This section of the wiki is intended to be a resource list for organizations that directly support or impact the engineering process in some way. As this is a very large list of external links, we will improve the context and descriptions over time. If you'd like to help, please get in touch with [email protected]
¶ Professional Engineering
These organizations are directly responsible for engineering licensure or support the practice of engineering in other ways. This is not an exhaustive list, but is representative of the types of organizations that engineers can utilize to support ongoing efforts and help inform the standard of care for their craft.
- National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) -
- State Licensing Boards for (PE) -
- American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEES) -
- American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers (AICAE) -
- American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) -
- American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) -
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHe) -
- American Nuclear Society (ANS) -
- American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) -
- American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) -
- American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) -
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) -
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) -
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) -
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) -
- American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) -
- American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) -
- American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP) -
- American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) -
- American Welding Society (AWS) -
- Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) - Linked from ASCE site
- ASM International -
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) -
- Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) -
- Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) -
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) -
- Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) -
- Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) -
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) -
- National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) -
- Order of the Engineer -
- Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) -
- Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) -
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) -
- Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE) -
- Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) -
- Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) -
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) -
- Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME) -
- Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) -
- Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE Inspiring Plastics Professionals) -
- Society of Women Engineers (SWE) -
- Vertical Flight Society (VTOL) -
State Specific Organizations
¶ Standards Organizations
These organizations are drectly responsible for drafting standards used in engineering. Not all standards may be mandatorym but you should be familiar with the regulations and requirements that govern your project as you start identifying and finalizing requirements in the design process.
- American National Standards Institute (ANSI) -
- American Petroleum Institute (API) -
- American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) -
- American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE) -
- Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems (ASAM) -
- Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS) -
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) -
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) -
- ASTM International -
- British Standards Institution (BSI) -
- European Committee for Standardization (CEN) -
- European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) -
- Global Standards (GS1) -
- Global Platform -
- International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) -
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) -
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) -
- International Society of Automation (ISA) -
- International Organization for Standardization (ISO) -
- International Aerospace Quality Group -
- National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) -
- National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) -
- Object Management Group -
- The Open Group -
- TM Forum -
- National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) -
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) -
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) -
- Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) -
- SEMI -
- Underwriters Laboratory (UL) -
¶ Country-specific Standards Organizations
- Standards Australia - Australia
- Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) - Brazil
- Standards Council of Canada / Conseil Canadien des Normes - Canada
- Colombian Institute of Technical Standards and Certification - Colombia
- Czech Standards Institute - Czech Republic
- Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) - Germany
- Ghana Standards Authority - Ghana
- Bureau of Indian Standards - India
- National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) - Ireland
- Standards Institution of Israel - Israel
- Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione (UNI) - Italy
- Japanese Standards Association - Japan
- Royal Netherlands Standardization Institute (NEN) - Netherlands
- Polish Committee for Standardization - Poland
- South African Bureau of Standards - South Africa
¶ Regulatory
These agencies have regulatory authority in the United States for critical infrastructure operators, and are likely the final arbiter of truth if you are trying to determine what the actual requirements are for your project.
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) -
- North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) -
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) -
- Transportation Security Agency (TSA) -
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) -
- Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) -
- Bureau of Land Management -
- Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) -
- Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) -
- National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) -
- Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) -
- Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -
- Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) -
- Federal Statutes (USACE) -
- State Regulators
¶ Trade Associations
These trade associations support the goals of their constituents and can be helpful in illuminating any confusion for their area of focus. In some cases, these organizations also participate in standards development of creation of industry guidelines to support the engineering process.
- North American Transmission Forum (NATF) -
- National Rural Electric Co-op Association (NRECA) -
- American Public Power Association (APPA) -
- North American Generator Forum (NAGF) -
- SunSpec Alliance -
- Edison Electric Institute (EEI) -
- National Rural Water Association (NRWA) -
- American Water Works Association (AWWA) -
- Natural Gas Council -
- American Petroleum Institute (API) -
- American Gas Association (AGA) -
- Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA) -
- Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) -
- Natural Gas Supply Association (NGSA) -
- Semiconductor Industry Association (SEI) -
- Global Platform -
¶ Public Private Partnerships
¶ Information Sharing (ISAC/ISAO)
While this category tends to be more a focus of operations in the sharing of security intelligence, we find it useful for engineers to understand the resources available in their sector as it may help to inform security requirements for the threats that have been seen historically impacting their industry. We recommend consulting with your security operations teams to understand how cybersecurity creates impacts for the systems you are building, but you should not limit yourself to these scenarios, as the most failure-prone coinditions are likely caused by climate, human error or maintenance failures. A good example of this, we now know that the Oldsmar water incident was caused by employee error. This could have been a catastrophic incident impacting the local drinking water, had it not been caught in time.
- National Council of ISACs -
- ICS-ISAC
- OT-ISAC -
- Auto-ISAC -
- Aviation-ISAC -
- Communications-ISAC -
- Downstream Natural Gas (DNG-ISAC) -
- Elections Infrastructure (EI-ISAC) -
- Electricity (E-ISAC) -
- Emergency Management and Response (EMR-ISAC) -
- Financial Services (FS-ISAC) -
- Health (H-ISAC) -
- Information Technology (IT-ISAC) -
- Maritime ISAC -
- Maritime and Port Security (MPS-ISAO) -
- Maritime Transportation Systems (MTS-ISAC) -
- Multi-State (MS-ISAC) -
- National Defense (ND-ISAC) -
- Oil and Natural Gas (ONG-ISAC) -
- Real Estate (RE-ISAC) -
- Research and Education Networks (REN-ISAC) -
- Small Broadband ISAC -
- Space (S-ISAC) -
- Surface Transportation, Public Transportation, Over-the-road Bus ISACS -
- Water ISAC -
¶ Law Enforcement
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) -
- Local Law Enforcement
¶ Incident Reporting
- CISA -
¶ Think Tanks
¶ National Laboratories
An outgrowth of immense investment in scientific research initiated by the U.S. Government during World War II, the National Laboratories have served as the leading institutions for scientific innovation in the United States for more than seventy years.
The Energy Department's 17 National Labs tackle the critical scientific challenges of our time -- from combating climate change to discovering the origins of our universe -- and possess unique instruments and facilities, many of which are found nowhere else in the world. They address large scale, complex research and development challenges with a multidisciplinary approach that places an emphasis on translating basic science to innovation.
- AMES Laboratory -
- Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) -
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) -
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) -
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL) -
- National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) -
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) -
- National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) -
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) -
- Sandia National Laboratory -
- Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) -