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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.



• 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



• 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• 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.



• Help your students apply for scholarships worth up to $20,000 a year.

K-12 Educators: Build awareness and excitement

• Get students of any age excited about manufacturing by having them see the processes at work in making some pretty cool products at Manufacturing is Cool.com



• Help middle school and high school students gain experience in manufacturing through SME Education Foundation Youth Programs. These fun summer programs are offered in several states.