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Position Abstracts
ASME
Skokie Valley
Unit
Officers and Operating
Board
(For
more detail see ML-10)
http://districts.asme.org/leadershiptoolbox/manuals/ml-10.pdf
and appendices
http://districts.asme.org/leadershiptoolbox/manuals/ml10app.pdf
Elected officers
Officers serve two-rear terms and comprise the unit Executive Committee,
which is responsible for providing guidance recommendations to the Operating
Board.
Chair
The Chair is responsible for the management of the section. The chair hosts all
meetings of the unit and presides over business meetings of the unit, the
operating board, and the executive committee. The chair also serves,
ex-officio, as a member of the Chicago Section Operating Board and such other
positions as may, from time to time, be directed.
Vice-chair
The Vice-chair assists the Chair in the performance of all duties, as directed
by the Chair. It is typically expected that the competent Vice-chair will be
nominated to ascend to the Chair.
Secretary
The Secretary records the official business of the unit, maintains in good order
the records of the proceedings of the unit, and prepares and distributes the
minutes of the business meetings of the unit and the operating board. The
Secretary, in concert with the Chair, will assure that notes of the meetings of
the executive committee are made and recommendations of the executive committee
are brought to the operating board for final decision.
Treasurer
The Treasure has responsibility for the financial management of the unit. The
Treasurer receives all monies, pays all bills due, records and assigns all
financial transactions, and prepares, with the guidance of unit management and
the operating board, the annual budget and financial report of the unit.
Past Chair
The immediate Past-chair is the advisor to the unit Chair, executive committee,
and operating board.
Operating Board Committee chairs
Members of the operating board are selected (based on recommendations),
appointed by, and serve at the pleasure of the executive committee. They form
the governing body of the unit. All committee chairs are responsible for the
management of the budget they receive and development of budget recommendations
for the next fiscal year.
Communications
The Communications chair is responsible for dissemination of all information
about the unit and the ASME service and recognition of its members Specific
venues for dissemination include, but are not limited to: the unit website;
e-mail; postcards; and local media (newspapers, radio, and television). The
chair is encouraged to select additional ASME unit members to assist.
Education
The Education chair is responsible for interface between the unit and all levels
of education (K-12 and university) within the boundaries of the section. The
chair is encouraged to select additional ASME unit members to assist.
Visitations by unit members to K-12 classes to encourage the pursuit of
education in science, technology, engineering, and physics (STEP) are a must and
are coordinated, tracked, and reported by the Education chair. Additionally,
the Education chair is the liaison between the unit and the engineering faculty
and students at Northwestern University, currently the only engineering school
within the unit boundaries.
Employment Assistance
The Employment Assistance chair is responsible for providing an interface that
aids unit members who are seeking (re-)employment to locate open positions and
employers who are seeking seasoned engineers to consider unit members. The
Employment Assistance chair will usually work closely with the website activity
of the Communications committee. The chair is encouraged to select additional
ASME unit members to assist.
History
& Heritage
The History & Heritage chair is responsible for developing and maintaining the
history of the unit and coordinating and processing candidates for society
designation as “Mechanical Engineering Landmarks.” The chair is encouraged to
select additional ASME unit members to assist.
Honors & Awards
The Honors & Awards chair is responsible for identifying unit members who are
deserving of recognition for their contributions to society, the profession,
ASME, and the unit and recommending those members to the appropriate authority
for the appropriate award. The Honors & Awards chair may be called upon to act
as the Emcee of a unit meeting identifies for the purpose of presenting honors
and awards. The Honors & Awards chair is encouraged to monitor society and
professional awards to unit members and communicate knowledge of those awards
to the Communications chair. The chair is encouraged to select additional ASME
unit members to assist.
Industry
Relations
The Industry Relations chair is responsible for developing contacts with
enterprises employing or otherwise engaging the services of engineers for the
purpose of establishing relationships with the unit. The purposes of such
relationship is to: advance service to industry and members; acquaint management
with ASME resources; and encourage industry support of unit and ASME educational
programs. The chair is encouraged to select additional ASME unit members to
assist.
Member Development
The Member Development chair: encourages unit members to remain in ASME;
encourages mechanical engineers who are not members to join ASME, works with
members and the Professional Development chair to provide skill development
opportunities; and monitors and reports the monthly changes of unit membership
data. The chair is encouraged to select additional ASME unit members to
assist.
Professional Development
The Professional Development chair identifies and recommends to the operating
board, continuing education courses offered outside of the unit and short
courses that can be presented at very low cost (<$15 per professional
development hour) by the unit. The chair works with the Communications and
Programs chairs to disseminate information regarding such programs. The chair
is encouraged to select additional ASME unit members to assist.
Program
The Programs chair is responsible for the management of the educational,
general, technical, and social meeting meetings sponsored by the unit during the
fiscal year. The meeting schedule, set by action of the unit operating board,
will be used as the basis for the direction of this chair. The program chair
will work with the Professional Development chair to assure that “Certificates
of Attendance” are available for attendees at all qualifying meetings. The
chair is strongly encouraged to select additional ASME unit members to assist as
“Meeting chairs.”
Meeting chair
A meeting chair will be responsible, under the guidance of the Program chair,
for selection of the venue and menu, and for assuring that necessary
audio-visual arrangements have been made and fulfilled for a single meeting.
Additionally, the meeting chair will work with the Treasurer to assure that a
unit management member, with an additional helper, are available to check in
members, receive meeting fee payments, and issue receipts for the meeting.
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