About CIE-USA
Found in 1917, Chinese Institute of Engineers – USA (CIE-USA) is a non-profit professional organization of Chinese-American engineers, scientists and other professionals. The objectives of CIE-USA are to promote Science, Engineering, Technology and Mathematics (STEM) in all communities across United States and provide recognitions to the APA professionals at the national level.
Currently, CIE-USA has 6 regional chapters in the US and they are:
§ Dallas-Fort Worth (CIE-DFW)
§ Great New-York (CIE-(GNY)
§ New Mexico (CIE-NM)
§ Oversea Chinese Environmental Engineers and Scientists Association (CIE-OCEESA)
§ San Francisco Bay Area (CIE-SFB)
§ Seattle (CIE-SEA)
The 7th chapter in a process of forming is the Southern California (CIE-SOCAL) Chapter.
Regional chapter activities include the following:
§ Technical and Science Seminars
§ Professional Career Development Seminars
§ Leadership Seminars
§ Asian American Youth Science, Engineering and Technical Scholarship awards
§ Asian American Youth MATH contests and Science Fun (there are over a thousand kids participated every year).
At the national level, in conjunction with National E-week, CIE-USA hosts the renowned annual Asian American Engineering of the Year Award (AAEOY). The coming one will be its 10 anniversary and has been scheduled in Seattle from Feb 25 to 26th, 2011.
AAEOY creates a meaningful platform to recognize outstanding Asian American professionals in the areas of STEM and leaderships and they are nominated from the corporation, academic, government and other renowned institutions. Many of their achievements represent monumental breakthroughs in their respective fields and their impacts are global and everlasting.
At the international level, CIE work with Chinese State Council and Taiwan government to host the following two bi-annual events:
Sino-American Technology and Engineering Conference (SATEC): First held in 1993, this bi-annual conference is organized in collaboration with the People’s Republic of China and the latest one was successfully completed in April 2010.
Modern Engineering and Technology Seminar (METS): In collaboration with the Taiwan national government, this bi-annual technology conference was founded in 1966 between the CIE-NY and CIE-ROC chapters. The next coming event will take place in November 7-11, 2010 in Taipei.
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