Parents

Believe it or not, you are the most influential person in your child’s life. Sometimes it doesn’t feel that way, of course. Even so, in research study after research study, children and young adults report that they consult their parents before making any major decisions.

Before your son or daughter begins to earn the big bucks as an engineer, before graduating from college, before even selecting a college, he or she has to build math and science skills in elementary and middle school. Motivation and hard work are two keys to success. Opportunity, particularly for African American, American Indian, and Latino students, is another. Your support is vital to ensuring that your child gets the opportunity to succeed and makes the most of it.

Today’s students are aiming high: They want to succeed in their chosen careers and are increasingly selecting math- and science-based careers that might have seemed inaccessible to previous generations. Engineering, with its various disciplines, appeals to a wide variety of interests and skill sets. Use NACME.org to help your child make better career choices. Talk about the possibility of designing new products as an electrical engineer, of prolonging life through technology as a biomedical engineer, or of growing new crops as an agricultural engineer. Encourage your son or daughter to go for it—and look to NACME to back him or her all along the way.

Educators

You are the people who will grow the next generations of engineers. Whether you work as a classroom teacher, teacher’s assistant, principal, counselor, superintendent, or another kind of administrator, you provide an invaluable service to your community. In addition to preparing your students for everyday life; managing your classroom; and staying current with changes in curriculum, education policies, and standards, you are preparing leaders. The students you work with are our future teachers, scientists, engineers, and doctors.

NACME helps those students find their way along the pathway to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Teachers

As the old saying goes, “Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible.” That is never truer than when it comes to preparing the next generations of engineers. What you teach today is what young people will use to invent and innovate tomorrow.

NACME.org is a resource-rich hub for information about engineering, engineering careers, and engineering colleges that you can share with your students. Take advantage of the Engineering Awareness Material publications, especially our Guide to Engineering for Parents, Teachers, and Guidance Counselors.

Counselors

School counselors play a critical role in putting students on the pathway to successful engineering careers. It’s up to you to encourage students with talent in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) area to consider focusing their high school and college studies on engineering.

When you’re a school counselor, however, your day may be full of meetings, discipline referrals, and hundreds of questions from students who need help deciding what steps to take in their academic careers. NACME offers you information about engineering careers and the pathways to engineering degrees that you can share with your students. It also includes materials that they can explore on their own.

With the Princeton Review, for example, NACME has published The NACME Guide to Engineering Colleges, which profiles hundreds of American engineering colleges. Download a free copy as well as additional engineering awareness resources from our publications, page. NACME STEM Innovation Grants are also available for counselors as an extra resource for promoting engineering in your school.

For information on scholarships, please visit NACME Student Scholarships.