Institute Awareness
by
Bobby Grimes, VP – IPTI
bobby.grimes@bakerhughes.com
Mike Ireland, MD – Institutes
irelandm@asme.org
LTC 2011 – Dallas, Texas
March 4-5, 2011
Institutes Session Objectives
We will answer the following questions in
this session:
• What is An Institute?
• Overview of Existing Institutes
– Who are they?
– What do they do?
– How are they different from other sectors?
• What is the Institute Sector Board (ISB)?
• Should your group consider becoming an
Institute?
Institutes – Who We Are
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ASME members & volunteers
Dedicated ASME staff
Governed by ASME Policies 16.3 & 16.4
Institutes operate independently but still
work towards the ASME mission through
all their programs
• IGTI & IPTI both strive to serve and
expand their core markets while continually
promoting ASME and its benefits.
IPTI Staff
IPTI Board
Institute boards strive to be strategic rather than
tactical, since tactics are delegated to operating
committees & staff.
IGTI Staff
Institutes Managing
Director
(Ireland)
Expositions and
Communications
Specialist
(Barringer)
Communications
Coordinator (Watrous)
Senior Program
Manager Events
and Member Services
(Osborn)
Finance and
Office Coordinator
(Quinlin)
Event Specialist
(Sears)
Manager of
Professional &
Member Development
(Barton)
Administrator of
Conferences and
Expositions (Solanki)
Institutes Sector Board (ISB)
VISION
Grow and improve ASME’s Institutes
MISSION
Provide the organizational and
strategic linkages that enable ASME
Institutes to succeed.
ISB Membership
The ISB consists of leaders from across the
Institutes Sector:
• Senior VP
• Senior VP Elect (non-voting)
• VP from each Institute (IGTI, IPTI)
• Chair from each Institute’s Board
• Vice Chair from Each Institute (non-voting)
• Sector Managing Director (non-voting)
• Lead staff from each Institute (non-voting)
• LDI/Eclipse Intern (non-voting).
ISB Key Objectives
• Serve as communication link to and from
the ASME BoG
• Share best practices among the Institutes
and other ASME Sectors
• Facilitate communications and awareness
with other ASME Sectors
• Facilitate the development of new institutes
• Recommend mergers and/or acquisitions of
outside organizations to become Institutes
of ASME.
Types of Institute Structures
• Market specific group, similar to a Division
but focused on all aspects of that
marketplace (e.g., IGTI)
• Umbrella group focused on a broader
industry, made up of multiple Divisions
(e.g., IPTI)
• Other types of arrangements are possible,
since the Institutes model is flexible; does
anyone in the audience have any ideas?
Overview of IGTI & IPTI Events
• The next several slides will provide more
detailed information on IGTI and IPTI, to
serve as examples for what kinds of events
and activities are commonly created and
supported by the current Institutes
• Be thinking about what kinds of activities
seem to be missing, that you think should
be included; we will discuss this briefly
later in the session.
International Gas
Turbine Institute
• ASME founded in 1879
• ASME Oil and Gas Power Division:
Gas Turbine Coordinating Committee (1944)
• ASME Gas Turbine Division (1947)
• April 1956 – 1st ASME Gas Turbine Conference
and Exposition – Washington, D.C.
• ASME International Gas Turbine Institute (1986)
– Part of ASME, staff headquartered in Atlanta, GA
Sir Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain
IGTI Members/Volunteers
• Over 8000 ASME members are involved in IGTI
• International Board of Directors
– Academia, Industry and Government
• 16 Technical Committees
• 7 – IGTI Honors and Awards are presented
annually.
Mission Statement
IGTI is dedicated to supporting the
international exchange and development of
information to improve the design,
application, manufacture, operation and
maintenance, and environmental impact of
all types of gas turbines, turbomachinery
and related equipment
IGTI+
 IGTI Board has approved expansion beyond
gas turbines to energy production, storage,
and utilization through turbomachinery.
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Steam
Wind
Solar
Industrial Fans
Synthetic/Bio Fuels
Key Activities
• Turbo Expo Technical Conference
and Exposition
• Specialty Conferences
• Gas Turbine Users Symposium
• Professional Development
• Publications and Communications
• Industry Advocacy.
• Yearly Technical Congress – 1000
peer-reviewed papers presented
over 5-days
• 3000 Attendees from over 50
countries
• 150 Exhibits
• 20 Sponsors
• Special Events
– ECE/Student Mixer
– Women in GT Dinner
• Alternates between North America
and Europe
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June, 2009 – Orlando, Florida
June, 2010 – Glasgow, Scotland
June, 2011 – Vancouver, Canada
June, 2012 – Copenhagen, Denmark
Other Conferences: Specialty
Conference – Air Force (AELMC)
“Gas Turbines for a National Energy Infrastructure”
Specialty Conference
Gas Turbine Users
Symposium (GTUS)
• Tutorials, Workshops, Panel Sessions, Roundtables
for 200 Operation and Maintenance End Users
• Co-location Strategy. Customized to meet need of
specific group.
– Currently with TAMU Turbomachinary Symposium
Professional Development
• Basic and intermediate training
programs on variety of platforms
– Computer-based
– CD-ROM
– Classroom
• Webinars on salient industry topics
• Training Week
– On site, Hands-on
– Customizable
Publications and
Communications
• Journals
• Global Gas Turbine
News in ME
• Papers and Publications
• Website: http://igti.asme.org
• 700 fans on Facebook
Industry Advocacy
• With ASME Washington Office writing
point papers, promoting gas turbines,
educating congressional staffers,
support funding requests for research
projects
• Over 20 years, IGTI has donated
nearly $1million in student grants
IPTI
IPTI is composed of three separate divisions:
• Petroleum Division (PD)
• Offshore, Ocean and Arctic Engineering
Division (OOAE)
• Pipeline Systems Division (PSD)
These divisions work separately and together on
new and existing programs. Over 16,000 ASME
members are affiliated with IPTI.
IPTI
The International Petroleum Technology
Institute (IPTI) of ASME is a professional and
technical institute that provides advanced
educational, networking and technology transfer
opportunities for the oil & gas and offshore
engineering community and related industries.
IPTI was formally chartered as an ASME Institute
in 2004.
IPTI Events
IPTI Events
IPTI events include
both mission-only
events, and revenue
generating events
The full list of IPTI
events doesn’t fit on a
single slide or sheet of
paper!
IPTI Events:
Awards Banquet
BMEA Judging and Reception
CE
Crawfish Boil
DeepGulf (JV with Quest Offshore)
Gas Lift Workshop and Courses
Global Pipeline Award
Golf Tournament
International Pipeline Conference
IOPF and Exposition
MCE (JV with Quest Offshore)
OMAE Conference and Courses
OTC Exhibit
Pistol Shoot
Sporting Clays Tournament
IPTI Student and Young Engineer
Events:
Collegiate Council Meetings (2)
Early Career Dinner / Speaker Meeting
Early Career Informational Meeting
Outreach for Engineers
Student Professional Development
Conferences (2)
IPTI Other Activities:
Funding Requests
Student Scholarship
Visiting Lecturer
Mission
Only
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Revenue
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Mission
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Revenue
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Mission
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Revenue
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ASME-IPTI Funded Student Programs
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Collegiate Council & Student Intern
FIRST Regional & Individual Teams
Outreach for Engineers
Student Professional Development Conferences
Student Scholarships
Individual High School Robotics Teams
BEST High School Robotics
CSTEM
Engineers without Borders
I-SWEEEP
Student Section Recruiting Events
Individual Funding Requests
• Space City Best
• Lamar High Robotics
• CSTEM
• Edgewood ISD FIRST
• FIRST Regional
• A&M Section BBQ
• Rotary Club of Humble
• Engineers w/o B.
• I-SWEEEP
• OTC Crawfish Boil at UH Campus
IPTI Events
IPTI Fun…
…and IPTI Forums
How Institutes Differ From Divisions
Institutes typically:
• Have paid dedicated staff
• Pay for their own offices
• Budgets approved by COFI
• Strategic, market-focused volunteer Boards
• Significant reserves in custodial fund
• Generally, conduct a wider range of activities.
How Institutes Are Similar to Divisions
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We are all part of ASME
Driven by active volunteers
Focus on technical areas
Conduct conferences, do peer review, author
publications and journals
• Want to grow their units and help ASME grow in
revenue, membership, and member benefits.
How Institutes Benefit ASME
• Provide focus on specific industries and their
specific member needs
• Allows for more volunteer involvement
• Dedicated staff in combination with active
volunteers means more successful events
• Can be self-sufficient, self-guided, and financially
stable, thus reducing parent management
• Can provide intellectual property and technical
resources to parent
• Provides an opportunity for larger and more
diverse membership.
ASME Policy 16.3 Requirements (handout)
An ASME Institute:
• Must have annual gross revenue > $1 MM
• Must generate a surplus, net of all business and operational
costs, including reimbursement of ASME administrative and
overhead costs
• Must have a governing Board
• Must have a charter approved by the ISB & BOG
• Must have suitable vision and mission statements
• Must have dedicated staff and volunteers to direct its
activities in accordance with ASME operating procedures.
Potential Future Institutes
• Existing ASME Divisions, but also…
• Many smaller Mechanical Engineering
societies:
– Specific Industry Segment
– Geographic Area
– Member Demographics
• Even more candidate Engineering/Scientific
societies.
Next Steps – Is My Group a Candidate to
Become an Institute Now?
• Does anyone in the audience have any ideas on
forming a new institute?
• Present your ideas and/or proposals to the ISB,
they will discuss this with you and your group
leadership (contact info on last slide)
• Assistance can be provided to create a business
plan with organizing volunteers and staff from
Institutes.
Institute Awareness
For questions or comments
Bobby Grimes
(bobby.grimes@bakerhughes)
Mike Ireland
(irelandm.asme.org)
Websites:
IGTI: http://igti.asme.org/
IPTI : http://www.asme-ipti.org/
ISB: email Dilip Ballal, Sr VP Institutes
dilip.ballal@udri.udayton.edu
Presentation available at
www.asmeconferences.org/ltc11/
presentations.cfm
Also IGTI & IPTI Marketing Material
handouts are in the back
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