PDD Meetings at the Fall 2005 AIChE Meeting in Cincinnati Key minutes and action items from the PDD steering committee and division meetings held in Cincinnati during the week of 10/30/05 follow: 1. Future AIChE meetings - 2006 Spring national mtg (4/23-27) in Orlando; 2006 Fall annual meeting (11/12-17) in San Francisco (theme - "Globalization of an Increasingly Diverse Profession"); 2007 Spring national mtg in Houston; 2007 Fall annual mtg in Salt Lake City.

2. Fall PDD student paper award - will continue to be sponsored by Lilly in 2006.

3. CTOC - has an initiative to attract more students to the AIChE. The PDD has several programming events geared toward student involvement beginning in 2006. A suggested student involvement activity with PDD was to have a student paper competition (possibly co-sponsored with AIChE) for Fall 2006, as part of their current student paper and design competitions. R. Rameswaran agreed to pursue this further. Student membership in PDD (for a nominal $1 annual fee) was also discussed. This will be pursued further with AIChE through G. Liebermann.

4. Two newest PDD areas - 12e - "Microprocess Engineering" and 12f - "Process Intensification" will begin programming in 2006.

5. Another new proposed PDD area - 12g - "Product Design". The development of this area is being spearheaded by M. Hill. Although this area has not been formalized yet, product design related programming is planned for 2006.

6. Projector for PDD mtgs - the two options are for the division to buy one and ship it around to the mtgs or to have members supply one of their own and rotate responsibility. The next time a projector is needed is for the Spring 2006 mtg in Orlando.

7. Membership survey - J. Peragine agreed to devise a membership survey. A draft will be prepared in early 2006 for review by the membership chair (M. Hill) and the rest of the steering committee. If time permits, the survey will be sent out to all current members before the 2006 Spring mtg.

8. PDD Awards committee - Due to the slate of new PDD officers, some of the committee members need to change. C. Teich will continue as the committee chair. New committee members are R. Rameswaran and A. Cartolano. Spring 2006 award nominations are due by early Jan. 2006. Nominations submitted previously will be reviewed as candidates for the Spring award.

9. PDD journal - Development of this journal is being spearheaded by Y. Huang. Since Yinlun could not attend this discussion, no final decision on next steps was made. The debate of an electronic vs. published journal is on-going. The steering committee generally concurred that an electronic journal (with possibly a members only link in the PDD website) was the easiest and most practical to devise. Another suggestion was to pursue a PDD journal section in CEP magazine. S. Smith from AIChE CEP could be contacted with plans and recommendations from PDD on a journal section in CEP. This will be discussed further at the PDD mtgs in Orlando.

10. 2006 PDS in Palm Springs, Ca. - L. O'Young is the symposium chair. Status and outstanding issues will be reported separately.

11. Elections (and automatic successions) - were held for the new slate of PDD officers in the division and programming areas. J. Peragine is the new PDD division chair. (Many thanks to C. Seymour, our outgoing PDD division chair and now our division past chair)! For electronic balloting, C. Cooper is running unopposed as the new PDD division chair- elect. R. Rooks is running unopposed as the new PDD division treasurer. Electronic balloting is on-going and will be completed by early Jan. 2006. Other new officers are:

o Programming chair - A. Johnston o Awards chair - C. Teich (continuing in current role) o Webmaster - since J. Vinson cannot continue in this role, L. O'Young has agreed to provide webmaster services through his company. Details will be finalized in early 2006. (Jack has done a great job over the years setting up our first website and maintaining it. Thanks Jack)! o 12a: chair - A. Sarafinas; chair-elect - K. Krause; activities chair - J. Lee o 12b: chair - J. Powell; chair-elect - D. Pintar; activities chair - E. Baier o 12c: chair - O. Aboul-Nasr; chair-elect - M. Loescher; activities chair - TBD (M. Nof)? o 12d: chair - J. Worstell; chair-elect and activities chair - TBD o 12e: chair - V. Hessel; chair-elect - K. VandenBussche; co-activities chairs - R. Besser and D. Brenchley o 12f: chair - R. Jachuck; chair-elect - L. Weatherley; activities chair - D. Edwards o 12g (future planned): chair - M. Hill o Liason to British IChemE - D. Edwards (Note: For the open or undecided positions in the areas, the area chairs are requested to fill and finalize these positions prior to the Spring 2006 mtg).