Friday,
March 5, 2004
Pittsburgh
Hyatt Airport Hotel
2004 TEC,
Pittsburgh, PA
MEETING MINUTES
1. CALL TO
ORDER AND INTRODUCTIONS
VP Moore called the meeting to order at 1:00 p.m. and introductions
were made. The list of attendees is
shown in Attachment A.
2. APPROVAL
OF AGENDA
The meeting Agenda was approved as presented.
3. APPROVAL
OF MINUTES
With respect to the minutes of the November 18, 2003
meeting, E. Manes pointed out that the MAL nomination of P. Hajela has been
changed to A. Bicos. Having noted the
MAL nomination change, the November 18, 2003 meeting minutes were approved as
distributed.
ACTION
ITEM: E. Manes to send
the three (3) MAL nominations made at the November 18, 2003 Board meeting to
all members for voting, stating requirement that nominees must be able to
attend all Board meetings.
4. REPORT
& COMMENTS OF VICE PRESIDENT
A.
What to Expect at TEC’04
VP Moore asked everyone to provide
feedback regarding their TEC experience, as well as how to make ASME better for
the members.
VP Moore announced that discussions
are taking place concerning revenue sharing to divisions for proceedings.
With respect to Congress revenue sharing, Attachment
B is an analysis of 2002 and 2003 session attendance (based on badge
scanning). It was noted that although
these are not the numbers used for revenue share calculations, they do show
an attendance increase for E&T divisions.
E. Manes brought up J. Austin’s
idea for a joint EED/SWPD journal. VP
Moore noted that the Publications Committee’s concern is getting a good editor
to do the work. N. Egosi remarked that
he was not aware of the proposed journal.
VP Moore distributed proposed re-org
(Attachment C), noting that divisions
are now included in the diagram. She
also reported that the BOG has assured, in writing, that custodial accounts
are not available for ASME use. This lead to a discussion on:
Full-Cost Accounting
VP Moore made reference to a point paper before the COE Budget Committee on key budget issues associated with the transition to full cost accounting as part of the continuity and change initiative. (See Attachment D). She noted that a request was made to provide a clear breakdown of staff time and costs for discussion at this TEC. It was stressed that, as of now, divisions can begin submitting business plans on how they want to spend their custodial account funds, to be approved by the Group VP. Staff will still handle contracts, etc.
J. Austin presented an estimate of
the amount of staff time dedicated to support SWPD (Attachment
E). By his estimates, staff time to support the
SWPD is about 9%, not 35% as reflected in the full-cost accounting breakdown
provided to the Division. He added
that it is important not to expect divisions to support staff costs for things
not directly related to divisions.
5. OLD BUSINESS
VP Moore pressed for Division
Annual Reports & Plans that were due at this meeting. With respect to the “7 Questions” posed at
the January 27, 2003 Group exercise on assessing division markets, VP Moore
requested all divisions to submit their answers as soon as possible and to
begin using that information for long range planning purposes.
6. DIVISION
REPORTS
J. Robinson reported on behalf of
A. Bicos (Attachment F).
He added that the division operations guide has been updated and that
he is trying to negotiate revenue sharing with AIAA and other societies for
conferences that Aerospace participates in.
He also noted that Aerospace is interested in getting additional sessions
at IMECE ’04.
There was no report.
R. Marboe submitted a report on NCAD
activities (Attachment G), which
includes the IMECE’04 session schedule (Attachment
H) and answers to the “7 Questions” (Attachment
I). He noted that although the division had a great program at IMECE’03
with presentations on issues people said they want to hear about, there was
little attendance. This lead to a
discussion on the need to for divisions to vertically market their sessions
and not rely only on Congress promotional efforts.
A. Bieber remarked that the RTD
does not yet have a long-range plan, per se, other than to continue doing what
they’re doing better. Membership is
area where they can improve, especially overseas. He added that RTD produced a total of 45 papers given at 17
technical sessions between IMECE’03 and ICED’03. There was a discussion on how SWPD and RTD can work together on
rail-haul of solid waste at an SWPD sponsored workshop. VP Moore also suggested
that RTD get “lessons learned” from Gary Benda on what he has done
internationally with the very successful ICEM conference.
N. Egosi reported that SWPD had a
joint meeting with EED in August 2003 in Hartford. They’re currently working on NAWTEC’04 (expecting 32 papers,
including from overseas and academia), where they will be presenting their
facility awards. The SWPD Scholarship rules have been updated to increase the
number of applicants and also doing more one-on-one contacts with
universities. He noted that Division
membership is very low. The problem is
that the industry has changed and there isn’t sufficient value in SWPD to meet
today’s industry needs (information that is directly applicable to day-to-day
business). SWPD rented an exhibit booth
at WasteCon’03 in May to get exposure to a larger audience. Also reaching out to academia to get them
involved in SWPD programming. For
example, they convinced the WTERT, a consortium of five universities, to
participate in NAWTEC. E. Manes added
that the division also sponsored the WTERT to review ASME PTC-34 and asked them
to work with the ASME CRTD on potential research projects.
8. STANDING
COMMITTEE REPORTS
There was not report.
ACTION ITEM: E. Manes to call MAL’s to nominate
replacement for T. Bonano.
J. Robinson noted that he had not
received anything from divisions.
ACTION ITEM: E. Manes to give J. Robinson and R. Marboe answers to “7 Questions” and Division Annual Reports/Plans from which to compile a master document to serve as clearing house of ideas for group.
R. Marboe submitted a written report
(Attachment J).
He noted that getting a division membership demographics report specific
to NCAD helped identify other divisions to work with and recommended others
to use it.
H. Scarton distributed chart of SWPD
organization (Attachment K).
It was then,
MOVED: To
approve current version of SWPD bylaws.
H. Scarton also noted that EED
needs to update its bylaws.
9. LIAISON
REPRESENTATIVE REPORTS
E. Manes read from written report submitted by A. Moghissi (Attachment L).
VP Moore said committee is looking for people to become lecturers and asked that nominees be sent to her attention.
E. Manes read from written report submitted by A. Moghissi (Attachment L).
VP Moore said 10 sessions are available at IMECE’04 if any division is interested. Attachment M is a report received from M. Hastings post meeting.
There was no report.
ACTION ITEM: E. Manes to contact S. Buckley because he has not been active in CTP and, if he cannot attend, to ask MAL’s if they want to replace S. Buckley as liaison.
10. ASME STAFF
REPORT
E. Manes reported on staffing changes at ASME resulting from
the re-org, noting Burton Dicht as new Director of Engineering Enterprises and
Elizabeth Ely as Managing Director of Meetings & Exhibits.
11. NEW BUSINESS
Larry Dickinson solicited
Group about organizing sessions/symposia at IMECE’04 on applications of
composites materials on rail, solid waste, etc., to get an industry perspective
on needs. He asked interested Divisions to contact him directly.
12. NEXT MEETING
Next E&TG Board meeting will be at IMECE’04 in
Anaheim. There was concern about the
Board meeting overlapping division-sponsored sessions.
ACTION
ITEM: E. Manes to look
at the IMECE’04 session schedule and set the date the Board meeting to be the
day before sessions start and advise members accordingly.
13. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting adjourned at 5:20 p.m.
Respectfully submitted,
Elio A. Manes
Secretary for the Board