Industrial Advisors Committee Reports
Fall 2001Industrial Advisors - A. Bowen-Jones, D. Priddy
The function of the industrial advisors is to help POLY in better serving their industrial members. Goals include: influencing programming to provide more symposia topics of interest to industry, attracting more industrial members, and increasing industrial participation at national meetings (attendance, technical presentations, symposia co-organizing, and participation in POLY governance and committees).
Currently we are working to negotiate co-sponsored programming with industrially oriented trade groups. We have met with the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) Program Committee and are working with George Pilcher of PMSE Div. to co-organize a joint symposium on coating technology for the Fall 2002 meeting. We would then reciprocate by co-organizing a similar symposium at the 2003 National FSCT Meeting.
We are also working with Corporation Associates to solicit ideas for POLY Symposium topics of particular interest to Industry.
From the Spring 2000 meeting
Industrial Advisors - A. Bowen-Jones, D. Priddy
The function of the industrial advisors is to help POLY in better serving their industrial members. Goals include: influencing programming to provide more symposia topics of interest to industry, attracting more industrial members, and increasing industrial participation at national meetings (attendance, technical presentations, symposia co-organizing, and participation in POLY governance and committees). Angela Bowen-Jones has replaced Roger Clough on the Industrial Advisors team.
At the Fall (Washington, D.C.) ACS meeting, we attended the ACS Corporation Associates Committee Meeting, and participated in their subcommittee discussions on programming. They have the same interests that we do except from a broader perspective; i.e. they also want to increase industrial participation in the ACS. We presented to the subcommittee a proposed survey letter to be circulated within the member companies of Corporation Associates soliciting ideas for future symposia topics along with names of volunteers to help organize the symposia. A person on the staff (Theresa Laranang-Mutlu) of ACS was present. She suggested that it would be a good idea to place a general symposia topic solicitation survey on the ACS website. The information that came in from the survey would then be forwarded on to the appropriate divisions.
We are working to negotiate co-sponsored programming with industrially oriented trade groups. Recently (March 12th) we participated in the Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) Program Committee Meeting. George Pilcher of PMSE Div. also participated. We agreed to work together to co-organize a POLY/PMSE/FSCT sponsored symposium on "Advances in Coating Technology" at the National ACS Meeting Spring 2002. We would then reciprocate by co-organizing a similar symposium at the 2002 National FSCT Meeting (Fall).
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