Search Girls RISEnet

ENGINEERING CORNER

Engineering Sites

Professional Engineering Societies

An engineering society is a professional organization for engineers. Some focus on providing support to women and minorities, some are umbrella organizations that include many different disciplines; others are discipline-specific. These societies may not only provide mentors, but also allow museum practitioners to gain access to a myriad of resources, including scholarships, engineering activities, summer enrichment opportunities and internships.

Note that many engineering societies have student chapter, commonly found at universities or technical colleges, so check with your local institutions to find out what groups meet in your area.

Minority and Woman-Focused Societies

Umbrella Societies

  • American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES)
    AAES is the umbrella organization for engineering and engineering related professional societies in the US. The objective of AAES is to work with its member societies to advance the knowledge and practice of engineering in the public interest.
  • American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
    ASEE brings together engineering educators from all of the engineering and engineering technology fields to collaborate on solutions to promote excellence in instruction, research, public service, and practice.
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
    Created by Congress to advise the federal government on issues involving science and technology, NAE membership consists of over 2000 peer-elected individuals. NAE analyzes and reports on technical aspects of public and military issues and concerns.
  • National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
    NSPE strengthens the engineering profession by promoting engineering licensure and ethics, enhancing the engineer image, advocating and protecting professional engineers’ legal rights at the national and state levels, publishing news of the profession, providing continuing education opportunities, and much more.

Discipline-Specific Societies

 

Engineering Corner

Resources Tag Cloud

diversity/iqualidad, high school, technology/computer science instructional strategies, outreach/recruitment, gender, disparities/stereotypes, role models/mentors, women/mujeres, motivation, middle school, program model, girl-friendly instructional strategies, STEM, science instructional strategies, equity, multimedia/virtual, technology/computer science, engineering, careers/workforce, gender equity, Title IX, stereotype threat, cultural bias, spatial visualization, undergraduate/graduate, women, diversity, minorities, research/report/data, professional development, science education, mathematics education, teacher preparation, Learning/Education, Student Preparedness, education statistics, careers, workforce, Instructional strategies, parenting, media, laboratory, museum, Informal Learning-Education, afterschool, instructional strategy, virtual, Learning Research, , Bias, Education, Teacher Training, Teacher Preparation, Math Teachers, Science Teachers, Urban Education, Research/Report, Formal Education, Sally Ride, curriculum, learning style, technology, Programming, programming, Technology, Informal Learning/Education, Gender, Girls/Women, Instructional Strategies, Computer Science, Engineering, Gender Gap, Research-Report, science, math, Lego, project monitoring, program evaluation, high school graduation rates, disparities, race-ethnicity, income level, SAT scores, Motivation, Research-Reports, mujeres, ciencia, paises en desarrollo, UNESCO, tutor­ias, cienti­ficas, Internship, Nature, Award, Girls-Women, Stereotypes, Program Model, igualdad, educacion cientifica y tecnologica, migracion, Science, Statistics, Minorities, Poverty, Educational Reform, Diversity, Video, Parents, Workforce, Role Models/Mentors, Equality-Equity-Disparities, Hispanic/Latino, Evaluation, Black-African American, Hispanic-Latino, Persistence, Careers, Role Models-Mentors, Cultural Competence, Website, Identity, Policy, Media, Mentors, Instructional Strategy

View More Resources

Showcase
Girls RISEnet Regional Workshop at the Miami Science Museum - Engaging Girls in STEM: Strategies You Can Use NOW!

The Miami Science Museum (MSM) hosted participants from Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida for a one-day regional workshop to share research-based strategies that informal science educators can u...Read More

Privacy Policy | The Girls RISE (Raising Interest in Science and Engineering) National Museum Network is funded by Grant No. HRD-0937245 from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Human Resource Development, Research on Gender in Science and Engineering Extension Services (GSE/EXT) Program. Project collaborators include the Miami Science Museum, the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC) and SECME, Inc. The project seeks to increase the capacity of science centers and museums to interest girls from underrepresented populations in the engineering sciences