The National Association of Industrial Technology: Origins and Leadership for the Future

This article is one of a continuing series on professional organizations that serve the technology professions. The first in this series on the National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators (NAITTE) by S. D. Johnson, R. N. Evans, and J. Stern appeared in the journal’s Summer/Fall 1996 issue. This was followed by a special section on the MVITEC in the Winter/Spring 1997 issue, Wright’s article on the CTTE in the Summer/Fall 1997 issue, and Starkweather’s article on the ITEA in the Summer/Fall 1998 issue.

Future issues will carry more such articles to provide members of the technology professions a comprehensive portrait of professional organizations that exist throughout the world. Some serve students, others industrial and business practitioners, and others are devoted to teachers on various educational levels.

The progress and strength of the professions in technology rely on the dynamics of viable professional organizations. We believe it is in the readers’ interests to participate in, contribute to, and enjoy the professional benefits of one or more of these organizations as appropriate to the individual’s status and needs within a technology profession.

It should be of interest that in 1984 the NAIT constitution was amended to recognize Epsilon Pi Tau as its official honorary organization and this relationship continues. JS