TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION

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TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES DIVISION

• 2008
• CHAIR BREAKFAST PROGRAM

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Welcome

• TAD EXCOM
• Thanks you

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Chair Breakfast Program

• Mission
• Responsibilities
• Effectiveness
• Opportunities to Contribute
• Contact Information
• Open Discussion

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TAD Mission

• TAD needs to serve the profession
• need to be relevant and current
• need to provide useful tools
• committees are the way
• TAD EXCOM wants to help you
• establish the environment for creativity
• identify the hot topics
• provide the process to convert the hot topic
  information into useful tools

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Committee Mission

• To serve the profession with timely information
• Publications
• Sessions
• Workshops
• Continuing education
• Journal articles
• Other..

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Responsibilities
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Chairs Role LEADERSHIP

• Be energetic
• Focus and motivate members
• Delegate work assignments
• Establish timelines and goals
• Evaluate and maintain productivity
• Be a good steward of resources
• Communicate with your TAC Chair and EXCOM Contact

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Chairs Duties

• Lead productive meetings
• Recruit members who will be active in Committee
  affairs
• Fulfill administrative responsibilities
• Maintain communications within the Committee, and
  with TAC Chair and EXCOM Contact
• Follow Policies Procedures Manual
• Maintain rosters and submit committee activity
  reports
• Facilitate publication and proposal reviews
• Ask for help if needed

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Long-Range Planning

• What are the committee goals and objectives for
  the next 5 years?
• What are the specific tasks and projects?
• What human and financial resources are needed?
• How to monitor and evaluate progress?

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TAD Policies and Procedures
TAD Policies and Procedures Manual is on the SEI
web site under committees/ technical

• www.SEInstitute.org

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New Committee Chairs

• What you need to do
• Ask questions
• Have and read the Policies and Procedures Manual
• Talk to your TAC Chair
• Talk to Staff Contact

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Effectiveness
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Is Your Committee Effective?

• Take a critical look at your committees
  activities
• Are there Problem Areas?
• No clear mission or goal
• Projects too large to complete
• Lack of participation on the committee
• Lack of interest by the profession
• Need to re-invent yourself?
• Does your committee need to be revitalized?

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Revitalization

• Work on solutions
• Challenge your goals
• Advertise your activities
• Recruit membership
• Join forces with another committee or
  organization
• Dissolve yourself so you can re-invent yourself
• Talk to you TAC Chair and EXCOM Contact

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Opportunities to Contribute
Special Projects Continuing Education
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Special Projects

• Out of the scope of usual activities
• Encouraged for timely topics
• Address specific issue/problem
• Advances state of the practice
• pre-standards, manual, guidelines technology
  transfer
• Needs extra support
• extra meetings, fund meetings with advisory
  groups/organizations
• Short term (1-2 year preferable)

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Special Projects

• Deliverables must address broad constituency
• Budget
• not intended to be additional funding for usual
  activities
• needs separate authorization
• no professional time / funding of graduate
  studies (secretarial, data collection, etc. ok)
• Broaden sponsorship / interactions with other
  organizations (leverage)

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Current Special Projects

• Development of a Database of Experimental Test
  Results and a Subcommittee Report in Support of
  Potential Improved Provisions for Steel I-Girder
  Design
• Development of Design Examples and a Subcommittee
  Report on Notional Load Modified Stiffness
  Procedures for Design of Partially-Restrained
  Steel Building Frames
• Development of Report on Best Current Practice
  and State of the Art for Bracing of Cold Formed
  Steel Structural Elements and Systems
• Joint SEI/NAHB Project to Consider Residential
  Design Loads and Potential Standardization
• Tecnical Guidance for Engineers Timber Bridges
  and Related Transportation Structures

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Current Special Projects

• Manual of Practice for ASCE/SFPE Standard 29-99
  Fire Protection
• A State of the Art Review of Wind and Seismic
  Drift Analysis of Steel Framed Buildings
• Recommended Seismic Design Provisions for Hybrid
  Coupled Walls
• Guidelines for Evaluation of Remaining Fatigue
  Life of Existing Steel Bridges per AASHTO
  Specifications
• Development of Guidelines and a Committee Report
  for Use of Direct Second-Order Inelastic Analysis
  in Structural Design of Steel Frames
• Performance-based Design of Wood Frame Structures

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Continuing Education
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Continuing Education Committee

• Committee established about a year ago
• Committee Charges
• Lead efforts in continuing education
• Solicit topics for CE courses
• Prioritize topics and select developers
• Review and approve final course proposals
• Establish minimum qualifications
• Publicize courses
• Ensure timely updates of materials content

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Seminar Types

• WEBINAR (single)
• MULTIPLE WEBINARS
• IN-PERSON (visitor)
• IN-PERSON MULTIPLE (local)
• Others..
• Not intended to compete with multi-day seminars
  by ASCE and similar organizations

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Committee Inputs

• Formats
• Topics
• Developer / presenters
• Sponsors
• Interaction with LAD

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Continuing Education Committee

• John Grieshaber (Chair)
• Don Dusenberry
• Neil Hawkins
• Roberto Leon
• Pat McCormick
• Vilas Mujumdar
• Staff contact
• Lee Kusek lkusek_at_asce.org
• [phone]

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Contact Information
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TAD EXCOM Contact Information

• Don Dusenberry, Chair
• dodusenberry_at_sgh.com
• Charles Roeder
• croeder_at_u.washington.edu mritter_at_fs.fed.us
• Dennis Mertz
• mertz_at_udel.edu
• Satish Nagarajaiah
• nagaraja_at_rice.edu
• Andrew Hermann
• aherrmann_at_hardesty-hanover.com

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Staff Contact Information

• Lee Kusek
• lkusek_at_asce.org
• [phone]

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Open Discussion