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Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Paris 2013
Appendix 6: Report on Membership, Practitioner and Academic Committee (MPAC)
Report de la Comite Practitioner et Academique (MPAC).
H.G. 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 STATED OBJECTIVES
3.1 MPAC Membership
a) 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.
b) 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”.
c) President and Chair of MPAC to develop an invitation
letter setting out the Terms and Conditions for
Corporate Membership.
d) This Corporate Group will be a source of funding for
the ISSMGE Foundation.
3.2 Procedures for ISSMGE Conference “Bursaries”
a) 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 ISSMGE-
sponsored conference?
b) Develop criteria for selection of members to receive
financial assistance (bursaries) to attend ISSMGE-
sponsored conferences.
c) Develop guidelines for selection of Member Societies
that will be invited to nominate individual members for
bursaries.
d) Communicate with those Member Societies and receive
feedback on the proposed scheme before procedures are
finalized.
3.3 Develop a Corporate Associates Presidential Group
a) Arrange for members of Corporate Associates to
represent their organization on a group (CAPG) that has
direct access to the President.
4 PROGRESS TOWARDS OBJECTIVES
4.1 MPAC Membership
 Corporate Members have been re-titled as “Corporate
Associates”.
 We now have a total of 43 Corporate Associates, up
from 21 prior to the formation of MPAC.
 A list of the current Corporate Associates (CAs),
together with their logos and country of origin, is given
in Appendix A to this report. Also shown are the
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