News about the International Society of Automation
While summer is just now warming up, ISA’s season of conferences and events is well on its way to another sizzling success. To date, ISA has conducted five of the seven technical division symposia scheduled for the year: the 58th Analysis Division Symposium in April; the 59th International Instrumentation Symposium and MFPT 2013 in mid-May; [...]
Everybody’s talking about the lack of qualified automation professionals – “autopros” as I have referred to these fine folks in previous blogs – to meet the needs of process manufacturers starving for employees. Everybody’s talking about it, but some are doing something about it. Here at ISA, we do both. Talking is my forte (ask [...]
Voting for this year’s Member’s Choice Awards is now open. The Member’s Choice Awards recognizes those individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership as decided by someone who knows them best — you! There are many wonderful things about being awarded the Member’s Choice Award — peer recognition, an amazing trophy, bragging rights, and an incredible [...]
I/O, I/O, so off to work I go…simple, right? Input. Output. Repeat. That’s the recipe for process automation, there’s no denying it. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? If only it were that simple. If it required nothing more than to memorize this little recipe, we could get a dumb robot (programmed in Fortran!) to handle our [...]
With the dawn of the new year comes a need to move towards a realistic objective of achieving success. It’s a great opportunity for all us to work together and achieve the goal of taking the professional voluntary organization ISA to greater heights, by increasing the membership base and improving brand imaging. With the above [...]
Recently I joined about a dozen other association executive directors for an invitation-only meeting in Hong Kong to discuss globalization strategies and challenges within the association community. We met as part of the Key Global Association Committee, which is sponsored by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). The Key Global Association Committee (KGAC) has [...]
Have you submitted a nomination for this year’s Celebrating Excellence awards? The Celebrating Excellence awards program is an extension of our time-honored practice of recognizing those companies and individuals, both members and non-members, who have contributed to the Society and automation industry. We depend on you to help us identify those volunteers and leaders who [...]
I travel on airplanes a lot in my many ventures, and I always try to catch a glimpse into the pilot’s cabin as I’m boarding. Don’t you? I just want to see who is in there and whether they look like they know what they’re doing. I want to see that smiling, confident pilot with [...]
Dale Gaerke, P.E., has been honored by the engineering community of Toledo and Northwest Ohio with its highest distinction, 2013 Engineer of the Year. The award, a longtime tradition of the Technical Society of Toledo and the Toledo Society of Professional Engineers, was made in conjunction with Engineers Week 2013, which runs February 17-23. Each [...]
The advent of a new year is the ideal time to take a fresh look at all the different ways ISA members can get involved in ISA sections and divisions. As someone who has been highly engaged for many years in my local (Philadelphia) ISA section, and has had the honor of serving the Society [...]
