The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) is a

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for

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and metallurgy, with over 145,000 members. It was founded in 1871 by 22 mining engineers in

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, being one of the first national engineering societies in the country. Its charter is to "advance and disseminate, through the programs of the Member Societies, knowledge of engineering and the arts and sciences involved in the production and use of minerals, metals, energy sources and materials for the benefit of humankind." It is the parent organization of four Member Societies, the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME),

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(TMS), the

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(AIST), and the

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(SPE). The organization is currently based in

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History

Known by its original name '
American Institute of Mining Engineers
'' (AIME) the institute had a membership at the beginning of 1915 of over 5,000, made up of honorary, elected, and associate members. The annual meeting of the institute was held in February, with other meetings during the year as authorized by the council. The institute published three volumes of ''Transactions'' annually and a monthly ''Bulletin'' which appeared on the first of each month. The headquarters of the institute was in the Engineering Building in

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. Following creation of the Petroleum Division in 1922, the Iron and Steel Division in 1928 and the Institute of Metals Division in 1933 the name of the society was changed in 1957 to the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers. Three of the current member societies were then created from the divisions, increasing to four in 1974 when the Iron and Steel Society (ISS) was formed. In 2004 ISS merged with the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE) to form the

(AIST) whilst remaining a member society of AIME.

Awards

The society awards some 25 awards every year at the annual conference. In addition, the member societies also disburse their own awards, including the

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, awarded by SME jointly with American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Presidents

The following individuals have held the position of President of this organization. * 1871: David Thomas * 1872–1874: Rossiter Worthington Raymond * 1875:

Alexander Lyman Holley Alexander Lyman Holley (Lakeville, Connecticut, July 20, 1832 – Brooklyn, New York, January 29, 1882) was an American mechanical engineer, inventor, and founding member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He was consider ...

* 1876: Abram Stevens Hewitt * 1877:

Thomas Sterry Hunt Thomas Sterry Hunt (September 5, 1826February 12, 1892) was an American geologist and chemist. Biography Hunt was born at Norwich, Connecticut. He lost his father when twelve years old, and had to earn his own livelihood. In the course of two ye ...

* 1878–1879:

Eckley Brinton Coxe Eckley Brinton Coxe (June 4, 1839 – May 13, 1895) was an American mining engineer, coal baron, state senator and philanthropist from Pennsylvania. He was a co-founder of the Coxe Brothers and Company coal mining operation which became the lar ...

* 1880:

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* 1881: William Metcalf * 1882:

Richard Pennefather Rothwell Richard Pennefather Rothwell (May 1, 1836 – April 17, 1901) was a Canadian-American civil, mechanical and mining engineer. He was the co-founder of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, and was awarded the gold medal at the Paris Exposit ...

* 1883:

Robert Woolston Hunt Robert Woolston Hunt (December 9, 1838 – July 11, 1923) was an American metallurgical engineer, inventor, and superintendent in the steel industry. He is known as president of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1883 and 1906; presiden ...

* 1884–1885:

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* 1886:

Robert Hallowell Richards Robert Hallowell Richards (August 26, 1844 – March 27, 1945) was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, and educator, born at Gardiner, Maine. In 1868, with the first class to leave the institution, he graduated from the Massachusetts ...

* 1887:

Thomas Egleston Thomas Egleston (December 9, 1832 – January 15, 1900) was an American engineer who helped found Columbia University's School of Mines, now the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Throughout his lifetime, Egleston publis ...

* 1888:

William Bleeker Potter William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...

* 1889: Richard Pearce * 1890: Abram Stevens Hewitt * 1891–1892:

John Birkinbine John Birkinbine (November 16, 1844 – May 14, 1915) was an American mining engineer who worked alongside Thomas Edison during 1881 at the Edison Ore-Milling Company. Early life Birkinbine was born November 16, 1844 in Reading, Pennsylvania ...

* 1893:

Henry Marion Howe Henry Marion Howe (Boston, 2 March 1848 – Bedford Hills, New York, 14 May 1922) was an American metallurgist, the son of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe. Education Howe attended the Boston Latin School, class of 1865, then Harvard Coll ...

* 1894:

John Fritz John F. Fritz (August 21, 1822 – February 13, 1913) was an American pioneer of iron and steel technologySandra E. Duffy (2012Fritz Lab: Not Just for Chicks from Pennsylvania State University who has been referred to as the "Father of the U.S. S ...

* 1895: Joseph D. Weeks * 1896: Edmund Gybbon Spilsbury * 1897: Thomas Messinger Drown * 1898: Charles Kirchhoff * 1899–1900: James Douglas * 1901–1902:

Eben Erskine Olcott Eben Erskine Olcott (March 11, 1854 – June 7, 1929) was an American mining engineer. He was president of the Hudson River Day Line and served as two-time president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers in 1 ...

* 1903: Albert Reid Ledoux * 1904–1905: James Gayley * 1906:

* 1907–1908:

John Hays Hammond John Hays Hammond (March 31, 1855 – June 8, 1936) was an American mining engineer, diplomat, and philanthropist. He amassed a sizable fortune before the age of 40. An early advocate of deep mining, Hammond was given complete charge of Ce ...

* 1909–1910:

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* 1911: Charles Kirchhoff * 1912:

James Furman Kemp James Furman Kemp (August 14, 1859 – November 17, 1926) was an American geologist. Early life He was born in New York City and graduated from Amherst in 1881 and from the Columbia School of Mines in 1884. Amherst gave him an honorary Sc.D. i ...

* 1913: Charles Frederic Rand * 1914:

Benjamin Bowditch Thayer Benjamin Bowditch Thayer (October 20, 1862 – February 22, 1933) was a vice president of Anaconda Copper and served on the Naval Consulting Board. He was president of the New York Society of Harvard Engineers. Biography He was born on October ...

* 1915: William Lawrence Saunders * 1916: Louis Davidson Ricketts * 1917: Philip North Moore * 1918: Sidney Johnston Jennings * 1919: Horace Vaughn Winchell * 1920:

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* 1921: Edwin Ludlow * 1922: Arthur Smith Dwight * 1923: Edward Payson Mathewson * 1924: William Kelly * 1925: John van Wicheren Reynders * 1926: Samuel A. Taylor * 1927: Everette Lee DeGolyer * 1928:

George Otis Smith George Otis Smith (February 22, 1871 – January 10, 1944) was an American geologist. Life and career Smith was born in Hodgdon, Maine. He graduated from Colby College in 1893 and earned a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1896. He s ...

* 1929: Frederick Worthen Bradley * 1930: William Hastings Bassett * 1931: Robert Emmet Tally * 1932: Scott Turner * 1933: Frederick Mark Becket * 1934: Howard Nicholas Eavenson * 1935: Henry Andrew Buehler * 1936: John Meston Lovejoy * 1937: Rolland Craten Allen * 1938:

Daniel Cowan Jackling Daniel Cowan Jackling (August 14, 1869 – March 13, 1956), was an American mining and metallurgical engineer who pioneered the exploitation of low-grade porphyry copper ores at the Bingham Canyon Mine, Utah. Biography Early life Born near ...

* 1939: Donald Burton Gillies * 1940: Herbert George Moulton * 1941: John Robert Suman * 1942: Eugene McAuliffe * 1943: Champion Herbert Mathewson * 1944: Chester Alan Fulton * 1945:

Harvey Seeley Mudd Harvey Seeley Mudd (30 August 1888– 12 April 1955) was a mining engineer and founder, investor, and president of Cyprus Mines Corporation, a Los Angeles–based international enterprise that operated copper mines on the island of Cyprus. Mudd ...

* 1946: Louis S. Cates * 1947: Clyde Williams * 1948:

William Embry Wrather William Embry Wrather (January 20, 1883 – November 28, 1963) was an American geologist. Biography He was born on a farm near Brandenburg in Meade County, Kentucky on January 20, 1883. He died in his home in Washington, DC on Thursday, Nove ...

* 1949: Lewis Emanuel Young * 1950: Donald Hamilton McLaughlin * 1951: Willis McGerald Peirce * 1952: Michael Lawrence Haider * 1953: Andrew Fletcher * 1954: Leo Frederick Reinartz * 1955: Henry DeWitt Smith * 1956: Carl Ernest Reistle Jr. * 1957: Grover Justine Holt * 1958:

Augustus Braun Kinzel Augustus Braun Kinzel (July 26, 1900 – October 23, 1987) was a noted American metallurgist and first president of the National Academy of Engineering. Biography Kinzel was born in New York City. He received his A.B. in mathematics from Columbia ...

* 1959: Howard Carter Pyle * 1960: Joseph Lincoln Gillson * 1961: Ronald Russel McNaughton * 1962: Lloyd E. Elkins * 1963: Roger Vern Pierce * 1964: Karl Leroy Fetters * 1965: Thomas Corwin Frick * 1966: William Bishop Stephenson * 1967: Walter R. Hibbard Jr. * 1968: John Robertson McMillan * 1969: James Boyd * 1970: John C. Kinnear * 1971: John Smith Bell * 1972: Dennis L. McElroy * 1973: James B. Austin * 1974: Wayne E. Glenn * 1975: James D. Reilly * 1976: Julius J. Harwood * 1977: H. Arthur Nedom * 1978: Wayne L. Dowdey * 1979: William H. Wise * 1980: M. Scott Kraemer * 1981: Robert H. Merrill * 1982: Harold W. Paxton * 1983: Edward E. Runyan * 1984: Nelson Severinghaus, Jr. * 1985: Norman T. Mills * 1986: Arlen L. Edgar * 1987: Alan Lawley * 1988: Thomas V. Falkie * 1989: Howard N. Hubbard, Jr. * 1990: Donald G. Russell * 1991: Milton E. Wadsworth * 1992: Roshan B. Bhappu * 1993: G. Hugh Walker * 1994: Noel D. Rietman * 1995: Frank V. Nolfi, Jr. * 1996: Donald W. Gentry * 1997: Leonard G. Nelson * 1998: Roy H. Koerner * 1999: Paul G. Campbell, Jr. * 2000: Robert E. Murray * 2001: Grant P. Schneider * 2002: George H. Sawyer * 2003: Robert H. Wagoner * 2004: Robert C. Freas * 2005: Alan W. Cramb * 2006: James R. Jorden * 2007: Dan J. Thoma * 2008: Michael Karmis * 2009: Ian Sadler * 2010: DeAnn Craig * 2011: Brajendra Mishra * 2012: George W. Luxbacher * 2013: Dale Heinz * 2014: Behrooz Fattahi * 2015: Garry W. Warren * 2016: Nikhil Trivedi * 2017: John G. Speer

Vice presidents

*1893–1894:

Robert Gilmour Leckie Robert Gilmour Leckie (23 August 1833 – 5 November 1914) was a Scottish-born Canadian major who may almost be described as the father of mining engineering in Canada. He had a long and professional career as a mining engineer in the Canadian p ...

Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration

The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME) is for mining professionals.

''Mining Engineering'' magazine

The Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration publishes the monthly magazine ''Mining Engineering'' since 1949.

References

External links

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