Feb 2018 Minutes
SAWE Canada Chapter
Executive Meeting Minutes – Monthly Teleconference
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
12:15pm – 1:00pm ET
ATTENDEES
- Whidy Kiskunas
- Rod van Dyk
- Darren Gamble
- April Tang
REGRETS
- Robert Hargrave
- Paul Newsham
Agenda
Emerging Topics
- New items
- Current SAWE Canada business
- Website Status update
- Operational as of this morning..
- WordPress/Backup/Admin
- Current SAWE International business – Recent Communications
- SAWE Break Sponsor – Texas 2018 Money done
- Vista Laptops – Rob talked to Errol, check with Robert over how to dispose of them. SAWE purchasing new ones.
- SAWE Nominations for Honorary Fellow, Fellow, Richard Boynton Lifetime Achievement Award and Ed Payne Outstanding Young Engineer Award – closed.
- Request for topic areas for SAWE Conferences – John H Nakai john.h.nakai@aero.org – specific areas of information that we want to see at the conferences.
- Review of last minutes and status on open items
- Closing Discussion
Confirm next meeting
SAWE CANADA BUSINESS
SAWE Canada Website Working again – nothing lost
Upload of pictures – Darren to speak to Nicolas Riou – to see if he can help. – check permissions level on website.
Website went down
Still not everyone is able to access it, but need to clear browser history to make it work.
WordPress has been updated several times, which had likely caused some of the publication issues with attachments. WordPress 4.9.1 which will increase website security.
Uploading pics of Montreal conference still to be done.
Chapter Membership
ACTION: Rod / Whidy to discuss the reviews / comments and send out the survey to the chapter. Send email to the newer members for survey of who they are, what they do and what would they like to see from the society. ECD Feb 2018 meeting.
Compare to the international survey that just went out to see if it’s still viable for chapter-specific questions to be sent out.
ACTION: Rod – follow up with Andy now that Regional conference in TX is finished regarding BC members to possibly join Seattle chapter for better regional representation, if they haven’t yet renewed.
Will organize a teleconference between Andy and Robert / Whidy / Rod to discuss about eventually having regional chapters for BC and ON/QC, vs the Seattle chapter membership instead. ECD TBD.
Survey email notice deployed – Some people filled in, members and non-members, Rod and Whidy meeting Andy tomorrow. Holding off on our internal survey until after discussions with Andy and to see if anything comes out of the international one. Involvement of Western members more (member of the board?) Some existing board members may not seek re-election.
SAWE Canada Chapter – Plans for 2018
Usually get an email request from SAWE international for plan for this coming year (calendar year, so next January)
Chapter reports will be expected for 2018 International in March/April. – nothing received as yet. May have gone to Robert, Whidy to go to Ron to see if anything is required.
Continue to reach-out to the universities (no recent collaboration from Ryerson or UofT for further papers)
Rod to do Ryerson University presentation for the interns at Safran – good outreach to students from 4 Toronto-area university. Rod asked to do same presentation at work for new interns. Presentation to be put onto website – Rod.
Industry and universities presentations (particularly the one that was translated into French that hasn’t been presented yet in Montreal) – Nicolas’ presentation to be presented to unis in Montreal
Membership drive (student and professional), engagement with current members (see above section for current actions) – think of ways of doing it
2018 Fall Technical Conference – start discussing strategy / feasibility. It’s a great representation for the Canada Chapter. Importance of mentoring / training for future generation of mass properties. Look at training program vs papers and presentations. Leave for new executive?
Social gatherings held instead in Toronto and Montreal for outreach to current, past and future members. Look at as a priority in advance of the technical conference to engage new members in each area.
Identify needs within companies for training to target properly to show value of SAWE.
SAWE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Conference Package
conference package due out soon
SAWE Canada Attendance
Rod, Whidy & Nicolas Riou going,
Rod teaching.
Survey – International
International survey was distributed by Whidy on Jan 10 from the SAWE Executive.
Responses asked to be done Jan 17, to be distributed to each of the mass properties teams of the SAWE membership.
In 5 to 10 years we could potentially lose up to 50% of the membership with the active SAWE.
Results to be discussed at the Texas international conference
Nomination forms for Fellowships and Awards
Whidy – Received nomination forms for fellow, associate fellow, Richard Boynton Award, Ed Payne award. He has distributed this out to the SAWE Canada chapter for nominations.
SAWE Executive Position
International positions open – no interest yet from SAWE Canada chapter?
2018 International Conference – Texas
Rod has been participating in supporting the Texas international.
Request for papers – Texas will be a heavy ship building conference, need aircraft related papers
Airlines affairs (Rob Hargrave) – passenger loading input / recommendations. See what needs to be done to justify having an airline affairs session at the Texas conference.
- Robert working to see about there being an active regular monthly meeting – airlines affairs
- One significant discussion topic is the ongoing issue is weighing of passengers instead of a general survey of weight.
- Robert noted that the minutes from previous airline affairs sessions haven’t been posted online. will contact Andy to see about how individuals in the various chapters
- previous topics have been passenger weights, cargo preservation from FAA
- Temporary Replacement for Robert as chair to be actioned (against Andy as chair)
SAWE Canada are now a break sponsor for the Texas conference ($500 has been donated for this directly to Ron Fox).
ACTION: Need to contact the conference organizers to ensure that we are properly registered for this on RegOnline. Will be determined at next monthly meeting with organization committee (Rod with Paul Kennedy).
Great news for vendors for 2018: We had some MTL conference vendors that are continuing onto TX conference, and a vendor (Stratasys) that was too late to support MTL that have signed up as a vendor for TX.
Lots of shipbuilding papers, very few aerospace papers. Need to get some more balance to make sure the conference is successful.
International Conference Laptops
Vista Laptops to be discarded – too old to continue being used.
TX branch will be responsible for purchase / rental of new ones for the conference.
Rob still has them, needs to clean them out before they are donated or recycled.
Nominations for 2018 executive to be sent out by Whidy in the next few weeks.
April to send out Tax receipts for year
Alterna savings account now closed, now with Scotiabank. Now charged fees, but very low and no minimum balance.
Upcoming International Conferences
2018 – Texas
2019 – Virginia
2020 – Hamburg, Germany (just accepted by the International Committee)
NEXT MEETINGS FOR 2018:
- Mar 14
- Apr 11
- May 9