality of the research environment. How fully integrated into our discipline will polymer research and education become Will the journals of our profession and the meetings of our professional society become more important, active forums for discussion of substantive technical issues in polymers, instead of the passive bulletin boards that they are now, serving mainly to give research exposure in the chemical engineering community Will course work in polymers move from elec-... 

There is a question as to whether some of the professional organizations could bring more attention to the issue that we are losing a lot of students during these transition stages. This could be an area for further attention by organizations such as ACS, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Hispanic professional societies, and African American professional societies. 

The miscellaneous group comprises publications of professional societies, such as the All-Union Engineering Society, All-Union Chemical Society, All-Union Mineralogical Society, Metallurgical Society, Society of Physiologists, Biochemists, and Pharmacologists, or the Society of Naturalists. 

Development of specialized equipment and systems for centralized literature processing activities. This trend has led individual organizations to devote much attention to engineering their private systems so that they will be compatible with foreseeable developments in centralized and wholesale literature encoding activities on the professional society level. 

This journal is published bimonthly by the Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE), a professional society covering all materials and processes, including plastics and plastic foams. Subscriptions are available from the SAMPE International Business Office, 843 West Glentana, P.O. Box 2459, Covina, CA 91722. A typical issue will have about six feature articles along with a number of features, including activities, news of SAMPE chapters, and materials news. 

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