A New Beginning for AEA

Everyone has heard how the American Medical Association (AMA) serves the medical profession and doctors, supporting them and providing information to the public. Now, consider how we can build the American Engineering Association (AEA) into such a prestigious group for Engineers.  Briefly, an AMA for Engineers.  This is something we truly need to continue to ensure that American engineers are the best, most qualified and experienced engineers in the world today.  To this end we plan to make some changes – thus, “A New Beginning.”

To standardize and simplify our records: AEA dues/fees will be payable based on the calendar year, and no longer as a subscription beginning with the date you join and ending a year later.  The current dues payment will cover the present through Dec. 31, 2008.

Next, to build AEA into a formidable Engineering organization capable of dealing with the professional concerns of our members and those of the Engineering community, we will be improving AEA’s organizational structure.  By this we mean to recruit AEA Section representatives, set up AEA Sections around the country, hold local meetings, and enlist AEA Directors to represent each of the major Engineering disciplines.  These Directors should address the specific professional concerns and issues related to their discipline along with issues and concerns relating to all engineering fields.  Thus uniting the entire profession.

Until now, engineers have been divided by discipline and even sex.  That’s over!  With AEA we find unity.^1.

Finally, my goal has always been to ”Enhance the Engineering Profession and U.S. Engineering Capabilities.”  This means not only uniting engineers from all disciplines and addressing their important needs to insure a full and successful lifetime career, but also taking these needs, along with solutions, directly to our Representatives in Washington.  This will require a staff and office in the Washington D.C. area, plus representation on the Hill.

All of these goals depend upon YOU, the members of the Engineering community.  With your support and desire to enhance our profession I know we will succeed.^2.

Please, join us in our quest for a better profession.

Sincerely,
Richard F. Tax
President

1.  A glance at AEA  http://www.aea.org/aeaGlancePrint.pdf
2.  This will get you started  http://www.aea.org/membership.htm