Nassau
Bay Hilton
Date:
Friday, August 11, 2000
Time:
9:00 am - 1:00 pm
Steve
Ames, President opened the meeting.
The participants introduced themselves.
There were 52 members and visitors in attendance.
Steve
welcomed all of the Special Guests and College Deans in attendance.
Approval
of Last Meeting Minutes
Minutes
of the June 2, 2000 meeting were approved August 11,
2000.
Subcommittee
on Rules/By-Laws Merv Treigle
The
following members and changes were approved by the steering
committee:
1.
Voting
No new members
2.
Associate
Brent Childress Frank Phillips College Borger, Texas
Mark
Stoebner Shell Chemicals Learning & Development Houston,
Texas
Jack
Makarczyk San Jacinto College Central Pasadena, Texas
Special
Note Merv Treigle
Merv
informed everyone about the passing of Frank Mancuso of Shell.
Our condolences go out to his family and friends.
Subcommittee
- Funding Steve Ames
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Instructor Manuals Steve gave a
synopsis of the number of book orders for the year.
He also advised that orders would be sent direct to the
printer who would print and ship orders as they are received.
This eliminates the need to maintain a costly inventory of
manuals and we can better serve our members and those who order
manuals. Steve also
asked that orders not be sent to him; but that they should be sent
to the appropriate person or place as directed on the order forms,
which are available on the web site.
Subcommittee
- Public Relations Karen Baird
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Career Fair
Karen reported that
there would be a Career Fair/Expo coming in February of 2001.
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 and take advantage of the
opportunities presented at the Expo.
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Newsletter
Karen noted that the
new edition of the GCPTA Newsletter was published.
She solicited articles from those members who wished to
contribute to future publications. They are to be forwarded to
either herself or the GCPTA at atgcpta@msn.com. She also asked for
additional volunteers for the Public Relations Subcommittee.
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Brochure
Karen noted that the
new GCPTA Brochure had been printed and was available to all.
She thanked all that had participated in the rewrite and
thanked Ann Treigle our Administrative Assistant for putting both
the new brochure and the newsletter together.
Cathy
reported that she had met with Lee Rector of the Texas Skills
Standards Board who recently has been promoted to Deputy Director of
the Economic Work Force Development Board. She also said that she,
Karen Baird and Bob Kosar would be meeting to formulate future plans
with regards to the Texas Skills Standards. Cathy pointed out there
were a great deal of similarities between the Texas Skills Standard
key language and areas, and the previous Job Map and DACUM which was
done by the GCPTA in 1996. The
revision of the Job Map and DACUM performance objectives and
competencies to match the Texas Skills Standards language should be
fairly straightforward.
Subcommittee
on Education Gary Hicks & Rick Guzman
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NSF
Grant Update Joanna Kile
Joanna
reported the NSF team (Leslie Hunt and Suzanne Kolodzy) were not in
attendance because they were developing test banks for the
curriculum that had been developed under the NSF Grant.
She reported that all courses were complete with the
exception of PT I which would be finished before the end of August
2000. She reported that all Train-the-Trainer sessions, for those
piloting the 4 new NSF developed courses in the fall, were complete,
with the exception of Quality, which would be conducted next week on
August 16th.
Joanna
reviewed the timeline for the development of the 4 courses
throughout the NSF year showing they were right on schedule.
Joanna
offered the following colleges are Pilot Sites:
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Alvin Community College
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Baton Rouge Community College
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Brazosport College
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College of the Mainland
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Lamar State College Orange
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Lamar State College Port Arthur
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Lee College
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Louisiana Technical College Ascension
Campus
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
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Northern Oklahoma College
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San Jacinto College
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Texas State Technical College
Marshall
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Wharton County Junior College
The
following colleges are participating in the Return to Industry
Externship:
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Alvin Community College Chemistry and
Physics
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Brazosport College Math and Physics
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College of the Mainland Math
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Lamar Institute of Technology
Chemistry and Physics
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Lamar State College, Port Arthur Math
and Physics
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Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Chemistry, Physics
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Southwestern Illinois College
Chemistry
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Texas State Technical College
Marshall Chemistry and Physics
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Victoria College Chemistry
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Wharton County Junior College
Chemistry
The
following Industries are participating in the Return to Industry
Externship:
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BASF
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BP
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Celanese
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Dow Chemicals
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Dupont
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Eastman Chemical
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Equistar
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ExxonMobil
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Morton
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Phillips
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Sigma Chemical
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Sterling Chemicals
Joanna
offered that the colleges which were unable to participate in the
Externship this year would be afforded the opportunity next year.
She also informed everyone that the Chemistry, Math and
Physics modules that are developed will be piloted, revised and
disseminated.
Special
Note NSF Merv Treigle
Merv
Treigle reported that the NSF National Advisory Board had met on
July 17 & 18 and found the NSF Grant team to be outstanding in
their performance and delivery of very excellent material.
He also thanked Joanna and her team for their contribution
and dedication. The entire group applauded their efforts.
Subcommittee
on Distance Education Duncan Welder
Duncan
was unable to attend. Joanna
Kile reported that a meeting of the instructors who will pilot the
Distance Learning Course-Introduction to Process Technology had
taken place on July 21st.
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 are asked to provide the incumbent
operators/technicians to pilot this course.
It was reported that the Executive, Distance Education and
Education Subcommittees had all agreed on the 4 courses that will be
converted for distance delivery by the NSF & LAAP grants.
The
courses are:
q
SH&E & Quality
will be developed by the NSF grant team by August 31, 2001.
q
PT II & PT III will
be developed by the LAAP grant team and Training and Development
Systems (TDS) by August 31, 2001.
q
Instrumentation 1&2
will be revised by the NSF grant team and will be developed for
delivery by August 31, 2002.
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LAAP
Grant Update Joanna Kile and Scott Bruno
Scott
Bruno presented an update of the LAAP grant project. He also reported that the Introduction to Process
Technology Course had been presented to the Education Subcommittee.
The committee members toured and critiqued the modules and
provided feedback to Scott.
Joanna
reported that Futron Corporation of Houston and had been given the
contract to develop a Virtual World module of the Timtene Unit,
developed by Lou Caserta and Jim Widergren.
The target date for completion of Phase 1, the conversion of
the Timtene Unit to the Virtual World, is January 31, 2001.
Infusion of interactive exercises will be addressed during
Phase 2. These are capabilities that can be used in Distance
Learning. Cathy Gardner
and Steve Taylor of Futron demonstrated a Virtual World Module
developed for NASA, by Futron, to teach 5th graders about the space
module and science. The
module they demonstrated can soon be accessed on the web at http://virtualastronaut.jsc.nasa.gov.
Special
Awards and Recognition Joanna Kile & Bill Raley
The
following colleges and their representatives were recognized with a
Special Plaque for their outstanding support and contribution in the
development of the NSF grant curriculum and their representatives on
the Education Subcommittee were recognized and presented a shirt
bearing the Center for Advancement of Process Technology (CAPT)
logo:
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Alvin
Community College
Accepting
for the college Mahrez Rezgui
Industry
Representative to Education Subcommittee Steve Erickson, BP
College
Representative to Education Subcommittee Lou Caserta, Alvin CC
v
Baton
Rouge Community College
Accepting for the college Ronnie Hotard, Dow Chemicals -
Plaquemine, LA
v
Brazosport
College
Accepting for the college John Ray
College Representative to Education Subcommittee Gary
Hicks
v
College
of the Mainland
Accepting for the college James Templer
Industry
Representatives to Education Subcommittee Mike Kukuk, Sterling
Chemicals; Phillip Oliver, Valero; Duncan Welder, Marathon Ashland
Petroleum
College Representative to Education Subcommittee Bill
Raley
v
Del
Mar College
Accepting
for the college Lee Sloan
College
Representative to Education Subcommittee Terry Smith (retired)
v
Lamar
Institute of Technology
Accepting
for the college Bob Krienke, President
College Representative to Education Subcommittee Jim
Hebert
v
Lamar
State College Orange
Accepting for the college Sam Tobias
v
Lamar
State College Port Arthur
Industry Representative to Education Subcommittee Randy
Jones, Huntsman (resigned)
College Representative to Education Subcommittee Larry
Neff
v
Lee
College
Accepting for the college Paul Bolmanskie
Industry Representatives to Education Subcommittee Rick
Guzman, Celanese and Leonard Clark, ExxonMobil
College Representative to Education Subcommittee Paul
Bolmanskie
v
Louisiana
Technical College Ascension Campus
Accepting for the college Cleveland Marchand
v
Louisiana
Technical College Sowela Campus
Accepting for the college Clarence Hughes
v
McNeese
State University
Industry Representative to Education Subcommittee
Katherine Trahan
v
Mississippi
Gulf Coast Community College
Accepting for the college Johnny Tynes
v
San
Jacinto College Central Campus
Accepting for the college Clay Kelley
Industry
Representatives to Education Subcommittee Merv Treigle,
Albemarle and Judy Wright,
Celanese
College
Representative to Education Subcommittee Mike Varnell
v
Texas
State Technical College - Marshall
Accepting for the college Joe Green, President
Industry Representative to Education Subcommittee Martha
McKinley, Eastman Chemical
v
The
Victoria College
Accepting for the college Anne Isaac
v
Wharton
County Junior College
Accepting for the college Ron Calvert
College Representative to Education Subcommittee Ron
Calvert
The
GCPTA Executive Committee: Steve Ames, Merv Treigle, Ed Stiles, Rick
Guzman, Gary Hicks, Bill Raley and John Reed; were presented shirts
with the CAPT logo and web site on them.
Joanna thanked the Executive Committee for the guidance and
support they had provided to the NSF Team during the past year.
Financial
Report Ed Stiles
Ed
Stiles, Treasurer gave the financial report. He reported that
expenses to-date are $18,657.05. Income
from subscriptions received thus far is $28,250.
Ed also gave an explanation of the major expenses for the
year. 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.
College
Advisory Committees
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Del Mar Lee Sloan
announced that Terry Smith had resigned and they are looking for a
full time instructor. The
college has been awarded a $1.5 million NSF grant to develop web
based instructional modules for the incumbent workforce.
They will partner with Texas A&M Corpus Christi in the
development. Koch will
pilot the test modules.
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Brazosport Gary Hicks
reported they had conducted industry classes and had trained over
350 students for industry in addition to the regularly enrolled
students during the past school year.
Dow Chemical will now require all hirees to have a two-year
degree or finish within 3 years of their hire date.
Working with Dow to provide a schedule to allow shift workers
to attend college and get an AAS in Process Technology.
Their advisory committee is looking at how to drop the PE
requirement for a PTAC degree.
Wants to know if others are considering doing the same in
their program.
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College of the Mainland
Bill Raley reported he is currently looking to hire first fulltime
Process Technology Instructor. Pilot plant is about complete; it
should be in full use this fall.
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Alvin Mahrez Rezgui
reported students are being employed before graduating.
They have a program to help students to prepare for industry
testing and interviewing. Working
at starting up an internship program with industry.
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Mississippi Gulf Coast
Community College Johnny Tynes reported they had invited 20 plus
production managers and superintendents from industry to their
Advisory Committee Meeting. He
gave a summation of a 2 year effort to get the program off the
ground and how the GCPTA had helped get State approval for the
program. Members come
from a number of different industries such as chemical, pulp and
paper, power and plastics. The program will begin this fall with 4
courses being offered at night.
The industry managers committed to pay expenses for the
courses if they dont make Colleges required enrollment. Hope
is that a fulltime instructor will be hired by spring 2001.
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Wharton County Junior College
Joe Rowland reported that students were leaving the program and
getting hired. Working
on getting skid unit hooked-up.
The Process Technology program will move to a new location in
the spring 2001.
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TSTC Marshall Currently
converting from a quarter to a semester system.
Next Advisory Board meeting is August 25th. Will change description of courses from Chemical
Operator to Process Technician.
Currently working to start a co-op program.
Has a company willing to pilot the program.
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Baton Rouge Community College
Ronnie Hotard reported that Dow is working with the college to
get students who are working to finish their degree.
They had one who finished and they are planning to do a video
on how he managed to work and finish school.
He, Brian Keating and Bruce Waguespack met with others at the
Governors mansion to show how industry and education are
partnering to make Process Technology education a success.
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San Jacinto College Central
Mike Varnell reported that Jack Makarcyzk would be taking over
the duties of Department Chairman for Process Technology.
Mike thanked the Advisory Committee co-chairs, Donna Cochran,
Rohm & Haas and Merv Treigle, Albemarle for their contributions
and for helping to make the San Jacinto program a success.
All of the core courses will be taught.
They are piloting the Intro to Process Technology distance
courses this fall. Flyers
have been sent out advertising the course.
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Lee College Paul
Bolmanskie reported they had a new glass distillation unit.
New
Business
Steve
reminded all that GCPTA officer elections would be held at the
November 17, 2000 meeting. Anyone
wishing to nominate or run for an officer position should contact
Merv Treigle who is chair of the Rules and Bylaws Committee
responsible for the election nominations.
Bill Raley asked to speak to the membership and proposed that
the members consider the contributions of the current officers to
the success of the GCPTA and that the membership might be wise to
continue with the current officers because of all that is going on
with the GCPTA. The
officers thanked Bill for his comments.
Steve
proposed that a new Subcommittee for Tech Prep be formed and asked
for volunteers. Steve
stressed the need to have communication with high schools and
students because this is where we will be getting our future
students and workers.
The
following persons volunteered for the Tech Prep Subcommittee:
Eileen
Booher
Paul
Bolmanskie
Renea
Campbell
Donna
Cochran
Elaine
Frazier
Gary Hicks
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.
Mike
Kukuk reported that a fluid mechanics course was being developed in
Louisiana and is scheduled for completion by August 31st.
Ray Fox, Georgia Gulf; Carol Schulte, McNeese College;
Phillip Oliver, Valero; Bill Richardson, McNeese and Wayne Huckeba,
Citgo are the SMEs. Cathy
Williams-Foster and Phillip Oliver are completing the objectives and
content. Mike offered
that this course would offer a lot of the basic physics that a
process Technician needs on the job.
Alliance
Web Site
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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.
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Center for the Advancement of
Process Technology (CAPT) web site www.captech.org.
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Contact the GCPTA at atgcpta@msn.com.
Future
GCPTA Meetings
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
(has been extended to September 6th) information and
final 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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