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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
Appendix 5: Membership, Practitioners, and Academicians Committee
Board Level Committee Progress Report – October 2009 – May 2011
H. Poulos
Chair, MPAC
1 MEMBERSHIP
Harry Poulos – Chair (Australia):
Luiz Guilherme de Mello - Vice Chair (Brazil):
Peter Day – Secretary (South Africa):
Brian Simpson - (UK):
Manfred Nussbaumer - (Germany):
Marcellin Kana - (Cameroon):
Za Chieh Moh – (Taiwan):
Dennis Becker- (Canada):
Francois Baguelin – (France):
Madhira Madhav – (India):
Jorgen Steenfelt – (Denmark):
Kenji Ishihara – (Japan):
Board Liaison:
Askar Zhussupbbekov; Samuel Ejezie
2 TERMS OF REFERENCE
To stimulate interaction and cooperation between academics
and practitioners within ISSMGE and to increase the
participation of practitioners in ISSMGE activities.
3 TASKS
3.1 MPAC Membership
(i) Develop a list of significant geotechnical (and other)
companies that will be approached by the President and the
MPAC Chairman to join as Corporate Members of ISSMGE.
Each member of MPAC will be asked to provide names of
suitable companies, and if possible, identify the most
appropriate person to approach. We should work on the basis
that it is a privilege for a company to be asked to be a corporate
member.
(ii) Develop a list of benefits that ISSMGE will provide to
Corporate Members. These will focus largely (but not entirely)
on extensive publicity (via ISSMGE publications and
conferences), and networking opportunities through Corporate
Member interaction. MPAC will be asked to suggest other
means of “inducement”.
(iii)President and Chair of MPAC to develop an invitation letter
setting out the Terms and Conditions for Corporate
Membership.
(iv) This Corporate Group will be a source of funding for the
ISSMGE Foundation.
3.2 Procedures for ISSMGE Conference “Bursaries”
(i) Decide on range of conferences for which bursaries will be
awarded. Will they be only for International Conferences, or
regional Conferences within the region of the recipient, or will
they extend to any ISSNGE-sponsored conference?
(ii) Develop criteria for selection of members to receive
financial assistance (bursaries) to attend ISSMGE-sponsored
conferences.
(iii)Develop guidelines for selection of Member Societies that
will be invited to nominate individual members for bursaries.
(iv) Communicate with those Member Societies and receive
feedback on the proposed scheme before procedures are
finalized.
3.3 Develop a Corporate Associates Presidential Group
(i) Arrange for members of Corporate Associates to represent
their organization on a group (CAPG) that has direct access to
the President.
4 PROGRESS
4.1 MPAC Membership
• Corporate Members have been re-titled as “Corporate
Associates”.
• We now have a total of 28 Corporate Associates, up from
18 prior to the formation of MPAC.
• We have been provided with a Geotechnical Industry
Database by the Friends of Canada, and this has been
distributed to members of MPAC to assist them in
identifying potential Corporate Associates.
4.2 Conference Bursaries
• Thus far, four conference bursaries have been granted.
• Each recipient has to file a report on their experiences and
learning from the conference attended.
• Guidelines for bursary recipients have been developed,
including the requirement that a recipient shall normally
be a financial member of ISSMGE
4.3 Corporate Associates Presidential Group
• This CAPG group has been formed.
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