A message from Steve Gardner, 2024 President of the National Leadership of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME):
It has been my honor to serve as the 2024 President of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME). As such I selected Lexington for our Annual Board meeting on Thursday, August 7, 2025, where we are able to combine the meeting with the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME) Central Appalachian Section’s 38th Annual Professional Engineers in Mining (PEM) Seminar on Friday, August 8, 2025.
Also, please note the joint reception with AIME board and PEM attendees at the James B. Beam Institute distillery on the UK campus Thursday August 7.
The Leadership of AIME’s member societies have agreed to lead off the PEM seminar morning session with updates and overviews of each society and how each work for the betterment of society in the energy and materials sectors:
National Leadership of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) and Member Societies
- Steve Gardner, 2024 AIME President and 2015 SME President
- Barbette Barlow, AIME Executive Director
Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST)
- Ron Ashburn, AIST Executive Director
- Ron O’Malley, AIME President Elect & AIST Past President 2019-2021
Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE)
- Simon Seaton, SPE Executive Director
- Shauna Noonan, AIME President Elect Designate & 2020 SPE President
The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
- Jim Robinson, Executive Director
- Brad Boyce, AIME Trustee & 2023 TMS President
Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (SME)
- Dave Kanagy, Executive Director
- Bill Hancock, 2025 SME President
The afternoon session features the leadership of the Kentucky Energy & Environment Cabinet Department for Natural Resources in a Roundtable on Oil, Gas & Mining issues. The Seminar also features several other technical presentations on mining, environmental and regulatory issues, all for 8 hours of continuing education credits or PDH’s. I would like to personally invite you and your membership/staff to register and attend either the reception and/or seminar. It will be an opportunity to meet others in person from similar fields who trace their origins to the founding of AIME in 1871, one of the country’s first engineering and professional societies.