Agenda Item #4.b American Nuclear Society Human Factors, Instrumentation and Controls Division (HFICD) Presentation to the ANS Board of Directors Jamie Coble 14 June 2017, San Francisco, CA

HFICD Vision The Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls Division of ANS is the leading division for advancing and promoting measurement and control technologies and the interface between operators, controls and instruments.

HFICD Mission Provide a forum for the exchange of technical information for practitioners within the field Provide mechanisms for training and education for individuals entering the field or practitioners improving their skills Serve as an advocated for advancing HFIC technology and/or practice within the nuclear arena Serve as a point-of-access for external inquiries into nuclear HFIC technology and/or practices

HFICD Governance Officers: Executive Committee: Chair: Jamie Coble Secretary: Brent Shumaker First Vice-Chair: Sacit Cetiner Treasurer: Mehdi Tadjalli Second Vice-Chair: Raymond Herb Past-Chair: Sean Smith Executive Committee: Vivek Agarwal Matthew Humberstone Gordon Clefton Kathryn McCarthy Michael Coppock John O’Hara Board Liaison Julia Forbes Johanna Oxstrand Daniel Churchman Leroy Hardin Edward Quinn EX Officio Raymond Herb Richard Wood Hans Gougar J Wesley Hines Zachary Welz

HFICD Governance Governance Make up

HFICD Governance Incoming Officers: Chair: Sacit Cetiner Secretary: Mehdi Tadjalli First Vice-Chair: Ray Herb Treasurer: Timothy Hurst Second Vice-Chair: Brent Shumaker Past-Chair: Jamie Coble Incoming Executive Committee Members: John Hernandez Paul Hunton Stephen McCord Mitch McCrory

HFICD Governance Bylaws & Rules Status: Strategic Planning Status: Updated and approved in May 2013 Available on HFICD website Strategic Planning Status: 5-year plan for 2016-2021 approved in 2015 Communication: Website: http://hficd.ans.org Newsletter status June 2017 newsletter under preparation (as of May 19) Archived newsletters available on website Special section on HF/I&C in June 2017 issue of Nuclear News

HFICD Membership

Division Income (budgeted) 9th NPIC/HMIT embedded at ANS Annual Meeting 255 presentations 9 panel sessions 15 exhibitors 374 attending both ANS and NPIC/HMIT 86 attending only NPIC/HMIT Preceded by workshop on digital I&C 36 attending

Division Expenses (budgeted) Scholarships Robert Uhrig Fellowship – Fan Zhang (UTK) Joe Naser Scholarship – Austin Saint-Vincent (UTK) Honors and Awards Don Miller Award – Ted Quinn and Joe Naser Ted Quinn Early Career Award – Jamie Coble Student Support $2500 to student conference $500 student conference best paper award Up to $4000 travel support for student ExComm member

Division Contributions to Society Standards HFICD does not currently support any ANS standards Position Statements HFICD does not currently support any ANS position statements Considering position statements related to Spent fuel pool monitoring Post-accident and post-severe-accident monitoring Cybersecurity Affiliations with other technical organizations Informal affiliations with IEEE, ISA, and KNS

Performance against Goals Status Membership Pilot program to support the addition of HFICD for non-HFICD ANS members who attended NPIC/HMIT 2015 – In process Meetings Embedded NPIC/HMIT topical at 2017 Annual Meeting Communications Nuclear News special section on I&C/HF preceding NPIC/HMIT - complete Publish special topic issue(s) of Nuclear Technology following NPIC/HMIT - In process Governance YMG Liaison (Jamie Coble) and student member of ExComm (Zach Welz) Honors and Awards Award DMA and TQECA, grad and undergrad scholarships. Nominate HFICD members for ANS Fellow. Standards Contribute to existing standards efforts in ISA, IAEA, IEEE, IEC, etc.

Summary Successes: Successful NPIC/HMIT in 2015, embedded meeting in 2017 Annual Meeting Continue two-year meeting cycle Division support for graduate and undergraduate scholarships, student conference, and student ExComm member Two HFICD members elected to ANS Fellow at this meeting Division awards for lifetime achievement (Don Miller Award) and early career award (Ted Quinn Award)

Summary Focus for Future Action: Growing Division Membership Increase visibility with utilities – sponsoring sessions at UWC, continuing utility track at NPIC/HMIT Increase student engagement – advertise scholarship opportunities, student conference opportunities, team with YMG Implement pilot program to enroll non-HFICD ANS member attendees of NPIC/HMIT in the division and evaluate retention Enhancing Division Value Make past NPIC/HMIT meeting proceedings available to Division members through Collaborate Continue to offer tutorials and special workshops before topical meetings Investigate opportunities to co-organize meetings with IEEE (e.g., the sensors council) or Korean Nuclear Society (ISOFIC) Encourage active use of Collaborate for discussion, archive, and information dissemination

Summary Requests for the BOD and Officers Collaborate: default all division members to register for collaborate and receive daily emails Adopt a large society mentality for conferences Page charges Plenary speaker registration Automatically enroll non-members as ANS members with non-member conference rate Default to electronic delivery of Nuclear News