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Build leaders and lead collaboration among government and industry to develop multidisciplined solutions to national security infrastructure challenges.

2024 Board of Direction Election Open

Voting in the SAME National Board of Direction election for 2024 is now open: March 1 to April 15. The ballot includes candidates for President-Elect, Vice President, and Elected Director. (Members may vote only once. Once you vote, you cannot submit a vote again.)

Casting your ballot for SAME’s national leadership is an integral part of the Society’s governance. Help ensure a strong future by voting for your next leaders today!

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SAME STEM Camps

Each summer, SAME’s STEM/Engineering & Construction Camps offer high school students a unique chance to start their STEM journey alongside seasoned members of the military engineering community and A/E/C industry. While applications for 2024 are now closed, it is never too early to start thinking about next year!

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Program Spotlight

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Leader Development Program

Established in 2019, SAME’s Leader Development Program serves to identify and cultivate talent from within the Society to develop leaders for the future of the A/E/C profession and to address the nation’s grand challenges. Participants explore individual strengths and team dynamics as they build leadership experience alongside their peers in a true joint environment. Since its inception, about half of program participants have come from the uniformed services; the other half represent SAME member companies.

Securing America’s Future, Together — Join Us!

SAME provides its more than 25,000 members from across military, government, industry, and academia with extensive opportunities for education, training, and networking through a robust offering of conferences, workshops, community events, publications, webinars, leader development, STEM outreach, and other member-driven programs.

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Communities of Interest

Young Professionals Community

The mission of the Young Professionals Community of Interest is to be an advocate for and engage young professionals support for SAME’s Strategic Plan through outreach, training, networking and recognition.

SAME History

Founded in 1920, the Society of American Military Engineers sought to ensure the lessons of WWI would be remembered in order to ensure that America’s entire engineering community would be prepared for the next conflict, and have the needed trust and understanding to best serve our national security.

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Featured Resource

Strengthening Industry-Government Engagement

As the cornerstone on which the Society was founded in 1920, industry-government engagement remains “mission-essential” for the organization a century later, as the first goal of the 2025 SAME Strategic Plan. In 2021, SAME initiated a new process to evaluate and execute national-level IGE projects in order to ensure we deliver impact and maximize the use of available resources

SAME Foundation: Fostering Engineering Leadership for the Nation

Established in 2016, the SAME Foundation is committed to investing in programs that will have an enduring impact on developing engineering leaders for our nation. America’s future is bright. Let’s help make it brighter!

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2024 Silent Auction Benefiting the SAME Foundation

Hosted by the Academy of Fellows

View items starting March 1. Online bidding ends March 26.

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This inaugural online auction in support of the SAME Foundation and its compelling purpose to “foster engineering leadership for the nation” features a number of exciting adventures and opportunities, such as hiking in the Rockies, beach houses with golf access, mentoring sessions, lessons from an Olympian, and much more. Don’t miss this unique chance to support our nation’s future engineering and STEM leaders, while having a little fun in the process! Thanks to all those who donated something for the Silent Auction, and to to Academy of Fellows for organizing and executing this event.