SPPEEx is an incorporated society, set up in 2004 to support Maori & Pacific Island Engineers.  SPPEEx is based in New Zealand with membership open to Maori & Pacific Island Engineering Professionals all over the globe. A key focus of the organization is the advancement of the Maori and Pacific people and increasing the awareness of indigenous technology in the Engineering profession.

Maori and Pacific people are under-represented in the engineering profession so one of the main focuses of this group is to increase the number of Maori and Pacific engineers and engineering studients. We envisage this being achieved through the advancement o the status of professional engineers within the Maori and Pacific communities; enabling the profession to assist these communities using the unique skills and knowledge that engineers possess; facilitating the transfer of indigenous technology and ideas into the mainstream; and by supporting the professional development of our members.

To achieve this, SPPEEx seeks to offer a range of activities with the following objectives in mind:

• Promoting professional engineering to target the needs of communities through projects and research;

• Identifying and encouraging potential Maori and Pacific engineering students;

• Facilitating the establishment of scholarships for Maori and Pacific engineering students;

• Providing career mentoring to engineering students and recent graduates;

• Through research and seminars expose, develop and promote indigenous technologies and practice;

• Develop networks amongst indigenous engineers of the Pacific and further abroad e.g. Native Americans engineers; and

• Represent the position of indigenous engineers to IPENZ and the Tertiary Education Commission.

Te Whakapapa me nga taonga tukuiho...Kia mau tonu ki nga whakapapa, ki o tatou whenua, me nga taonga tukuiho.
Hold fast to our lands, our treasures and our identity.