Professional Societies
Professional organizations are available for almost any career field. You may join while enrolled in school or after graduation. However, fees are greatly reduced for students who are still in college. In addition to providing information about your chosen field, professional organizations enhance your professional development and provide endless networking opportunities. Associations may also provide monetary returns such as tuition assistance through private grants and fellowships.
Aerospace
- Aerospace Industries Association
- American Astronautical Society
- American Institute of Aeronauticsand Astronautics
- Society of Flight Test Engineers
Agricultural
Architectural
- American Society of Heating,Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
- Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)
- International Council for Building Research Studies and Documentation
- The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Bioengineering
- American Chemical Society
- American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers
- American Society For Microbiology
- Biomedical Engineering Society
- Biophysical Society
- IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- Institute of Biological Engineering
- Society for Biological Engineering
- Society of Industrial Microbiology
Chemical
- American Chemical Society
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers
- Association of Consulting Chemists and Chemical Engineers
- Electrochemical Society
Civil
Computer
Electrical and Electronics
Environmental
- Air and Waste Management Association
- American Water Works Association
- National Ground Water Association
Geological / Geophysical
- American Geologic Institute (AGI)
- Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG)
- Environmental and Engineering Geophysical Society (EEGS)
- Geological Society of America (GSA)
- Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG)
Industrial
Information Technology
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- IEEE Computer Society
Manufacturing
Mechanical
Naval or Marine
Nuclear
- American Nuclear Society
- Canadian Nuclear Society
- European Nuclear Society
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- Society of Nuclear Medicine