Gains in new membership show strong growth for ASME in 2005

Emily Smith
ASME NEWS

The April 2005 statistics show that ASME's total membership has had a year-to-year increase for the first time in five years. While the total number of members is up only slightly from last year — 142 more total members — there are large gains in the number of new members and new student members.

New-member numbers are 59 percent higher than those numbers were at this time in 2004, jumping from 3,569 last year to 5,613 as of April 30 this year.

While that new-member number went up from 2000 to 2001, and again from 2001 to 2002, the number had declined in each of the following two years. However, as of April 30, the total number of new members for 2005 is higher than the 2000 number of 3,365.

The gain in new student numbers for this year is nearly 1,000 students, or 9 percent, higher than the previous year's figure. This year's number of 11,905 is 992 students higher than it was in 2004.

Meanwhile, the number of members who were dropped on Jan. 31 was lower than it was in 2004.

 

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