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News Feeds

Professional Organizations

• Elite Technical Group Inc., is proud to be a member of the California Staffing Professionals organization.

Medical Devices

• Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) – formerly Health Industry Manufacturers Association http://www.advamed.org/

• American Society for Quality - Biomed division http://www.asq.org/biomed/

• Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) http://www.aami.org/

• Device Link - Industry Organizations of Interest to Medical Device Manufacturers http://www.devicelink.com/links/organizations.html

Biotech

• Bioexchange - (formerly GenomeJobs) focuses on Biotech, Bioinformatics and molecular biology. http://www.bioexchange.com/

• BioTech - Life sciences resources and reference tools from the University of Texas. http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/

• Biotechnology Information Directory - from Cato Research lets you browsean exhaustive alphabetized list of companies in the field under a few categories, as well as associations, publications, comprehensive calendar of upcoming biotech and pharmaceutical events. http://www.cato.com/biotech/

• Biospace beat - news for Bioscience http://www.biospace.com/news.aspx#breakingnews

Engineering

The following is a list of professional associations and societies with Internet
sites of interest to the engineering community.

• American Chemical Society (ACS)

• American Electronics Association http://www.aeanet.org/

• American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI)

• American Physical Society (APS)

• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)

• American Society for Quality (ASQ)

• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

• American Society of Engineering Technology (ASET)

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)

• American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

• ASM -- The Materials Information Society

• Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

• AVS - The Science and Technology Society - formerly the American Vacuum Society

• Industrial Research Institute (IRI)

• ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society

• Institute for Operations Research (INFORMS)

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE):
  
  • Web
  • Computer Society
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

• International Council of Scientific Unions - CODATA

• International Engineering Consortium (IEC)

• International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

• International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)

• International Organization for Standardization (ISO)

• National Academy of Engineering

• National Academy of Sciences

• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)

• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

• National Research Council

• National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)

• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)

• Optical Society of America (OSA)

• Rochester Engineering Society

• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

• Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE)

• Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME)

• Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)

• Society of Women Engineers (SWE)

• SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering

• Standards Engineering Society

CAD User's Group

San Diego Pro/E Users Group

SOLIDWORKS USER GROUP NETWORK

• The SWUGN committee was originally formed as the SolidWorks National User Group (SNUG) in October 1999.  The original founding members - Scott Bemis, Michelle Pillers, Mark Peters, and Richard Doyle – met with SolidWorks representatives to discuss a national body for user group support.  The SNUG charter was formally incorporated on March 7th, 2000. http://www.swugn.org LA/OC SolidWorks User Group West Covina, CA - USA

OTHER INTERNET RESOURCES:

• Engineering Newsgroups

• Engineering Websites

Information Technology

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence http://www.aaai.org/home.html

• Council for Regional Information Technology Associations http://www.crita.org/

• Business Software Alliance - http://www.bsa.org

The voice of the world's leading software developers before governments and with consumers in the international marketplace. BSA educates computer users on software copyrights; advocates public policy that fosters innovation and expands trade opportunities; and fights software piracy.

• Information Technology Industry Council - http://www.itic.org

Lobbying agency that advocates rewarding IT innovation and supports free-market policies. Congressional scorecards.

• International Digital Enterprise Alliance (IDEAlliance) - http://www.idealliance.org/

Advances the process of information interoperability, standards, and dissemination of knowledge.

• Higher Education Information Technology Alliance - http://www.heitalliance.org/

Established to define and promote the higher education and library community's collective interests in United States federal IT policy.

• Information Technology Association of America - http://www.itaa.org/

Trade association representing the broad spectrum of the world-leading U.S. IT industry. That's why ITAA encompasses over 11,000 direct and affiliate members

• The Computing Technology Industry Association - http://www.comptia.org/

Global IT trade association promoting industry standards, growing professional expertise, and providing IT skills education.

• World Information Technology and Services Alliance - http://www.witsa.org/

International association for the IT industry.

• Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) - http://www.aitp.org/

Provides leadership opportunities, career development and personal growth for industry professionals.

• Geospatial Information and Technology Association (GITA) - http://www.gita.org/

Nonprofit professional educational association dedicated to promoting the use and benefits of geospatial information technologies within infrastructure-based organizations such as utilities, telecoms, oil and gas pipelines, and public works departments.

• AFCOM - http://www.afcom.com/

Data center professional’s organization offering services to help support the management of data centers around the world.

• Computer and Communications Industry Association - http://www.ccianet.org/

Nonprofit association of computer and communications firms.

• ISDA - Association of Storage & Retrieval Professionals - http://www.isdanet.net/

Providing document management and solutions to business, industry, and governmental agencies at all levels.

• Computer Science and Telecommunications Board - http://www.nationalacademies.org/cstb/

Interdisciplinary appraisals of technical, economic, social, and policy issues regarding the IT industry.

• Software & Information Industry Association http://www.siia.net/

• Technical Business Network - http://www.techbiz.com

Nonprofit professional membership organization providing forums for access to professionals and to offer opportunities to foster corporate alliances. Company profile, calendar, what's new, and contact information.

• Information Systems Management Benchmarking Consortium - http://ismbc.org/

Brings together information systems professionals from a variety of companies to conduct targeted studies on issues related to improving performance and effectiveness.

Regulatory and Quality

Associations, Organizations, and Other Links of Interest to the Regulatory Professionals

• ABPI (Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry) is the trade association for about a hundred companies in the UK producing prescription medicines. Its member companies research, develop, manufacture and supply more than 90 per cent of the medicines prescribed through the National Health Service (NHS).

• AdvaMed (Advanced Medical Technology Association - formerly HIMA) is the largest medical technology association in the world. We represent more than 1,100 innovators and manufacturers of medical devices, diagnostic products and medical information systems.

• AFDO (Association of Food and Drug Officials)

• Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society http://www.raps.org

• San Diego Regulatory Affairs Network http://www.sdran.org/links.html

• Society of Clinical Research Associates http://www.socra.org/

• Society for Clinical Trials, Inc. http://www.sctweb.org/

• Society of Pharmaceutical Medicine http://www.socpharmed.org/

• Society of Quality Assurance http://www.sqa.org/

Science

• American Association for the Advancement of Science http://www.aaas.org/

Validation

• IVT (Institute of Validation Technology)

The Institute of Validation Technology (IVT) publisher of the Journal of Validation Technology and the Journal GXP Compliance is dedicated to expanding the global knowledge base for validation and compliance professionals in FDA-regulated industries.