ASME Mission To serve our diverse global communities by advancing, disseminating, and applying engineering knowledge for improving the quality of life, and communicating the excitement of engineering Mission: To serve our diverse global communities by advancing, disseminating and applying engineering knowledge for improving the quality of life, and communicating the excitement of engineering.

Making a Difference Global Impact Energy Workforce Development Transportation Power generation Manufacturing Management Systems & Design Biomechanical Nanotechnology Water management Environmental Sustainability Global Impact Energy I have loved the feeling that I make a difference in the world. ASME has been researching where it can focus engineering activities. You may be interested in this. Where engineers can really make a difference can really be focused in a few key areas. Mechanical engineers believe that they can address the world’s demand for clear, affordable energy. This affects almost every other challenge we face in the world if we are to make it a better place to live. Workforce Development

ASME Speeds progress in advancing technology staying competitive building an innovative culture moving initiatives forward Helps engineers share knowledge Focuses on opportunities and challenges ASME helps the global engineering community develop solutions to real world challenges. Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, ASME is a not-for-profit professional organization that enables collaboration, knowledge sharing and skill development across all engineering disciplines, while promoting the vital role of the engineer in society. ASME codes and standards, publications, conferences, continuing education and professional development programs provide a foundation for advancing technical knowledge and a safer world. ASME’s strengths help us to do some things better. We can speed technological progress through our knowledge-based communities and partnerships. This, in turn, helps companies and institutions stay competitive. It also helps us build an innovative culture to move initiatives forward, particularly those that require collaboration, such as education and research. ASME continues to help engineers share knowledge, in face-to-face meetings and through online communities from remote locations and around the world. In this role, ASME serves as an impartial convener of forums and meetings and a centering point for educational and research collaboration. ASME has kept its focus on new opportunities by continually studying trends, assessing challenges to the profession and to the organization, and determining where we can improve ASME’s ability to respond. The challenge for us all is that educational requirements are expanding. There are competing demands for greater technical knowledge and more depth in management capabilities, creativity, and problem-solving. Engineering companies and research organizations build their reputations on specialized knowledge that must be kept current and shared readily across teams and beyond to the next generation.

Collaboration and Advocacy Engineers Without Borders Engineering for Change LLC Peer-society projects on policy, education, licensing, … Some of the outstanding new opportunities in several key initiatives: The Innovative Technology Institute helps provide ASME products and services to government, industry and academic markets. This institute has excelled, for example, in risk analysis and mitigation models and is also addressing the larger need of infrastructure reinvestment. An example is the collaborative effort on the technical side of ASME that was brought about by the ASME Innovative Technologies Institute LLC and the American Water Works Association, when they entered into a partnership to develop a national voluntary consensus standard encompassing an all-hazards risk management process for use by water and wastewater utilities. The ASME Standards Technology LLC was launched in 2004 for rapid response to industry-specific needs. Through this institute, ASME can carry out work related to newly commercialized technology with technical relevance to codes and standards and to anticipate the standardization needs of industry and government, related to emerging technologies. It has focused on government- and industry-sponsored collaborative research projects, such as next generation nuclear power, carbon sequestration, and biofuels. The Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation is a resource center, accessible by a Web site. An example of its work is the ASME Innovation Showcase program, which was launched in 2008.

ASME Strategic Priorities Energy Grand Challenge Engineering Workforce Global Impact ASME has worked effectively with the Institute of Alternative Futures and others through our Strategic Management Sector to be well-informed in its decision making and planning. To date, this work has identified a number of key drivers, including such areas as sustainability and systems engineering, incremental growth in the complexity of the regulatory framework, workforce diversity, and the increasing influence of nano- and bio-technologies in design work. To achieve ASME’s vision, three key strategies will be focused upon in coming years: Energy Grand Challenge, Global Impact, and Engineering Workforce Development. The Board focused ASME’s strategies on these three critical areas because of their relevance to our work, to the larger engineering community, and to the world. They reflect the global concerns for a sustainable future. Clearly, ASME’s three strategies are interrelated on all levels.

ASME At a Glance More than 125,000 members globally More than 150 countries Headquarters in New York offices in Brussels, Beijing, New Delhi Institute offices in Atlanta, Houston, Washington D.C. Digital library with journals, conference proceedings, and ASME Press e-books 530 standards, used in more than 100 countries [Slide updated 2012 Dec 30, using statistics from the Sept 2012 Membership Dashboard and the FY12Q4 Global Index Report.] Just to give you a working knowledge of the scope of ASME activities: ASME is a knowledge-based, learning society, interested in the technical, educational, and research issues of the engineering community. ASME has more than 125,000* members. ASME has 35 technical divisions, from Computer Design to Power, and 3 institutes: most familiar is the International Gas Turbine Institute and our International Petroleum Technology Institute, also the Nanotechnology Institute. Of course, ASME is known for its conferences, short courses, publications, and standards setting. Many of our technical resources are now available online, with increasing efforts at providing materials translated into Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and other languages. ASME maintains about 530 standards, used in more than 100 countries. Today we have realigned our resources to be strategically focused, market-driven and forward-looking. Our markets are global, and we help prepare the workforce for that global market. [*Because of membership data fluctuations in the annual cycle, an average of 125,000 has been selected as an average. As of September in the cycle, ASME reports 121, 781 members and students worldwide, nearly a 2% increase from the previous year, at this time.]

Vision ASME will be the essential resource for mechanical engineers and other technical professionals throughout the world for solutions that benefit humankind ASME’s role as convener of the best and brightest minds that will help us accomplish mutual goals and create a culture of innovation: Vision: ASME will be the essential resource for mechanical engineers and other technical professionals throughout the world for solutions that benefit humankind.