Group Vision
A tightly knit group of Divisions providing the membership:

• Forums to facilitate cross discipline fertilization
• Research
• Education
• Effective means for technology transfer
• Publication
• Software
• Courses
• Competitions
• Presentations
• Identification/evaluation of emerging technologies
• Product
• Process
• Formal processes to encourage and support new initiatives
• Organizational
• Functional
• Responsiveness to US strategic concerns
• QCD
• Conservation 

Group Mission
The mission of the ASME Systems and Design Groups is to:

• Foster Divisions' abilities to serve all of our members (customers) well
• Provide a process to foster interdivisional synergy
• Provide ASME membership with an integrated view of the involved technical disciplines and their relevance
• Define and support process to enable widespread utilization of new/classical technologies and approaches
• Identify "emerging" technologies and common research needs
• Provide a "spawning" ground for new entrepreneurial initiative