Chair
- Lead and direct PTF activities for two years
-- Make agenda, Chair ExecComm and Annual Meetings
-- Assist/Backup other Officers as needed
-- send request for award nominations
-- ditto for nominations to ExecComm (even-numbered years)
-- Write columns for the PTF newsletter
-- Serve as Point of Contact for AIChE and external societies
..... attend Division Officers Breakfast (or send a rep)
-- Send reports as requested to AIChE
- Organize PTF committees (with help from Exec Comm)
-- Recruit/Train/Motivate/Recognize members and officers
-- have someone go to AIChE Leadership Training (subsidized)
-- Serve on PTF award evaluation committee
- Serve as Vice Liaison for Program Area 3
-- have one or two PTF reps at the Nat. Planning Conf. (subsidized)
- Manage PTF activities at AIChE meetings
-- Remind AIChE HQ that Thomas Baron Award lecture
should be sched for 5 or 6 PM on Wednesday
-- Reserve rooms for ExecComm, Annual, and area committees
..... executive committee meeting (Sunday eve, 15)
..... membership meeting (Monday afternoon, 60)
..... five program group meetings
..... (ab=Mon ce=Tue, d=Thur, 25 each)
..... awards banquet (check with Vice Chair, Tuesday, 100)
-- Serve as MC at Awards Banquet and for Thomas Baron Award
Vice Chair
- Manage annual awards selection process
-- Receive nominations
-- Distribute copies to awards committee
-- (Those for Lectureship Award in Fluidization go to Group 3b
Get name of winner from Group 3b)
-- Receive votes, notify AIChE for publicity
-- Inform awardees and notify of banquet and tickets
..... ask to send photo/bio info to AIChE for publicity
-- Notify sponsors, invoice them for awards
..... ask to have rep present checks at banquet
- Make arrangements for Awards Banquet on Tues eve
-- Reserve tickets for awardees (two each)
-- Order award plaques and get checks for awardees
-- Bring camera (or get aide) to photograph awardees
-- Help chair present awards
-- Get names of poster contest winners; send award letters
- Arrange for production of CD for PTF Topicals
and seek opportunities for publication
- Prepare to be chair
-- monitor and help chair with duties
-- attend Nat. Planning Conf. and Leadership Conf
..... (both subsidized) if you have not done so before
Secretary
- Take and distribute minutes
-- for the ExecComm meetings
-- for the Annual Meeting
- Act as parliamentarian for these meetings
- Act as keeper of the PTF membership contact list
sent from the AIChE and used by newletter, etc.
- Act as keeper of the nonmember contact list (to advertize PTF)
-- former members, contacts in other societies
- Manage PTF elections in even-numbered years
-- Help NomComm distribute their slate of candidates
-- Prepare and distribute ballots
-- Receive, count, and report the votes
- Maintain PTF archives (minutes, newsletters)
Treasurer
- Receive and disburse funds as directed by the PTF Board
(Require a written request and documentation)
- Maintain financial records of the PTF
- Provide reports and budget for ExecComm and Annual meetings, newsletters
- Send dues invoice to delinquent area chairs and vice chairs
- Send dues invoice to non-AIChE members as they lapse
- Send reports as needed to AIChE
- Cooperate with AIChE for audit of PTF finances
Program Liaison for Area 3
- Attend (or have Vice Liaison attend) the National Planning Conference
to develop future meeting sessions that fit PTF needs
- Attend and report to the Executive Committee and the Annual Meeting
- Monitor (with the Vice Liaison) the Program Group meetings in Area 3
-- to ensure leadership quality and succession
-- sound and creative program planning, and good
-- recruiting and communication with presenters
- Communicate with, mentor and assist the Program Chairs and Vice Chairs
- Supervise the on-line paper submission, review, and assignment process
- Resolve scheduling and leadership problems for the technical program
Newsletter Editor
- Produce a PTF newsletter several times a year noting
-- awards, meeting dates, call for papers,
-- officer reports, book reports, technical columns,
-- other items of interest to PTF members
- Attend and report to the ExecComm meetings and the Annual Meeting
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