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About American Association of Engineering Societies

The American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES) is a multidisciplinary organization of engineering societies dedicated to advancing the knowledge, understanding, and practice of engineering. The AAES membership is located throughout the United States and these engineering societies represent the mainstream of U.S. engineering - more than one million engineers in industry, government, and academia. The vision of AAES is to be the advocate of the engineering profession's common viewpoints on issues important to the nation and the profession. Its mission is to contribute effectively in the shaping of public policy and public awareness by providing a forum for team building, sharing information and forming consensus on issues.

AAES takes action by speaking with a unified voice and leveraging activities/resources. The individual-engineer members of the AAES membership offer both person experience in a wide variety of engineering disciplines plus the world's greatest collection of technology information. From codes and standards, to the latest high-tech advances, the engineering societies collect and maintain the largest collection of technology documentation. All these elements are ready for advancing technology education and infrastructure in the developing world.

International Voluntary Service Activities

The American Association of Engineering Societies and its member societies have been active in the collection and distribution of US engineering technology throughout the world. For eight years, AAES has been the secretariat to the World Federation of Engineering Organization's Committee of Sustainable Development. This committee was responsible for the collection and distribution of the latest developments in sustainable development technologies around the world. In addition, AAES and its member societies are currently working with in the structure of WFEO to create and implement a program of technology capacity building in developing worlds.

Volunteer for Prosperity Opportunities
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Health & Prosperity Sectors	Agriculture, Economic Growth, Capacity Building, Education,Water, Information Communication Technology
Types of Opportunities	Technical
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Volunteer Profile Summary
The programs that AAES has developed and participated in are in support of many or all developing countries. There are opportunities to operate in a country and AAES engineers have taken on that work. However, the significant portion of work is in creating infrastructure and documentation to support the efforts in developing countries.