The National Arab American Association of Engineers and Architects, NAAAEA, is a professional Arab American association dedicated to help, strengthen, empower and inspire its members for excellence. NAAAEA promotes and advocates the Arab American Engineers, Architects and Information Technology professionals in the United States, by providing career and educational enhancement programs, technical exchange, fellowship, and community service. NAAAEA is a non-profit, non-political and non-religious Professional Association.

In the fall of 1996, a group of individuals gathered to discuss the need for an organization to serve the interests of Arab American Engineers and Architects in the Chicagoland area.   After a year of planning, they convened more than fifty (50) engineers and architects to elect the first board of directors for the newly founded Arab-American Association of Engineers and Architects (AAAEA).   Shortly after, the organization was registered with the State of Illinois as a non-profit professional organization.

On the 11th day of November, 2006, the first organization for Arab engineers, architects and information technology professionals convened for its first national conference. The conference was attended by its ambitious members who created a 5-Year Plan, and a steering committee that would help implement this plan was created in September, 2007.

Five years later, on the 11th day of November 2011, the National AAAEA is able to announce its success in seeing through the 5-Year plan to completion.  It was through the extraordinary efforts of the Chicago chapter and other notable members that the AAAEA across the nation was able to reach every milestone in this process and fulfill the dream of “Going National Together.” For the first time, Arab students and professionals in the engineering, architecture, and information technology fields have an organization.