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Joining AIChE gives you access to an amazing network of top professionals in chemical engineering in addition to providing a host of other valuable member benefits, including the following.
- One year subscriptions to CEP Chemical Engineering Progress®, AIChExchange and AIChE SmartBrief
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Member Types
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Professional Members
Professional members enjoy the exclusive privileges and benefits of AIChE membership and shall also have the privileges of nominating and voting for officers and directors. They shall also have the privileges of holding office and of voting on amendments to this Constitution after 4 years as a member (a 4-year member).
Senior Members
If you are currently a professional member of AIChE, you may want to consider becoming a senior member. Senior members have the privilege of holding office, voting on amendments to the Constitution, nominating and voting for officers and directors. Being a Senior Member is a prerequisite for becoming an AIChE Fellow.A member may, after regular application and election, become a Senior Member.
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Fellows
Fellow is AIChE's highest grade of membership and is achieved only through election by the AIChE BOD, generally upon recommendation of the AIChE Admissions Committee through whom all nominations for election to Fellow are processed.A senior sember who has satisfied the Fellow Bylaw requirements and has demonstrated significant accomplishments in, and contributions to, the profession may be nominated for consideration to be elected Fellow.
Young Professionals & Graduate Students
AIChE Young Professionals are under 35 and have graduated from an undergraduate institution, new to the working world, Master’s or PhD students , pursuing a career in chemical engineering post-graduation and looking to advance their career after a few years of work in the field. Save on Young Professional and Graduate Student membership.
Undergraduate Members
Undergraduate student members enjoy the exclusive privileges and benefits that are common to all classes of membership, but not the privileges of nominating, voting, and holding office. A student member may not retain this class of membership beyond the end of the calendar year in which he or she is last enrolled as a student. Undergraduate students enjoy sponsored membership at no cost thanks to AIChE's ScaleUp program.
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