INTRODUCTION OF IMPORTANT CANDIDATES (Prof. Auvinet)
New momentum for ISSMGE
Professor Gabriel AUVINET
Professor, National University of Mexico, UNAM (since 1970)
Head, Geocomputing Laboratory,
Instituto de Ingeniería, UNAM
ISSMGE Vice-President for North America (2009-2013)
Chair, ISSMGE TC 36 (2001-2009)
President, Mexican Society for Geotechnical Engineering (1991-1993)
Office phone: +52(55)56233500, ext 8324, Cell: +525554122915
http://www.gauvinetg.org/
gauvinetg@iingen.unam.mx
President of ISSMGE Candidate (2013-2017)
Nominated by Sociedad Mexicana de Ingeniería Geotécnica, and supported by: Argentina, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Paraguay, Spain, USA, Venezuela
ISSMGE celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2011. It was an opportunity to acknowledge the awesome work performed by our members during this period. To be able to stay on this path of excellence, our Society must remain faithful to the principles of scientific rigor, realism and engineering relevance of our work that were defined by the founders of Soil Mechanics. An Honorary Consultative Group constituted by former Presidents and Vice-Presidents of ISSMGE will be created to perform a technical and scientific audit of our Society and provide advice on general policies of ISSMGE. During the 2009-2013 period, a great effort was accomplished by ISSMGE board and its president to implement a new working structure involving a much larger number of members in ISSMGE management activities. The challenge for the new president during the 2013-2017 period will be to keep this new structure working harmoniously and efficiently. This will require an important input of energy. I am ready as a president to spend most of my time dedicated to the Society during the coming four years. This will imply transferring a large part of my professional and academic duties to my collaborators but I am ready to do that.
To keep improving ISSMGE and its modus operandi and adapting it to our evolving profession, priority will be given to fostering scientific and technical advances and ensuring their dissemination within and outside ISSMGE. In particular, I will focus on the following 13 areas:
Technical Committees. ISSMGE’s Technical Committees (TCs) are the strongest vehicle involving our members. Their mission should be clarified. Their main objective should be to establish a clear and compact State-of-the-Art reports on their main topic through review of literature, and organizing lectures, workshops and conferences. TCs and Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) operation rules will be reevaluated. TCs will be enabled to keep working in the ISSMGE President interim. Renewal of TC Chairs will be a continuous process based on the TC’s performance. Information shall be made to flow seamlessly from TCs chairs to TOC and to Vice-Presidents and the Board. The creation of new TCs will be welcome as long as there is a need for them and people willing to champion them.
Conferences. The International and Regional Conferences, with their professional and friendly content, will remain the main events of our Society. Specialized technical meetings will also be strongly encouraged. However, emphasis will be placed on relevance and quality rather than number of conferences. Conferences will also be better distributed among the six ISSMGE regions to ensure effective technology transfer.
Dissemination within and outside ISSMGE. The web page of our Society will become a hub with steady flow of information among members and potential users. It will include links to the key geo-journals, and academic and professional web pages and easy access to State-of-the-Art ISSMGE reports. The ISSMGE bulletin founded in 2005 will continue, as well as the “Geoworld” professional network.
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