S.A.M.E. Membership

As a member, you will realize the following benefits:

• Achieving a better understanding of our Nation's major engineering challenges and how military engineering can help.
• Having an oppurtunity to keep abreast of the latest military engineering applications and techniques.
• Receipt of The Military Engineer, a "world class" professional magazine, currently published six times a year.
• Pariticipation in professinal engineering activities, to include post meetings and regional and national conferences.
• Field trips to technical industries to explore engineering fields and make contacts (Student Chapter at Cal Poly).
• Close association with a multi-disciplinary team of military and civilian engineers who are leaders across our nation.
• Leadership oppurtunities to plan and organize local, regional, and national conferences and special programs.
• Complimentary job referral/resume matching services

Advance The Science of Military Engineering:

• Using The Soceity's Continuing Professional Competency Guide as a basis, provide professional developement training and professional registration & licensure assistance for members. Provide professional training sessions leading to award of Professional Developement Hour (PDH) credits.
• Develop or expand and market your scholarship program. Award at leat one scholarship per year.
• Develop or activate a formal partnering/mentoring relationship with a school in your locale; or conduct at least one educational program that helps young people understand the importance of engineering and engineering-related professions.
• Understand the guidance of The Society's Academy of Fellows, establish or enhance mentor-protege activities for Young Members in your Post. Conduct at least one activity that provides a montor-protege opportunity.

Foster Mutually Beneficial Relations Between The Civilian & Military Engineer:

• Develop activities that fulfill the current interests & needs of Post members. Also provide activities that expand their awareness of new developments in other sectors of public and private engineering and engineering related disciplines.
• Conduct cooperative technically oriented programs with other professional societies, or other organizations with which The Society shares mutaul interests.
• Conduct at least one outreach activity in conjunction with a governmental, private, or professional organization whose members may have little awareness of The Society. Promote dialogue that is mutually beneficial to members of both organizations and advertise the benefits of The Society that will appeal to non-members.

To apply only to the National S.A.M.E. organization, fill out the National S.A.M.E. Membership Application Form. For more information, see the National S.A.M.E. Membership page.

Membership Applications:
To apply to the Vandenberg Post, download PDF Adobe Acrobat files and fill out and mail in the membership application.
Membership Application, Page 1 (1 MB)
Membership Application, Page 2 (1.2 MB)

or contact a staff officer on the S.A.M.E. Staff page.