Programs Director
- Plan and execute of a regular schedule of Section meetings, specialist meetings, and field trips.
- Select speaker or speakers and arrange the meeting place.
- Encourage attendance at Section and specialist meetings, and welcome attendees.
- Arrange joint meetings with other professional societies when it is mutually beneficial.
Membership Director
- Maintain all available information and forms pertaining to qualifications and enrollment of new members and elevation to higher member grades in the Institute.
- Keep an up-to-date roster, maintained in an accurate manner, and make necessary reports to the Council on this activity.
- Encourage attendance at Section and specialist meetings, and assist in welcoming attendees.
- Provide special hospitality to new members, service to corporate members, and attempt to prevent delinquent members from dropping out.
- Be responsible for membership development and for encouraging membership upgrading.
Honors and Awards Director
- Recommend to the Council for special recognition, including the Engineer of the Year awards and Certificates of Appreciation, any members who have performed outstanding work for the Section.
- Submit to the Council the names of Section members who would be outstanding candidates for the annual Institute awards.
- Upon approval by the Council, aid in the preparation of the candidate's nomination forms and ensure that the nomination is submitted to the Institute in a timely manner.
- Upon request by the Institute or when circumstances warrant it, recommend to the Council any Section members who merit nomination for any Institute office.
Public Policy Director
- Promote the objectives of the Section and the Institute within the general area of public policy and public affairs.
- Monitor national developments in this area and organize timely and appropriate Section responses to them.
- Inform the public of contributions made by engineers and scientists in Institute-related disciplines to the solution of current societal problems.
- Encourage the use of expertise within the Section membership in the solution of local and regional problems.
- Where appropriate, conduct these activities in concert with other professional societies.
- No statements within the Section shall be construed as encouraging or authorizing lobbying or any other activity not in consonance with the objectives or the Institute.
