A Chair and a Vice Chair, elected from within and by the members of the Committee may serve renewable terms of one year. The Committee is supported in its work by the Staff in the ASME Member Records and Information Services Department. Additional meetings or teleconferences of the Committee or its subcommittees may be scheduled as required within budget. Under the direction and guidance of the Committee, Staff processes the applications for membership and applications for change in membership grade. On a bi-monthly basis, representative applications which have been processed by Staff are reviewed by the Committee to ensure that the guidelines for the various grades of membership are being followed.
Staff contacts the initiator to correct any deficiencies before processing the proposal further.
On a monthly basis, Staff distributes Fellow proposals to the Committee members. They evaluate the proposals, assigning a score to each proposal in accordance with the Committee's guidelines and also providing any appropriate comments. Staff also mails the results to all members of the Admissions Committee for information purposes. Members of the Admissions Committee shall not initiate or sponsor a Fellow proposal during their terms. The various grades of Society membership are specified in Articles C3.1.1 through C3.1.9 in the ASME Constitution.