Nassau
Bay Hilton
Date:
Friday, June 2, 2000
Time:
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Steve
Ames, President opened the meeting.
The participants introduced themselves.
There were 43 members in attendance.
Approval
of Last Meeting Minutes
Minutes
of the March 31, 2000 meeting were approved
June
2, 2000.
Subcommittee
on Rules/By-Laws Merv Treigle
The
following members and changes were approved by the steering
committee:
Voting
Houston Community College was approved as a new College Voting
Member along with the following representatives:
1.
Larry Markey, Houston Community College
Representative-Houston, TX
2.
Cliff Molder, Industry Voting Member -
Texas Petrochemicals-Houston, TX
3.
Bob Milligan, Industry Voting Member
Training & Development Systems-Houston, TX
Subcommittee
- Funding Steve Ames
§
Instructor Manuals The additional 4
sets of curriculum books will be available around mid-December,
2000. Colleges need to plan in their 2001 budget to
purchase these 4 new instructor guides.
They are Quality, Process Technology I-Equipment, Process
Technology II-Systems, and Process Technology III-Operations.
Estimated cost will be $190 per set for each course.
Information on ordering these materials is on the web site.
Steve spoke of the
high cost for the GCPTA with regards to printing and inventorying a
large number of these books. It
may mean we will require payment in advance for orders before
shipping. This will
reduce the GCPTAs burden of having a large amount of funds tied
up in book inventory or waiting on payment which at times has been
as long as six months.
Subcommittee
- Public Relations Karen Baird
§
Career Fair
Karen reported that
there were 228 students at the last Career Fair/Expo.
She remarked that not all the colleges were as well
represented as certain colleges and asked that all colleges in the
future encourage their students to attend.
§
Newsletter
Karen remarked that
work was underway for the next edition of the GCPTA Newsletter and
solicited articles from those members who wished to contribute.
They are to be forwarded to either herself or the GCPTA at
atgcpta@msn.com. She
offered that the Public Relations Subcommittee would be meeting at
1:00 p.m. and asked if anyone wanted to participate and become
involved that they attend.
CRC/Lewis
Publishers were invited to speak at our meeting by Joe Rowland,
Celanese. Joe
instructs in the Process Technology program at Wharton County Junior
College and uses their chemistry book.
Arline
Massey, Publisher of Lewis Publishers a division of CRC Press LLC,
introduced John Kenkel. John
is a chemistry instructor at Southeast Community College in Lincoln,
Nebraska and is co-author with Paul Kelter of Chemistry: An
Industry-Based Introduction with CD-ROM and Chemistry: An
Industry-Based Laboratory Manual.
Both were produced under NSF grants and support mainly
Laboratory Technician training.
David Packer of CRC Publishers also accompanied the group.
The GCPTA extends thanks to CRC/Lewis Publishers for coming
and making a presentation and demonstrating their services in
support of technical education.
For further information on what they can offer, you can
contact them as follows: Arline Massey at 561-998-2547 or amassey@crcpress.com
and John Kenkel at 800-642-4075, Ext. 2485 or jvkenkel@sccm.cc.ne.us.
Cathy
reported that she, Karen Baird, Bob Kosar and Bob Rodgers would be
meeting in the next couple of weeks to formulate future plans with
regards to the Texas Skills Standards.
She also noted that Lee Rector of the Texas Skills Standards
Board would be meeting with herself and the GCPTA Executive
Committee in regards to the Texas Skills Standards and the National
Skills Standards.
Special
Note Steve Ames
Steve
informed everyone about the passing of Tom Rodgers who was a
longtime friend of many of us and whose company, TR International,
sponsored and participated in the efforts and activities of the
GCPTA and the IPTA. Many thanks, Tom and Carol, for all of your
support.
Special
Note Steve Ames
Steve
informed those present that it was 5 years ago today that the GCPTA
became a reality. He
thanked Mike Kukuk, Sterling Chemicals, the founding Chairman and
Bill Raley, College of the Mainland for their efforts in getting the
alliance off to a start.
Eileen
made it known that she had monies available until August 31, 2000,
that might possibly be used by the Texas Colleges to purchase
curriculum materials using Tech Prep funds.
She asked that interested parties contact her for further
information on how to apply for these funds.
Subcommittee on
Education-Gary Hicks & Rick Guzman
§
NSF
Grant Update-Joanna Kile
Joanna
introduced the NSF team: Leslie
Hunt, Suzanne Kolodzy and Joe Wedergren. She reported that funding
of the NSF Grant had been approved for the 2nd year.
Packets with the overhead presentation and information were
distributed to the attendees. The
contents contained:
Projected
course completion dates, which are:
§
PT I-Equipment
June 15th
§
PT II-Systems
July 19th
§
PT III-Operations
July 14th
§
Quality
July 14th
Train-The-Trainer
Dates for those who will pilot the courses in the fall:
§
PT l-Equipment
July 26th
§
PT II-Systems
August 2nd
§
PT III-Operations
August 9th
§
Quality
August 16th
Guidelines
for piloting the courses were explained.
Those who choose to pilot these courses must attend the
Train-The-Trainer courses. The
training will be video taped and sent to those who are unable to
attend because of travel distance.
They must however view the training video before they will be
allowed to pilot a course.
Lou
Caserta and Joe Wedergren gave a demo of the virtual plant that will
be on CD-ROM and will accompany the PT III-Operations course.
Joanna
offered the following information:
§
Memorandum of Understanding for course
pilot instructors
§
Return to Industry Externship
§
New information available on the CAPT web
site
§
Sample Lesson Plans
§
Course Objectives for Quality, PT I, II
& III
All of this information and details are available on the web
site at www.captech.org
Joanna
explained that a NSF grant evaluation form would soon be available
on the web site. This
evaluation of the NSF grant efforts can be filled out and
electronically transmitted to the NSF grant evaluator.
Members will be notified when it is available.
Watch for it.
Subcommittee
on Distance Education Duncan Welder
Duncan
reported that great strides have been made in the Distance Learning
planning and that a meeting of the instructors who will pilot the
Distance Learning Course-Introduction to Process Technology will
take place on July 21. The
instructors who are piloting the course are Ron Calvert from Wharton
College, David Bourque from San Jacinto College-Central, and Mike
Kukuk, College of the Mainland.
This course is being piloted for incumbents from industry.
Industry members will be solicited to provide the incumbent
operators/technicians to pilot this course.
§
LAAP
Grant Update Joanna Kile and Scott Bruno
Scott
Bruno presented an update of the LAAP grant project. Samples of two of the modules created by TDS are
now available on the web site www.captech.org.
Joanna
reported that the annual report for the LAAP grant had been
submitted on June 1 and that there should be no trouble in being
funded for the second year.
Joanna
reported that she and Bill Raley had met with Futron Corporation of
Houston and had been given a demonstration of virtual reality
capabilities that can be used in Distance Learning.
A demonstration by Futron will be given for the GCPTA
Executive Committee and interested GCPTA members at the next
Executive Committee Meeting. The date, time and place will be provided to all
members when determined.
Financial
Report Merv Treigle
Ed
Stiles, Treasurer, was not able to attend due to company business.
Merv
reported that expenses to-date are $12,032.43.
Income from subscriptions received thus far is $25,000.
Those in attendance who had not yet forwarded their
subscriptions were encouraged to do so as the GCPTA is funded only
through these voluntary subscriptions.
A list of those companies and colleges who have contributed
was read.
College
Advisory Committees
§
San Jacinto Will hire new
fulltime PTech Instructor. Had
19 PTech sections this spring.
Internship interviews will be held the third week of July.
§
Alvin Had 100 students
enrolled this spring. All
graduates have jobs. Forty
students are enrolled this summer.
§
Brazosport Reported they
had conducted 40 separate industry classes this spring.
Dow Chemical will now require all hirees to have a two-year
degree or finish within 3 years of their hire date.
§
College of the Mainland
Had 6 graduates this spring. Eighty-one
students are enrolled for the summer.
Currently working on an internship program for students.
They are advertising for the position of Process Tech Faculty
Program Director. Pilot
plant is about 85% complete. The
COM Board of Directors has approved the use of college funds to
complete the pilot plant this summer.
It should be in full use this fall.
§
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College Advisory Committee is in place.
Members come from a number of different industries such as
chemical, pulp and paper, power and plastics.
Have adopted the GCPTA curriculum and 8 core courses.
The program has been approved by the Education Board of
Mississippi and the GCPTA material had a great deal to do with the
approval of the program.
§
Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Reported does not have a PTech program, but offers a four-year
degree in Engineering Technology.
Have added 4 new courses.
Currently making plans to move into a new science and
technical building.
§
Wharton Had 5 graduates
this spring and will have 5 more graduates this summer.
The county has donated 30 acres and a building to Wharton
College for technology programs.
§
Louisiana Technical-Sowela
Will start-up PTech program this fall.
Will have new lab located at Sowela to be used by both Sowela
and McNeese. Will be
housed in new 7,000 square foot building.
Contractor will build the lab off site and deliver.
§
TSTC Marshall Currently
converting from a quarter to a semester system.
§
Lamar Institute of Technology
Had 513 students enrolled this spring with 63 graduates.
Dupont-Orange had 15 interns the past semester.
Looking for 2 PTech instructors for this fall.
The college achieved over ten percent growth in contact
hours, and because of this received $400,000 in funds which will be
used to build a Process Technology Pilot Plant.
Will move into 23,000 square foot technology center this
fall.
New
Business
Everyone
was reminded about the upcoming IPTA Meeting in New Orleans on
September 12, 2000 and were asked to register early if they were
planning to attend to help the GCPTA better plan the meeting.
Alliance
Web Site
§
Web site www.processtech.org
is fully active and maintained by Bob Kosar of Grand Isle Group.
If your school or company has a web site and it is not
accessible by just a click, contact the webmaster by e-mail bobkosar@hal-pc.org.
College of the Mainland is providing the host server.
§
Center for the Advancement of
Process Technology (CAPT) web site www.captech.org.
§
Contact the GCPTA at atgcpta@msn.com.
Future
GCPTA Meetings
Friday,
August 11, 2000
Friday,
November 17, 2000
9:00
a.m. 1:00 p.m.
Nassau
Bay Hilton
***Other
Events***
IPTA
Conference
Tuesday,
September 12, 2000
Fairmont
Hotel New Orleans
Registration
information and agenda are on the web site www.processtech.org
API
National Training & Development Conference
September
13-15, 2000
Fairmont
Hotel New Orleans
Meeting
Adjourned at 1:00 p.m.
Respectfully
submitted,
Merv
Treigle, Secretary
Gulf
Coast Process Technology Alliance
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