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Brandes Smith
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Board on Technical Knowledge Dissemination

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:

ASME Support Staff:

New! Projects and Programs:

Click on a link below to view projects and programs supported by the BTKD


New Product Development Funding