The Engineering Center Services

Learn more about how your association can join The Engineering Center or how you can join our member associations.

Why Choose The Engineering Center?

• TEC has almost 20 years of experience managing trade associations and professional societies of differing degrees, size and scope.
• TEC is home to many associations and societies of different sizes in the engineering, land surveying, environmental and transportation fields. Associations in these fields benefit from the cooperation, coalition building, government affairs activities and shared staff with organizations in related fields.
• TEC relieves board leaders of administrative details.
• TEC managers know what it is like to be a volunteer society leader. Several of TEC’s senior managers currently serve or have served as volunteer leaders on a board of directors representing their industry/profession.
• TEC provides its association partners with experienced, professional leaders in association management and administrative support.
• TEC offers its association partners economy of scale. The service and professional expertise provided at TEC is at a fraction of the cost of maintaining their own offices and employees.
• TEC offers solid experience in event management, including years of experience with contract negotiations for annual conventions and a number of smaller meetings.  We have strong business relationships with a number of eastern Massachusetts hotels and conference centers, plus experience working with many other facilities.

The Engineering Center, a not-for profit association management company, provides educational programs and information services to engineers, land surveyors, related professionals and the public.

TEC’s Services

The Engineering Center offers a range of association management services, depending on an association’s needs. Contact us to learn more.

• Membership Services: TEC provides database management and maintenance, dues processing and coordination;
• State-of-the-Art Association Management System: In August 2004, TEC implemented a new association management system called ClearVantage for membership management, event management, publication and product sales and other services.
• State-of-the-Art Financial Management System: In July 2004, we converted our financial management system to Solomon, a well-known accounting package owned by Microsoft. ClearVantage and Solomon work together, enabling TEC staff to produce quality reports for our clients.
• Secure Events Registration: On this web site, members of our associations can register for events and programs.
• Event Management: We manage national, regional and statewide special events, technical seminars, programs and conferences from planning to promotion to implementation.
• TEC Events Calendar: You can find information about the many programs and meetings of our member associations on this comprehensive events calendar.
• Publications and Web Sites: TEC produces newsletters and brochures for our member associations, manage some of their web sites and coordinate other communication products.
• Financial Management: TEC’s financial staff prepares monthly and annual financial statements, processes accounts payable and receivable, prepares budgets, works with our outside auditor on tax forms and annual audits and works with outside investment managers to protect and grow associations assets.
• Visibility and Networking: From our work on the Annual Design Professionals Day at the State House and Engineers Week activities, to Construction Career Days and other promotional events, we promote the member associations to the media, public sector leaders and the public in general.
• Research: We conduct practical, applied research to improve the value of engineering work to the public.
• Meeting Space: Through our first floor Aldrich Conference Center at One Walnut Street, home of The Engineering Center, we provide internal and local meeting space, along with meeting management.
• Library: Our on-site research library provides up-to-date industry trade and consumer publications and historical technical reference materials.
• Outreach: We work closely with our member associations to promote activities for students to learn more about the engineering and land surveying professions. From individual classroom visits to Construction Career Days, the annual Model Bridge Competition and our Scholarship Resource page, we work to help students, parents and materials find the resources and people who can help them learn about the true value of our members’ work.
• Public Relations: We provide media and editorial expertise to our member associations;
• Communication: We coordinate communication to our members through broadcast emails and mailings. We provide a mailing address home for our member associations and provide a mail forwarding service to key member association leaders, giving our members a recognized address for association business.
• Office Administration: TEC provides the staff, benefits, administration, computer systems, financial management, office space, furniture and equipment needed.
• Building Administration:  TEC provides the staff and management to The Engineering Center Education Trust. We manage our historic home at One Walnut Street including the Aldrich Conference Center.