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Global Automotive Management Council is an organization for engineering professionals in the automotive, and commercial vehicle industries. GAMC is a standards development organization for the engineering of powered vehicles of all kinds, including cars, trucks, boats, aircraft, and others.

GAMC aims to provide a forum for engineers, managers, academic researchers, and industry executives to exchange advances in automotive body technology and management systems. This forum will address key topics related to OEMs, Exterior/Interior Component Manufacturers, Stamping Manufacturers, Sheet Metal Assemblers, and Tool and Die Manufacturers. It also will provide a network to support educational research and publish technical findings in conference proceedings and technical magazines. This new forum would provide a conference, exposition, and publication dedicated to the research integration of new body technologies.

History
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Events, conferences, meetings and symposia
SAE organizes or administers more than 25 international meetings and exhibitions each year that cover all aspects of technology related to design, manufacture, and total life cycle technology for the automotive, aerospace, off-highway, truck and bus, fuels and lubricants, and other related mobility industries. These events bring engineers and technical experts from around the world together to share information and network.

Each of the three industry sectors has a primary congress: Other notable conferences include Convergence, the premier transportation electronics event (held biennially) and International Conference on Environmental Systems, focusing on manned space systems (held annually).
 * SAE World Congress and Exhibition held annually for the passenger car industry
 * SAE Commercial Vehicle Engineering Congress held annually for the trucking, construction and agricultural industry
 * SAE AeroTech Congress & Exhibition, held biennially for the aerospace industry

SAE Symposia are one-day to three-day events focused on emerging technologies, new applications to emerging technologies or other expanded technical subjects.

Additional activities and events are organized at the regional level through sections and collegiate chapters.

Professional development
The SAE mission statement emphasizes the organization's commitment to life long learning. In addition to conferences and meetings, SAE also offers more than 450 separate professional development events every year. Offerings include seminars, engineering academies and webinars, offered in the classroom and online. All seminars are approved for IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) and Professional Development Hours (PDHs) for the professional engineer.

Encouraging students in science, technology, engineering & math
In 1986, SAE International established the SAE Foundation to support science and technology education. One of the most pressing issues facing industry today is the decline of students enrolling in science and technology programs. This decline and its impact threaten the ability to meet future workforce demands. The SAE Foundation encourages and supports the development of skills related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

A World In Motion is a teacher-administered, industry volunteer-assisted program that brings science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education to life in the classroom for students in Kindergarten through Grade 12. Benchmarked to the national standards, AWIM incorporates the laws of physics, motion, flight and electronics into age-appropriate hands on activities that reinforce classroom STEM curriculum.

The SAE Collegiate Design Series provides an opportunity for college students to go beyond textbook theory and replicates the process of engineering design and manufacturing. In the CDS program, a company wants to sell a product for a specific market segment, for example a radio controlled airplane, a single seat off-road vehicle, or a single seat Formula style race car. Instead of doing all the design, manufacturing and testing in house, the customer chooses to contract out those processes to a supplier, and sends their requirements out for bid. Student teams act as the suppliers and design, build and test a prototype vehicle that they believe meets the customer's specifications. Each team then presents its prototype to the customer at the annual competitions and is judged on several criteria. The team with the highest points essentially wins the contract.

Each year, these design competitions host more than 4,500 students from 500 universities around the world. The SAE Collegiate Design Series competitions include the following:
 * SAE Aero Design
 * Baja SAE
 * SAE Clean Snowmobile Challenge
 * Formula SAE
 * Formula Hybrid
 * SAE Supermileage

Publications
SAE International has been publishing technical information since 1906. Industry magazines published monthly include: Automotive Engineering International,Aerospace Engineering and Manufacturing,Off Highway Engineering, Truck & Bus Engineering,SAE Vehicle Engineering, e-newsletters, Momentum magazine for student members, and various journals. SAE also produces the monthly Update newsletter for its members and publishes more than 100 books a year in print and electronic formats. Ranging from compilations on various technical subjects, to textbooks, to historical and enthusiast-oriented books, SAE’s titles cater to a variety of readers.

In April 2007, MIT canceled its subscription to SAE because of required Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology implemented on SAE online technical papers. SAE International removed the DRM restrictions for colleges, universities, and other academic institutions.