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Designing for Processors and Processing for Designers
TopCon will provide valuable cross-disciplinary technical content for designers of parts and tooling and processors. Both designers and processors can benefit from the insight and experience of the other discipline. If processors can better understand the challenges facing the designers, then certainly, they can be more effective. Likewise, if designers can better understand the issues facing the processors, then they can design parts and tooling enable processors to achieve highest efficiency and highest yields possible.
SPE to Change Constitution and Bylaws
Over the last couple of months, Leadership e-News has included articles telling you that the Constitution and Bylaws Committee has reviewed and recast the SPE Constitution and Bylaws. The revised document - the SPE Bylaws - has been reviewed by the SPE Executive Committee and will be presented to the SPE Council at its September meeting in Milwaukee. At that meeting, the Councilors will be asked to approve the revised Bylaws document for implementation immediately following a successful membership vote to dissolve the Constitution. The vote is actually a two-step process - the first reading of the change in September and a vote at the January meeting of Council.
Council will also be asked, in September, to approve the amendment of the existing Constitution of the Society by dissolving it. Their approval of this motion will start a process for the Society to conduct an all-member vote for the dissolution of the Constitution.
Why is SPE undertaking this effort? Times have changed considerably since the Constitution was adopted in 1942. Because the Constitution requires an all-member vote for amendment, SPE has avoided making any changes to that document. But the Constitution no longer reflects current practices, and changes are needed. The SPE attorney has also advised us that Bylaws are now the accepted legal corporate instrument.
Nothing has been lost in the revision undertaken by the Constitution and Bylaws Committee. Items from the Constitution were moved into the Bylaws - reviewed - reworded, if necessary - and tracked very carefully to make sure nothing was eliminated. Some items contained in the “old” Bylaws will not appear in the revised version. They have been moved into a Policy document instead. For example: The revised Bylaws still contain information on electing Society Officers. However, the specifics on how to conduct that election have been moved into the Policy document. Having a Policy document keeps the Bylaws succinct - and allows the Council more latitude in changing the “how-to’s” that comprise policy.
We will continue to keep you updated on how this Constitution and Bylaws change is proceeding through articles in Leadership e-News and separate emails. We hope you share this process with all your members so they are well informed when they receive a ballot early next year to vote on the dissolution of the Constitution.
Kishor Mehta
Chair, Constitution & Bylaws Committee