Director Reports Education 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 – Budget $1000 for awards May take a bit more if each one is fulfilled 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
Director Reports Education 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 Budget $1000 for awards May take a bit more if each one is fulfilled 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
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