Links - Professional Organisations

Please find a selection of useful reading material listed below.

IEE - Institute of Electrical Engineers

IEEE - Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers

INSTMC - The Institute of Measurement & Control

IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission

ISA - The international society for measurement and control

The Engineering Council - The Council and its partner engineering Institutions work together to maintain a world-class engineering profession for the benefit of the nation. The Council's overall strategy includes speaking on national issues where a single powerful voice is needed and forging strong links with government, industry, academia and the media to ensure greater recognition of the vital contribution made by engineers to economic prosperity and the quality of life.

POSC - Petrotechnical Open Software Corporation - POSC is an international not-for-profit membership corporation. It is uniquely designed to unite industry people, issues and ideas to facilitate E&P information sharing and business process integration. POSC provides open specifications for information modeling, information management, and data and application integration over the life cycle of E&P assets.

IMEKO - International Measurement Confederation

American Automatic Control Council

IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control - The INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF AUTOMATIC CONTROL, founded in September 1957, is a multinational federation of National Member Organizations (NMOs), each one representing the engineering and scientific societies concerned with automatic control in its own country.

SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Optical Society of America - The Optical Society of America is your inside track to the optics and photonics community and your link to an international network of more than 11,400 optical scientists, engineers, and technicians in some 50 countries.

The American Institute of Physics

Institute of Physics - The Institute of Physics is an international learned society and professional body for the advancement and dissemination of physics, pure and applied, and promotion of physics education.

VMA - Valve Manufacturers Association of America - Founded in 1938, the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) has represented the interests and concerns of over 100 U.S. and Canadian manufacturers of valves and actuators, who account for approximately 85% of the total industrial valve shipments out of U.S. facilities.

Federation of the Electronics Industry - The Federation of the Electronics Industry (FEI) represents the interests of the information technology, telecommunications, electronic components, defence, aerospace and naval electronics, and business technology.

FEI member companies range from major global computer, telecommunications and aerospace corporations to small innovative UK companies. Collectively the electronics industry employs over 1.2 million people and accounts for around 12% of UK GDP. Over the last five years it has been the fastest growing sector of UK manufacturing.

TAPPI - The technical association for the pulp and paper industry - With over 32,000 members worldwide, TAPPI is the world's largest professional organization dedicated to the Paper and Pulp Industries.

LRPA - The Low Power Radio Association - The Low Power Radio Association was formally established in the UK in 1990 to act as the voice of the low power radio industry. Since then membership has expanded rapidly to include companies involved in low power radio in several European countries and beyond.

Materials Research Society - The Materials Research Society is a non-profit organization which brings together scientists, engineers and research managers from industry, government, academia and research laboratories to share findings in the research and development of new materials of technological importance.