Society of Automotive Engineers

The Society of Automotive Engineers, or SAE, is a group dedicated to automotive engineers, mechanical engineers, and other scientists and students involved with self-propelled vehicles. I intend to join this society later in my years at the University of Pittsburgh as a mechanical engineering student.

• Who are the members of SAE?
  • The Society of Automotive Engineers consists of over 90,000 members.
  • The group is made up largely of mechanical and aerospace engineers but also includes students, business representatives and educators.
• Why does this society exist?
  • As its saying goes, SAE is "... dedicated to advancing mobility engineering worldwide." The large membership continually strives to improve the technologies used in self-propelled vehicles such as cars, trucks, airplanes and so on.
  • SAE puts out Automotive Engineering , Aerospace Engineering , and other magazines and papers to circulate new information to its members.
• Becoming a member...
  • This is probably the engineering society I would be most likely to join. My career goal is to work for Honda and become an automotive engineer, so logically, it makes sense for me to join a group made up of other automotive engineers. I would easily be able to keep up to date on new technology and information coming out in my field and be able to recognize its relevence to my own projects.
  • Also, if I ever needed to look for employment, SAE provides a vehicle for me to reach out to potential employers. I fully intend to join SAE in the follow months as a student member. I feel that it will provide me with plenty of usefull information that I can implement in my studies here at the University of Pittsburgh as an engineering student.