GCPTA MEETING MINUTES
At Nassau Bay Hilton Hotel
Date: Friday, August 27, 1999
Time: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

The meeting was opened by Steve Ames and the participants introduced themselves.

Voting - Gary Smith of DuPont

In District Associate - Troy Brady of TPC Performance Solutions, John Clinton of Chevron, Ronald Hotard of Dow Chemical, Johnette Jackson of Firestone Synthetic Rubber and Latex Company, and Sam Tobias of Lamar State College - Orange

Out-of-District Associate - Katherine Farnham of BP and Kathy Farrar of the Louisiana Department of Labor

Approval of last meeting minutes - Minutes approved 8-27-99

The Student Workbooks for the Safety, Health & Environment and Introduction to Process Technology courses are priced at $20.00 each, (sold in lots of ten ). The Instructor Manuals for Safety, Health & Environment is priced at $160.00, Introduction to Process Technology at $195.00 for each guide. These books are now ready for purchase. For your order form, see the GCPTA Web site at www.processtech.org.

The Gulf Coast Process Technology Alliance has received its non-profit organization, 501 (C)3. Bylaws will be amended for officers positions. New position of TREASURER.

Next Career Expo will be Friday, February 11, 2000. Next newsletter, Issue 8, will go out in November.

International Process Technology Alliance Conference will be Tuesday, September 28 at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans Louisiana. For more information, please contact Valerie. The API Conference is Wednesday, September 29 - Friday October 1, 1999. For hotel information, please see the GCPTA web site at: www.processtech.org. Graduates with two-year degrees and are looking for a job, please send a disk copy of resume formatted in Microsoft Word 6.0 or better to:

Gulf Coast Process Technology Alliance
c/o Valerie Billiot
2800 Decker Drive, NW 82
Baytown, Texas 77522

These resumes will be posted on the GCPTA web site. Graduates must be willing to relocate. Please create a privacy agreement form for all graduates to sign if they would like to have their resumes posted on the Internet. Make sure to send a signed copy of the privacy agreement form with the disk.

The advisory committee will report to the Texas Skill Standards Board. Anyone interested in membership for this subcommittee, contact Cathy at 713-215-3262 or at cfoster@mail.mainland.cc.tx.us.

Four new positions will be funded by the NSF Grant. The new positions are: Program Assistant (Full Time)- Amy Stark, Senior Instructional Designer (Full Time) - Leslie Hunt, Curriculum Director (Full Time) - Cathy Williams-Foster, Curriculum Developer (Half Time) -Suzanne Kolozzy, Distance Learning Instructional Technologist (Half Time) and a Graphic Arts designer are still needed. Also, PT1, PT2, and PT3 will need Subject Matter Experts (SMEs). NSF Grant activities start September 1, 1999.

Survey results are available. Next Distance Education Subcommittee meeting - Friday, September 24, 1999, 8:00am-11:00pm at College of the Mainland in room T-171. To RSVP, please contact Valerie at 281-834-0766.

Subscriptions are needed. If you are a GCPTA member, please send your subscription in.

Tech. Physics has been added
Adopted WECM courses
Rated exemplary by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
PT 3 has been completed

Rated exemplary by Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Testingers Engineering added classrooms to new building for process technology
Built 1st SKID Unit
New plans in process
Total of 6 SKIDS
May 2000 - 10 or 15 graduates

Internship program growing - 10 -15 interns; Subcommittee bringing interns into control rooms

Revised interview process

Duncan Welder - New interim chairman of Process Technology Advisory Committee

(Learning Anytime Anywhere Partnership) - GCPTA has been awarded this grant. The grant is for the amount of $921,000.00 and will start September 1, 1999. Program Director - Joanna Kile

Web Site www.processtech.org under construction by Bob Kosar. If your school or company has a web site and it is not accessible by just a click, contact the webmaster, Bob Kosar by e-mail: bobkosar@hal-pc.org. College of the Mainland is hosting server.

Alliance Video by LarMar Video Productions Inc. - Call 225-869-8015 or by e-mail larmar@stargazer.net. Alliance will get 10 copies of video free, the video will be sold to Alliance members. This video has been sent out to 75 area schools (high school and jr. high school). This was funded through grant money provided to the GCPTA by Eileen Booher. Video is ready for purchase now. Richard Marino of LarMar Video Productions will sell video for $10.00 each.

FUTURE MEETINGS

Thirty people in attendance
Meeting Adjourned at 12:00 pm

Respectfully submitted,

Valerie M. Billiot, Administrative Assistant
Gulf Coast Process Technology Alliance