Gains in New Membership Show Strong Growth for ASME in 2005 (5/05/05)

Emily M. 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. As of April 30, the total number of new members for 2005, however, 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.

For more details on ASME membership numbers, read the June issue of ASME News.

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ASME Selects American Management Association to Provide Management Training for Engineers

ASME announces a strategic partnership with the American Management Association (AMA) that provides ASME members with access to business and management education products, services and resources offered by AMA.

Through this alliance, ASME and AMA will provide ASME members with the tools, knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in today's challenging business environment.

As ASME members look to expand and improve their businesses, AMA, the world's leading membership-based management education and development organization, will offer their professional training seminars, conferences and special events to ASME members at a 10 percent discount.

"ASME's strategic partnership with AMA broadens our ability to serve our members and the greater engineering community," said John Corcoran, managing director, ASME Member Affairs. "AMA's years of experience in management development, combined with ASME's professional development programs, offer engineers the training and the tools to excel as managers in their respective disciplines."

AMA offers more than 170 seminars and workshops in project management, finance, communications skills, sales, marketing, purchasing, general management, leadership and human resources, from CEOs to new managers to administrative professionals.

"AMA's portfolio of practical, impact-filled content, accelerated-learning and teaching approach, and experienced course leaders makes us uniquely positioned to provide ASME members with the support they need," said Pat Leonard, AMA executive vice president of U.S. Management Education.

In addition to AMA seminars, ASME members can attend AMA Current Issues briefings and forums, receive access to AMA's members-only Web site and Online Library, participate in management surveys and receive discount pricing on AMA's executive conference facilities.

For more information about this new ASME member benefit, visit www.amanet.org/alliances/asme, or you may call AMA, toll-free at 1-877-765-3634.
Remember to mention the exclusive ASME member discount code: AMA-ASME.

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ASME and the Society for Experimental Mechanics Form Joint Membership Venture

ASME and the Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM) have signed a memorandum of understanding that paves the way for the two engineering organizations to commence a strategic partnership, which includes joint membership privileges and support of the mutual goals of both groups.

ASME and SEM will partner in sharing opportunities to both broaden and improve membership benefits while offering their respective members an expanded range of professional development opportunities and academic pursuits.

"We are excited by the opportunity to build a closer relationship with ASME," said Tom Proulx, SEM executive director. "We believe that such arrangements offer additional value for members as well as the potential for increased cooperative efforts in the future."

According to the MOU, joint membership would be offered to members of both SEM and ASME at a discounted rate. Members of SEM will receive a 25 percent discount off the ASME membership dues rate, while student members of SEM will be charged a $15 fee for joining ASME. Members of ASME will be offered a 25 percent discount off SEM membership and student member rates.

"The joint membership agreement with SEM will help to broaden our ability to serve the engineering community by creating new networking opportunities and by the exchange of knowledge-based programs that will benefit a multidisciplinary engineering profession," said Virgil Carter, ASME executive director.

Additionally, ASME and SEM will seek opportunities to provide and promote jointly sponsored workshops, technical and professional development programs, and educational and student activities at their respective conferences, seminars and forums.

"As we strengthen new and existing partnerships and alliances, ASME continues to enhance the technical competency and professional well-being of its members and those within the engineering and technology community," added Carter.

The Society for Experimental Mechanics, originally called the Society for Experimental Stress Analysis, was founded in 1943 as a nonprofit scientific and educational organization with the original goal to "further the knowledge of stress and strain analysis and related technologies." In the years since its founding, SEM has continued to adapt itself to the needs of the members in the experimental mechanics community.




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