Board of Governors Members Discuss ASMEs Future During Their April Meeting

Board of Governors Members Discuss ASMEs Future During Their April Meeting Board of Governors Members Discuss ASMEs Future During Their April Meeting Board of Governors Members Discuss ASMEs Future During Their April MeetingAndrew Taylor (left), a member of the ASME Board of Governors, was named an ASME Fellow during the Boards meeting in New York on April 14. ASME President Julio Guerrero (right) presented Taylor with his Fellow certificate. Photo by Wil Haywood, Public Information The ASME Board of Governors (BOG) convened at the Societys New York headquarters on April 14 and 15 to address a number of topics concerning the Society. During the lively two-day meeting, Board members discussed a number of items, including the development of the Societys new strategy, ASME NOW, and the process of selecting the core technologies that would be the foundation of the Societys future product portfolio.During the meeting, BOG member John Goossen and Michael Ireland, ASMEs associate executive director for engineering, presented the Board with an update on ASME NOW, which is intended to enhance ASMEs relevance and impact to global constituents and establish the Society as the go-to organization for solving the worlds technology problems. To reach this objective, ASME will need to take a three-tiered approach, which will involve becoming more market facing, developing business development competency and product sophistication, and engaging its stakeholders and delivering value.Key to ASMEs success in becoming a more market-facing organization is the selection of a group of technologies to serve as the foundation of the Societys product portfolio. During his presentation, Ireland reviewed the Societys recent technology selection process activities, which included the recent gathering of 20 thought leaders from around the world to help ASME identify these technologies. During the workshop, the volunteers, who were named the Technology Advisory Panel (TAP), selected 13 techno logies they saw as most germane to ASME. (Read more about the TAP meeting here.) A group of select ASME staff members, the Staff Technology Team, will further narrow the list to three to five technologies, which will be presented to the Board for approval in June.During the meeting, ASME President Julio Guerrero led a discussion on the actions being taken to follow up on the international delegation trips members of the Board took to Peru, India and China, while Bobby Grimes, senior vice president of the TEC Sector, presented the Board with a report on the role of the Sector Management Committee. In his presentation on Fiscal Year 2017 planning, ASME President-Elect K. Keith Roe discussed the strategic focus for the coming fiscal year, which included two critical objectives effective strategy and improving how the Society operates. Executive Director Thomas Loughlin then shared his outlook for the future of ASME and reviewed the trends he believed would impact ASME during his presen tation, Association Future State One E.D.s View.Jeff Patterson, ASMEs new associate executive director of marketing, provided the Board with a summary of the current market environment. During his presentation, titled A Look At Market Trends and Their Implications, Patterson identified several trends that the Society should watch, including the emergence of Millennials as the dominant segment of the U.S. workforce, the growth of social media as a professional development platform, and the reality that content producers such as book publishers are rethinking traditional methods of bringing content to market. As a result, Patterson said, ASME must be aware of evolving conditions, open to new solutions, willing to experiment, and focused on results. In other meeting activity, the Board approved the reappointment of Kathryn Ingle and Keith Thayer as members of the Committee on Organization and Rules from June 2016 through June 2019, and the reappointment of Richard Goldstein, Webb Marn er and Reginald Vachon as Pension Plan Trustees from July 2016 through June 2019. In addition, the Board approved the appointment of Thomas Kurfess, Michel Margat, Shao Binan and Steven Wallace as members of the Council on Standards and Certification from June 2016 through June 2019. The appointments of Ankush Gupta, Marianne Chan and Siva Pilli as members of the Student and Early Career Development Council for the July 2016 to June 2017 term were also approved by Board at the meeting.BOG member Andrew Taylor was also named an ASME Fellow during the meeting. The ASME Committee of Past Presidents confers the Fellow grade of membership on worthy candidates to recognize their outstanding engineering achievements.