Guide for Contributing Authors
If you are interested in contributing to the professional and career development of early-career engineers and students, we invite you to submit articles for publication in ME Today.
Your article should contain the following:
Subject Matter
(This would include personal and professional experiences, lessons-learned, instructional information "How to", and best practices for starting a career, etc.)
- for Early Career Engineers: The content should be timely and critical information that early career engineers can use to assist them in advancing their careers, their professional awareness and skills, better understand the practice and business of engineering around the world, or that will help them to balance their personal/professional lives.
- for Undergraduate and Graduate Students: The content should be timely, non-technical, and critical information that undergraduate and graduate students can use to assist them during their educational careers and as they prepare for futures in engineering.
- Audience: ME Today reaches a worldwide audience of early career engineers (in professional practice for 0-10 years) and, undergraduate and graduate students.
- Specifications: The length article word count should fall between 750-1600 words. Include two (2) or more relevant color-photos. Please send as a digital file, with at least a 300dpi resolution.
Byline/Bio
Please include your full name, as you would like it to appear on the byline of the article as author and include current job title and employer and a daytime phone number, where we may contact you, if necessary. Please submit also a brief bio (or copy of your resume). If you are a student please provide your full name, as you would like it to appear on the byline of the article a s author, the name of the school you attend and the name of your academic department.
Editorial Process ME Today is edited and published at least 6 times per year and all articles received will go through an editorial process.
- In submitting an article, the author grants permission to ASME to edit for clarity, style and length, prior to publishing and grants ASME all copyrights to the published work.
- All articles must be received via email at earlycareerengineers@asme.org to the attention, Cheryl Hasan, Editor.
- Depending on the volume of submissions, unpublished articles may not be acknowledged.
- ME Today is an online publication that is made available distributed free of charge to ASME members worldwide. Contributing authors do so on a voluntary basis and receive recognition in the publication, but are not otherwise compensated.