Purpose: The Board on Technical Knowledge Dissemination was (BTKD) was founded to guide the technical knowledge dissemination activities of the Knowledge and Community (K&C) Sector.

Responsibilities: BTKD reports to the Technical Communities Operation Board (TCOB) and oversees, coordinates, and guides five Committees.

Strategic Planning Committee (SPC)

• Coordinates with various BTKD related units (divisions, groups, committees) on strategic analysis and provides recommendations on strategic guidelines through BTKD, and
• Assists socialization and communication among technical divisions, technical groups, and BTKD managed committees to formulate successful and efficient strategic guidance,
• Emphasizes the multidisciplinary, inter-division emerging technology topics.

Conference Planning Committee (CPC)

• Approves budgets, dates, and business/project plans for proposed conferences
• Assures compliance with the ASME conference calendar
• Assures compliance with ASME Event Policy – P.12.1
• Approves conference publication strategy (proceedings, print-on-demand, etc.)
• Supports and mentors conference organizers
• Provides conference planning training as needed

Technical Committee on Publications and Communications (TCPC)

• Approves editors and associate editors, approves journal pages, approves new journals
• Implements strategies to increase quality and impact
• Approves operating budgets
• Approves copyright process
• Creates modes of readily available technical information

Congress Steering Committee (CSC)

• Responsible for high-level logistics for the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) (location, duration, budget, operational guidelines) to satisfy K&C objectives
• Oversees Congress Technical Program Committee

Interdisciplinary Councils Committee (ICC)

• Sponsors timely cross-disciplinary activities/products, to foster collaboration among ASME Technical Divisions and to provide institutional agility to quickly respond to new strategic opportunities.

Other responsibilities include providing to TCOB the 5 committee products/responsibilities, acting as a TCOB representative to ASME as a whole, with respect to technical knowledge dissemination, overseeing pertinent information flow and coordination within TCOB Committees/Boards, and within BTKD committees, and providing annual reports to the TCOB on Committee performance.

BTKD collaborates with other areas of ASME including Institutes, Training & Development, SMG, Programs & Activities best practices entities, Global sector for Section conferences, publications.

Chair: Russell Skocypec, rdskocy@sandia.gov

Vice-Chair: Hornsen (HS) Tzou, hstzou@engr.uky.edu or hstzou@zju.edu.cn (and Interdisciplinary Councils Committee (ICC) Chair)

Members:

• Chinh Bui, chinh.bui@hs.utc.com (Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) Chair)
• Amit Bagchi, bagchia@asme.org (SPC Vice-Chair)
• Hamid Hamidzadeh, hhamidzadeh@tnstate.edu (Conference Planning Committee (CPC) Chair)
• Vikas Prakash, vikas.prakash@case.edu (CPC Vice-Chair and Interdisciplinary Councils Committee (ICC) Vice-Chair)
• Shiv Kapoor, sgkapoor@illinois.edu (Publications and Communications Committee (TCPC) Chair)
• Dennis Siginer, dsiginer@pi.ac.ae (TCPC Vice-Chair)
• Greg Kowalski, gkowal@coe.neu.edu (Congress Steering Committee (CSC) Chair)
• Pradeep Lall, lall@eng.auburn.edu (Congress Steering Committee (CSC) Chair-Elect)
• Julie Chen, julie_chen@uml.edu (Congress Steering Committee (CSC) Vice-Chair)

ASME Support Staff:

• Brandy Smith, smithb@asme.org

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