Professional Associations: Your Key to Career Enrichment

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Professional Associates: Your Key to Career Enrichment

You are a working professional, producing for your company, attending graduate classes at Rensselaer at Hartford, and interested in further enriching your career and professional life. Have you considered joining a professional association? Professional associations can be connected to a particular industry, job function, or educational degree. They are often organized on a global or nationwide basis with local, state, or city affiliates.

As is often true in joining organizations: you get out what you put in. Professional organizations can:

• Connect you with people who are working in the same field, have like job functions, and/or similar professional interests,
• Provide you with opportunities to demonstrate leadership and management skills by serving as an officer, board member, or committee chair,
• Offer opportunities to compare work experiences, industry specific strategies, and problem solving techniques, and
• Continue your efforts in pursuing lifelong education through industry-based, subject specific publications, and professional development activities.

Rensselaer at Hartford faculty belong to the following professional associations and organizations. Checkout their web sites or give them a call. Find out about local chapter activities and consider joining. Your participation may be limited to attending one or two events a year, a monthly meeting, or working on a special project. The choice is yours.

Computer and Information Sciences
www.aaai.org/ American Association of Artificial Intelligence
http://scs.org/ The Society for Computer Simulation International

Engineering
Mechanical Engineering:
www.asme.org American Society of Mechanical Engineers
www.iienet.org Institute of Industrial Engineering
www.swe.org/ Society of Women Engineers

Management and Technology
www.ama.org American Marketing Association, 1-800-AMA-1150
www.asq.org/ American Society for Quality
http://aaahq.org/index.cfm American Accounting Association

To locate other professional associations/organizations GO TO:
www.ipl.org/ref/AON Associations on the Net from the Internet Resource Center or use The Encyclopedia of Associations ­ Regional, State and Local Organizations, Northeastern States Edition. (This volume is available in the Cole Library.)

Connect with the Rensselaer faculty, find out about the various organizations to which they belong, and visit faculty webpages.

For more information about professional associations or Career Enrichment Services Contact: Rebecca Danchak, Director of Admissions at: (860) 548-2421 or (800) 433-4723, ext. 2421 (Voice) or rdanchak@ewp.rpi.edu (E-mail).

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