American Nuclear Society Human Factors Division

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American Nuclear SocietyHuman Factors Division

• Presentation to the
• ANS Board of Directors
• Robert M. Edwards, chair
• June 16, Pittsburgh, PA

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HFD Mission

• The division devotes itself specifically to the
  human part of the nuclear system. Human Factors
  has its major objective to improve task
  peformability, system reliability, system and
  personnel safety, efficiency and effectiveness.
  The major areas of interest include but are not
  limited to task design, procedures, operator
  selection, training, instrument and control
  layout and placement, stress control,
  anthropometrics, motivation, and information
  processing.

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Executive Committee
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Membership trends
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Membership Composition
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Budget Information
Actual 2003 Budget 2004 Actual 2004
Carry Forward 8172 6176 6176
Member Allocation 593 585 585
Income 0 0 0
Total Budget Funds 8765 6761 6761
Awards/Plaques 89 150 0
Student Support 500 500 250
Seed Money (topical) 2000 0 0
Total expenses 2589 650 250
Excess 6176 6111 6511
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Division Governance

• Division Planning/Strategic Plan, Succession
  Planning
• Strategic plan submitted in 2004
• non-officer succession planning needs more work
• Communications/Web, E-mail/Copy of Newsletter
• newsletter issued in May 2004

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Division/TG Contributions to ANS

• ANS Position Statements
• none
• Participation with Other Professional Societies
• sponsorship of division topical
• Society Leadership
• 50 executive committee attendance
• 100 PDCNPC
• Non-Meeting Publications
• August 2003 NT special issue

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Division/TG Services to Membership

• Professional Development
• 2002 EPRI DOE workshop, Advanced Reactor IC
  Requirements
• 2004 workshop for utility working conference
• Bill Cochoran - root cause analysis
• 2004 workshop with division topical
• Ted Quinn
• Scholarships
• none
• Peer Recognition/Awards
• none
• Student Support
• none in 2003, but two conferences in 2004

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Division/TG Meetings

• National Meeting Participation
• 2 sessions in 2003
• 2 sessions in June 2004
• 5 sessions offered for November 2004
• Topicals/Prior Two Years, Current Year, Future
  Two Years
• NPICHMIT 2000
• NPICHMIT 2004

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Nuclear Plant Instrumentation Control and Human
Machine Interface Technologies, NPICHMIT2004

• Columbus Ohio, September 19-22, 2004
• Organizers
• Steven Arndt (NRC), general chair
• Gary Johnson (LLL), tech. co-chair, NPIC
• John OHara (BNL), tech. co-chair, HMIT
• cosponsors EPRI, DOE, NRC, IAEA, and OECD/AEA
• 200 abstracts accepted,12 countries

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Summary

• Status of Division/TG Metrics and Measures
• Division Governance Communications
• newsletter and website updates in 2004
• List Areas of Success
• Division Contributions to Society
• division topicals 1993, 1996, 2000, 2004
• NT special issues 2002, 2003, 2004
• Focus for Future Action
• Division Governance succession planning for
  officer and non-officer positions
• communications newsletter and timely website
  updates

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Professional Division Metrics / Measures of
Division VitalityHFD Vitality Measures CY 2003
DivisionMeetings Division Governance Division Contributions to Society Division Services to Membership
NationalMeetingParticipation2003 0 session 0panel/1session 1panel SuccessionPlanningTo be developed included in Strategic Plan ANS Position StatementsHFD is not responsible for Position Statement ProfessionalDevelopmentEPRI-DOE Advanced Rx Human Factor IC Research Requirements Workshop Nov 2002
Class IClass IITopicals4th Int IC Human Machine Interface 09-04 MembershipTrends579 members 1.6 change 2003 Participation withOutside ProfessionalSocietiesIEEE co-sponsor for Class I Topical ScholarshipsHFD Does Not Support a Scholarship
Class IIITopicals2001 Topical IC Human Mach Interface Communicationsno newsletters issued in 2003 website not updated in 2003 SocietyLeadershipBoth Mtgs 50 Exec Comm, 75 PDC NPC Peer Recognition/AwardsHFD does not support peer recognition/awards
DivisionPlanningStrategic Plan submitted to PDC Chair in 2003 Non-MeetingPublicationsNuclear Technology Nuclear plant instrumentation control Aug 2003 StudentSupportHFD did not support 2003 Student activities