GRADES OF MEMBERSHIP
ASME has five grades of membership.

Honorary Member
A rank of membership awarded for eminent distinguished engineering achievement and selected by the ASME International Committee on Honors.
 

Fellow
A grade of distinction.
A Fellow, one who has attained a membership grade of distinction, at the time of advancement shall be a corporate member of the Society, shall have been responsible for significant engineering achievements, and shall have not less than 10 years of active practice and 10 years of continuous corporate membership in ASME.
 

Member
Requires attainments equal to eight years of active practice in the profession of engineering or teaching.
 
Attainment of a degree in an approved engineering curriculum or a baccalaureate degree in an approved engineering technology curriculum shall be accepted as equivalent to the eight year experience requirement. Furthermore, appropriate credit toward the eight year requirement will be given for the following: graduation from an unapproved engineering or engineering technology curriculum, completion of portions of such curricula, completion of a course of study in a technical institute or other recognized educational programs.
 
The experience of one who has not been graduated from an approved curriculum should show variety, progress and promotion in the performance of engineering functions.
 

Affiliate
Involvement, either professionally or personally, with service to the profession
 

Student Member
A student regularly enrolled in approved engineering or engineering technology curriculum at the undergraduate or graduate level.

Free Limited Student Membership Option (Freshman Only)
A first year student (Freshman Only) regularly enrolled in approved engineering or engineering technology curriculum at the undergraduate or graduate level.

This membership includes all the benefits of student membership with one exception;  no Mechanical Engineering magazine.   If interested in receiving the ME magazine monthy, please select the regular student members for $25.00.

MEMBERSHIP YEAR
The membership year runs from October 1 to the following September 30.   If dues have not been received by December 31, members become inactive and service will cease till dues are received.  

Inactive membership records are saved for 5 years before they are deleted.  At any time during these 5 years if a member wishes to reactivate their membership they need only pay the current membership years' dues. After five years a new membership application will need to be completed.