Searched the OM for all occurrences of the word “secretary” and reported on what the executive secretary’s job description is
Key aspects of the job include taking and distributing minutes and managing the admin site
Practice and documentation are almost always different – as I learn the job I will gradually focus in on how I can best serve the society in this role
Goal suggestion / conversation
Minutes on web site, presentations on web site
Monthly update to key member list
Make clear whether a vote passed or not
Founders award was retracted but it went through a complete vote and passed
Saralyn can put minutes on web site
Could launch an action tracker of actions come out of a vote – need to ensure there is follow through
We have a shared responsibility (Pres and sec) to make sure actions are done
Old action items are OBE
3Director Reports
3.1Education and Professional Development
Chuck Muniak
Copied job description from OM
Accomplishments
Professional development and educational committees
Body of Knowledge (BOK) – committee formed
Met with NASA to understand their body of knowledge
Defined opportunities for member licensing and professional certification
INCOSE – certification – financial obligations – kind of high – 60K ish
Optimistic assumptions regarding how many people are interested
While license is not financially doable, there are mutually beneficial things we can do with INCOSE to promote both system engineering and system safety – we need to capture the body of knowledge
We let INCOSE know that we are not going to pursue a professional certification at this time
Coordinate nomination and selection of society awards
Zero nominations for engineer of the year, three nominations for manager of the year, four nominations for educator of the year, one for scientific R & D, two for International award (Chuck to follow up with Tony regarding a missing nomination for engineer of the year)
Develop professional courses and establish committee of instructors
Provide direction to liaison reps to Board of Certified safety Professionals
OVPs – Rani Kady, Russ Mitchell, Anthony Burno, Daniel Strub
Develop criteria for CEUs
Question – could we sell journal / conference pubs to universities that might benefit from safety program?
Have not made an effort to do this
Maintain a continuity binder – no activity
Challenges / Issues
BOK effort involves a diverse group across time zones and requires extra effort to coordinate
Looked at updating old system safety handbook – decided to try for a new, shorter book
Need to get an exact number to account for the case where all awards are actually awarded
Side note – we are 14 plaques behind for fellow members – we need to catch up – folks who paid money need to get the plaque
Folks who did not pay money should be notified of cost of plaque or address this in some way
To discuss during next monthly meeting
Need to re-evaluate list
Discussion regarding cost and quality of plaques
$2000 for educational and professional activities
Discussion regarding distribution of INCOSE system engineering handbook – need to distribute this to the development team so that we can develop a new book that complements the INCOSE book. Need to ensure we follow our agreement with INCOSE and follow all applicable copyright laws.
Discussion regarding benefit of investments – this is not in the draft budget at this point
Schedule for handbook – target completion Dec 2014
