Give Students Tools to Succeed
SME is the place Where Manufacturing Comes Together to
provide information, resources, and opportunities for educators to prepare
students for the many exciting, well-paying careers offered in
manufacturing. You can gain knowledge from technical experts and business
leaders from a broad range of manufacturing industries and job functions.
You can help industry advance by sharing your research and discoveries.
And you can take advantage of opportunities that can help you earn tenure
and develop new personal skills.
Improve Your Manufacturing Engineering Curricula
 | Help your students earn SME
certifications through
our rigorous, industry-recognized program. Earning SME certifications
sets your students apart from the competition in the job market. And the
results can be used as a powerful outcome assessment tool as you and
your university review the effectiveness of your curricula and methods.
SME members receive generous discounts on preparatory materials and
exams.
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| Have a great plan for an expanded manufacturing
curriculum, a new lab, or a new program that will help your students
obtain more hands-on skill? You may be able to receive an SME grant
through SME's
Manufacturing Education Plan Grant Program
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| Expand your students' minds by exposing them to
SME books, videos and DVDs on
topics ranging from manufacturing fundamentals, to lean manufacturing,
advanced materials, emerging technologies, and much more. Members
receive generous discounts.
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| Author or review SME's
journals and research publications. SME publishes industry-leading
journals and has released more than 17,000 technical papers on new
technologies, industry trends and manufacturing strategies. If you join
SME, you'll have access to all of that and also enjoy a complementary
subscription to Manufacturing Engineering magazine. SME members
are also entitled to free access to keynote papers for CIRP General
Assemblies as well as papers presented by a number of the CIRP
Scientific and Technical Committees (STCs), from 1994 to present.
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| Access SME's
online library that contains study, industry and career resources,
and a live librarian who will help you and your students get answers to
your tough manufacturing and engineering questions. Members can utilize
the library at no cost. |
Join SME and Explore the Value of Networking
| Become a faculty advisor, and help start a new
student chapter or lead an existing one. As a student chapter faculty
advisor, you're automatically a member of the local senior chapter as
well. Through SME's
chapters you and your students can expand your knowledge through
events, plant tours, and dialogue with industry leaders.
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| Members can join
SME's Manufacturing Education & Research Community, at no additional
cost, and collaborate with other educators to advance manufacturing
education. The community's mission is to motivate, engage and enable its
members through education, training, research, publishing, recognition
and professional growth. |
Help Students Shape Their Careers
| Help your students find jobs and internships through
the SME Jobs
Connection.
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| Help your students apply for
scholarships worth up to $20,000 a year. |
K-12 Educators: Build awareness and excitement
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