Chair | Vice Chair | Secretary | Treasurer Program Liaison for Area 3 | Newsletter Editor

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