AEA American Engineering Association



AEA Needs Engineers We are making a determined effort to oppose legislation that will increase the number of imported engineers, programmers, information technologists and high tech workers. To do this we need your help. Legislation, increasing the number of imported engineers and high tech workers, discriminates against all members of the American Engineering community, deprives us of job opportunities and reduces salaries for American professionals. It makes no difference whether one has resided in the U.S. for 40 years or 40 minutes. One new imported professional will replace one US professional and 200,000 imported workers will replace 200,000 US workers. This legislation affects us all. Sooner of later everyone will be affected. Importing foreign workers affects us by depressing labor pay rates and deprives us of skill enhancement opportunities. Discarding senior and mid career engineers and professionals, cultured by years of experience, and replacing them with cheap foreign workers is detrimental to the profession and U.S. Engineering capabilities. To win this fight we need the support of members of the American Engineering Community. We invite engineers, programmers and all high tech workers to join our fight. You can help your profession and job situation by joining and supporting our efforts. See our Position about Employing American Professionals and our Opposition to Importing Foreign Workers. http://www.aea.org/pdf/AEA_POSITION_Workforce. Remember! Join AEA today and send our Position to your Representatives. Let them know we represent your interests. HELP WANTED AEA needs volunteers to fill Board positions. Minimum 10 years of engineering industry experience will be helpful. Previous experience as Leader Members in other organizations will also be an asset. Members from all Engineering Disciplines will be considered. Open Positions Chapter Officers – needed for locations at major industrial areas. Organize monthly meetings, usually held in a local Public Library. This provides an opportunity to interface with many engineers to Network, build Membership and support AEA goals ENGINEERS NEEDED AEA needs 100,000 Nation wide Members to be able to fund and support an office in the vicinity of Washington DC. The office and staff will maintain AEA records and support lobbying efforts to enhance the Engineering profession and U.S. Engineering capabilities. Focus has to be on Engineering employment, opportunities and a future for our members. Our opposition to the use of and importing foreign workers is http://www.aea.org/pdf/AEA_POSITION_Workforce.pdf We need this to make things happen. Everyone can help. To join and become a Member see http://www.aea.org/membership.htm. Post and circulate the following. http://www.aea.org/aeaGlancePrint.pdf Reply to AEA@aea.org 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