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COMP 270: Technical Writing for Engineers

Professional Organizations

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
The world's largest educational and scientific computing society; focused on advancing computing as a science and a profession.

ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education)
ASEE is a nonprofit organization of individuals and institutions committed to furthering education in engineering and engineering technology.

ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
ASME is a not-for-profit membership organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing, career enrichment, and skills development across all engineering disciplines, toward a goal of helping the global engineering community develop solutions to benefit lives and livelihoods.

IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
The world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology.

NSPE (National Society of Professional Engineers)
The only national organization committed to addressing the professional concerns of licensed PEs across all disciplines.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
ACM, the world's largest computing society, supports the professional growth of its members by providing opportunities for life-long learning, career development, and professional networking. The ACM also has many special interest groups focused on specific interests including SIGCSE (Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) and SIGCHI (Special Interest Group for Computer-Human Interaction.)

ALISE (Association for Library and Information Science Education)
ALISE is a non-profit organization that serves as the intellectual home of faculty, staff, and students in library and information science, and allied disciplines. 

ASIS&T (Association for Information Science and Technology)
ASIS&T is a non-profit membership organization for information professionals. ASIS&T sponsors an annual conference as well as several serial publications, including the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and the association's Bulletin. The association connects job seekers with potential employers; and continuing education programs for information professionals.

IEEE The world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. The IEEE has many sub sections speaking to specific interests (including the IEEE Computer Society, which sponsors workshops and conferences, publishes a variety of peer-reviewed literature, operates technical committees, and develops IEEE computing standards. As well as the IEEE FIE Frontiers in Education, which hosts a major international conference about educational innovations and research in engineering and computing.) 

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 
Includes a special interest section on Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science.
Researchers in this area have established important connections with mainstream areas of pure and applied mathematics, and research techniques are drawn from a range of fields, including algebra, topology, geometry, probability, analysis, and logic.

IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
The world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology.

IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology)
To inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community, supporting technology innovation to meet the needs of society.

(SPIE) International Society for Optics and Photonics
An international society advancing an interdisciplinary approach to the science and application of light.

ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
The world's largest educational and scientific computing society; focused on advancing computing as a science and a profession.

AES (Audio Engineering Society)
The only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology.

EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute)
Nonprofit organization focused on addressing challenges in electricity.

American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM)
ASEM is the society that speaks for the profession of engineering management across the world.

IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society
Encompasses the management sciences and practices required for defining, implementing, and managing engineering and technology.

American Society of Biomechanics

To encourage and foster the exchange of information and ideas among biomechanists working in different disciplines and fields of application, biological sciences, exercise and sports science, health sciences, ergonomics and human factors, and engineering and applied science, and to facilitate the development of biomechanics as a basic and applied science.

Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES)
BMES (the Biomedical Engineering Society) is the professional society for students, faculty, researcher and industry working in the broad area of biomedical engineering. BMES is the leading biomedical engineering society in the United States and was founded on February 1, 1968 "to promote the increase of biomedical engineering knowledge and its utilization."

European Society of Biomechanics (ESB)
Our goal is to encourage research, disseminate knowledge and promote progress in Biomechanics.

International Society of Biomechanics (ISB)
The ISB promotes and supports international contacts amongst scientists, the dissemination of knowledge, and the activities of national organizations in the field of biomechanics.

SBE (Society for Biological Engineering)
The Society for Biological Engineering (SBE), an AlChE Technological Community, is a global organization of leading engineers and scientists dedicated to advancing the integration of biology with engineering.

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