Open council positions

[Rick Kwan]

The AIAA San Francisco Section has several vacancies on its council.
Here are the responsibilities of each of those positions.

Programs Director

* Plan and execute of a regular schedule of Section meetings,
specialist meetings, and field trips.
* Select speaker or speakers and arrange the meeting place.
* Encourage attendance at Section and specialist meetings, and
welcome attendees.
* Arrange joint meetings with other professional societies when it
is mutually beneficial.

Membership Director

* Maintain all available information and forms pertaining to
qualifications and enrollment of new members and elevation to higher
member grades in the Institute.
* Keep an up-to-date roster, maintained in an accurate manner, and
make necessary reports to the Council on this activity.
* Encourage attendance at Section and specialist meetings, and
assist in welcoming attendees.
* Provide special hospitality to new members, service to corporate
members, and attempt to prevent delinquent members from dropping out.
* Be responsible for membership development and for encouraging
membership upgrading.

Honors and Awards Director

* Recommend to the Council for special recognition, including the
Engineer of the Year awards and Certificates of Appreciation, any
members who have performed outstanding work for the Section.
* Submit to the Council the names of Section members who would be
outstanding candidates for the annual Institute awards.
* Upon approval by the Council, aid in the preparation of the
candidate's nomination forms and ensure that the nomination is
submitted to the Institute in a timely manner.
* Upon request by the Institute or when circumstances warrant it,
recommend to the Council any Section members who merit nomination for
any Institute office.

Public Policy Director

* Promote the objectives of the Section and the Institute within
the general area of public policy and public affairs.
* Monitor national developments in this area and organize timely
and appropriate Section responses to them.
* Inform the public of contributions made by engineers and
scientists in Institute-related disciplines to the solution of current
societal problems.
* Encourage the use of expertise within the Section membership in
the solution of local and regional problems.
* Where appropriate, conduct these activities in concert with
other professional societies.
* No statements within the Section shall be construed as
encouraging or authorizing lobbying or any other activity not in
consonance with the objectives or the Institute.

If you're an AIAA SF section member and interested in any of these
positions, drop a note to the chair Gary Kuhn (chair(at)aiaa-sf.org)
or the vice-chair Steven Cerri (vicechair(at)aiaa-sf.org). (Replace
the '(at)" by the commercial-@ sign.)