January 2016 Minutes

SAWE Canada Chapter

Executive Meeting Minutes: Telecom Wednesday January 20th, 2015, 12:15 pm to 1:00 pm

 Attendees: R. VanDyke, R. Hargrave, D. Stansfield, K. Lacroix, W. Kiskunas, A. Tang

1)           Current Discussion

• SAWE Regional Fall Conference Planning – 2016 
  • Discussion regarding who will be involved with the sponsorship for this conference?
    • Rick Watkins is putting together a brochure for new sponsorship.  Rod to send out sponsorship list of companies to committee. Response received from Aero Montreal (ie. Helene V. Gagnon).
    • Refer to Aero Montreal site (http://www.aeromontreal.ca/homepage/) for potential sponsors. Knowledge Management – Fassi & R. Hargrave
    • Rod pickup discussion with David and sent request to Aero Montreal… awaiting response….
    • Verify if companies have AV equipment which they can loan / contract out to us for the conference.
    • From SAWE International, there is a standardized letter for sponsorship.
    • ACTION : R. Hargrave, W. Kiskunas, R. vanDyke, K. Lacroix – OPEN
  • Discussion regarding opening up a bank account in Montreal.
    • Will the bank account be in US or CAD dollars? Canadian Funds was agreed by R. Fox
    • April to give different bank options. Discussion around signing authority on account and if we will have 2 accounts. A. Tang contacted R. Hargrave and K. Lacroix to add them to the account.
    • ACTION: A. Tang, R. vanDyke & Executive – OPEN
  • 2017 SAWE International Conference Planning Document folder
    • Has been added to Canadian SAWE website for the International planning committee ACTION:- CLOSED
  • Registration Committee meeting with C. Vidakovic and J. Ramos to be set up with the US Chapter Registration counterparts_ Date to be confirmed??. April to attend this registration meeting. Webex training to occur so waiting for US to approach C. Vidakovic and J. Ramos. ACTION: Executive – OPEN

 SAWE International Conference Planning– Montreal – 2017

• Review Roles and Responsibilities for conference during 2015 SAWE monthly meeting.
  • Training – R. Hargrave and W. Kiskunas are secondary contacts for training in support of A. Lyczko. ACTION: Executive – CLOSED
  • Contact Keith Brewer and Ed Quinn regarding Ship Inclination ACTION : Executive – OPEN
  • Speak with Victor Feret from Bombardier Transportation ACTION : R. Hargrave
• Sponsorship Discussion.
  • Who is responsible?
  • ACTION: Executive – OPEN
• Guest speaker discussion (ex. Marc Andre Valiquette).
  • M. Valiquette interested in speaking during the 2016 conference as well.
  • Possibly Marc Andre would be interested in doing a dry run to get feedback
  • ACTION: R. vanDyke & Executive – OPEN
• Conference Planning Template
  • R. vanDyke has created an initial template for each International committee planning discipline which is to be filled in by each discipline and sent back to him.  Still progressing, recent update on registration by Cviko
    • When master file is complete, and will add this file to the website under the folder 2017 SAWE International Conference Planning Documents.
  • ACTION: Executive – OPEN
• Training – Key Area
  • Suggest separate meeting with chair and Tony to ensure getting support and planning the direction we need to go. R. Hargrave and W. Kiskunas to support A. Lyczko
  • ACTION: Executive – OPEN

             ACTION: Executive – Survey the Group at Large – OPEN

• Membership
  • Membership status update.
  • Update website and email addresses to reflect the most current Canadian Chapter SAWE membership. Get latest list from A. Tang ACTION: OPEN
  • Add a new tab for 2016 Minutes and Archive the Old Minutes ACTION:OPEN
  • Discuss New Fees for next year and exchange rate for fees ACTION: OPEN

2)      Other Business

• The Committee for SAWE Weight Reporting –
  • Is progressing with developing a weight reporting standard.    Various representatives, including those who are members of the SAWE Canada Chapter are contributing to this ongoing discussion.  Whidy gave a brief update of these activities and has been forwarding some draft documents to the executive for feedback.  Currently the weight reporting template has been sent for final approval and is out for public review. See link below for where this is located for public review. http://www.sawe.org/technical/rp/publicreview

 

Whidy has notified us about the results of these ongoing discussions.

• Check Information available on http://sawe.org/ under About Us à News
• Request for Members Needed for New Consensus Body created by the SAWE SPC Committee to Develop a SAWE Recommended Practice for Weight Reporting in the Aviation Industry issued on Sept 4, 2012.
• New title for Weight Report is `Standard Weight Report for Aviation Components`.
• All macros were removed from the weight reporting template.

 

• Discussion:     FAA AC 120-27 E draft version (Rev F was redrafted and available for public comments)
  • Standardized Passengers and Crew weights – The current status is that the FAA has decided to revise the draft document and it is currently awaiting public review.
  •  This has been drafted with reference to new Hanes statistical weight values…  public review to Dec 2015.
  • R. Hargrave & W. Kiskunas looking for real values
    • (Links to be updated)
• Awards : We need to nominate for awards by the end of March 2016

3)      Action Items (all outstanding actions are listing here for visibility). Please ensure to review and update as needed.

• Look for further opportunities to create partnerships with student engineering organizations, specifically in the Montreal and Toronto For example, Bombardier doing course with Ecole Polytechnique. Furthermore, request SAWE International financial support in maintaining our sponsorship /attendance at further TSAA events or similar conferences for the purpose of marketing the SAWE and growing our membership. Put out feelers to the various universities for the upcoming 2016 conference (ie. McGill, Concordia, Ecole Polytechnique, etc) ACTION : Rob/Stuart/Rod/Whidy – ONGOING
• Whidy to speak with VP of Communications to achieve a standard letter format which was used in the past to send to universities for student papers. Whidy to get presentation and follow up with University of Toronto, Ryerson, etc. ACTION: W. Kiskunas & A. Vella – OPEN

 

4)      Next Executive Meeting scheduled on Wednesday February 10th, 2015 at 12:15

 Note: In general any actions that were noted as closed in the last minutes, will be removed from the current meeting minutes