Summary
The Bechtel Innovation Design Center serves Purdue students by enabling broad, multidisciplinary opportunities to experience hands-on skill in manufacturing and prototyping. The enabling method is to provide on-demand training and safe access to world-class processes and technologies. The students then build on this experience of maufacturing to inform their professional careers.
The industrial advisory board serves the critical role of connecting the Bechtel Innovation Design Center and its students with industry. The board assesses the student’s needs and supports the center in making the appropriate technologies available. The board provides accountability for the center to ensure its industrial relevance.
Objectives
The primary objectives of the advisory board are to:
- Provide input on the center’s strategic plans and goals
- Advise on technologies to equip the center for the future
- Support the provision of these technologies
- Liaise between students and industry
Membership
The board will consist of a diverse mix of people from various professions, not to exceed 15 members. Membership will be offered by the Director based on contributions to the center, advice from current members and perceived technical expertise and need.
Members will be listed on the Bechtel Center’s website with a short biography of their company and themselves as an individual.
Participation
Members are expected to be active participants and will be expected to attend a minimum of one meeting per year, and not fewer than three meetings in two years. Failure to attend will result in potential removal from the board.
Officers
The officers of the board consist of the chair and chair-elect. They are elected from the membership of the board. The term of service of the officers is two years.
- Chair. The chair shall preside over meetings of the board and provide guidance in achievement of its goals.
- Chair-elect. The chair-elect shall preside over board meetings in the absence of the chair and has responsibility for coordinating the activities of any ad-hoc committees of the board.
Election of the chair and chair-elect takes place at the spring meetings of the board, preferably one year apart. A simple majority of votes cast by members present is required for election.
Meetings
The board normally meets in the spring and fall of each academic year. In addition to the two regular meetings held each year, special meetings of the board and ad-hoc committees may be called by the chair.
The chair, in collaboration with the Director, sets the dates for meetings of the board.
The agenda will be created in collaboration with the Director, and input solicited before the meeting. The final agenda will be provided at least 10 days prior to the meeting. Suggestions for the next agenda will be made at the end of each meeting.
Expenses
Expenses associated with participation are the responsibility of the respective council member.