AGENDA Council meeting to be held at e Central TAFE corner of Royal and Fielder Streets East Perth at 5.30 pm on Monday 7/12/2015.

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1 Western Australia Branch PO Box 811 Canning Bridge WA 6153 Australia T Mob: bobjensen1@bigpond.com ABN THE MATERIALS SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA AGENDA Council meeting to be held at e Central TAFE corner of Royal and Fielder Streets East Perth at 5.30 pm on Monday 7/12/ Apologies 2. Minutes of previous Council meeting 3. Business arising from the minutes 4. Correspondence/ s 5. Treasurer s Report (Includes meeting attendance) 6. Technical Program + Ron Cecil lecture + Sir Frank Ledger Breakfast 7. Corresponding Member s Report 8. Seminars, Training Courses, National Conference, Marketing - 9. Social Program 10. Branch Issues CMatP Membership 11. Branch and Institute awards, Student Issues/Student awards 12. Engineers Australia Issues 13. MA website 14. MOU - Central TAFE/Materials Australia 15. Regional members 16. Other business

2 Western Australia Branch PO Box 811 Canning Bridge WA 6153 Australia T Mob: bobjensen1@bigpond.com ABN THE MATERIALS SOCIETY OF ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA MINUTES OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIA BRANCH COUNCIL DATE: 9/11/2015 PLACE: OPENED BY: PRESENT: e Central TAFE, corner of Royal and Fielder Streets East Perth Geoff Williams Louise Petrick, Leo Kwok, Mike Krachler, Jessica Down, Stuart Folkard, Paul Howard, Geoff Williams, Colin Lorrimar, Bob Jensen 1. APOLOGIES: Steve Algie, Steve Rennie 2. MINUTES: Moved that the minutes of the Branch Council meeting held on 12/10/2015 be accepted: Louise Petrick seconded Leo Kwok 3. BUSINESS ARISING As decided at the previous Council meeting a copy of the minutes of the previous Council meeting will be forwarded to the MA national office for inclusion on the MA website. Action: Bob Jensen 4. CORRESPONDENCE/ S INWARD Received From Author Details Nil OUTWARD Sent to Author Details Mr J Hall G Williams Invitation to the SFLB

3 5. TREASURER S REPORT The Treasurer, Mr Leo Kwok, tabled the following report.

4 Creditors Concerning payments to creditors Council was requested to approve reimbursements as follows: Geoff Williams Jessica Down $63 (For beverages and ice) $215 (For food for this evening s meal) A motion to confirm these payments was moved and agreed: Louise Petrick; seconded Mike Krachler. Cheque Account Signatories Concerning the WA Branch Bankwest cheque account signatories matter raised at the last meeting, Paul Howard advised that he will take necessary action prior to the first 2016 Council meeting. Action: Paul Howard 6. TECHNICAL PROGRAM + Ron Cecil Lecture + SFLB SFLB Registrations Paul Howard advised that 41 people had registered and forecast there will be a total of at least 50 attendees. Banner Geoff Williams agreed to take the WA Branch banner to the function Name tags Paul Howard will address this matter Payment To cater for late payers Leo Kwok agreed to take several copies of payment/receipt forms Technical Program Tentative technical presentation topics/functions early in 2016 include: Anthea Airey factors affecting the aging characteristics of concrete Composites Laurie Walker Plant visit (Carnegie Wave Energy?) CUT, UWA, ECU student presentations Joint meeting with ACA Colin Lorrimar agreed to continue development of the 2016 technical program. Action Colin Lorrimar 7. CORRESPONDING MEMBERS REPORT Geoff Williams advised that Steve Algie had dispatched a report of Peter Laczko s Failure Analysis Why bother presentation. 8. SEMINARS, TRAINING COURSES, NATIONAL CONFERENCE Paul Howard advised that the Material Innovations in Surface Engineering national conference has received 45 registrations. Paul also advised that it is planned to run a wear course in WA early in the new year. 9. SOCIAL PROGRAM The sundowner at Clancy s Fish Pub attracted a disappointing number of attendees. It was agreed that further thought has to go into the formatting and promotion of social functions.

5 10. BRANCH ISSUES CMatP Jessica Down is about to mail details of revised auditing procedures to CMatP s to ensure they comply with requirements for retaining their accreditation. Membership: NTR. 11. BRANCH AND INSTITUTE AWARDS & 12. ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA ISSUES NTR 13. MA WEBSITE Stuart Folkard and Geoff Williams discussed the need to remedy and/or clarify the website information concerning the association between MA and Engineers Australia. Stuart agreed to take appropriate action. Action: Stuart Folkard Colin Lorrimar advised that information on the website concerning MA member benefits is confusing and had discussed the issue with Tanya Smith. Tanya agreed to take action. 14. MOU CENTRAL TAFE/MATERIALS AUSTRALIA Geoff Williams acknowledged that he has an obligation to write to Central TAFE to book the Presentation Room for the second Monday for each of the months March through to November 2016 and the Board Room for Council meetings for each of the months February through to December Action Geoff Williams 15. REGIONAL MEMBERS NTR

6 16. OTHER BUSINESS Next meeting It was agreed that the next Council meeting will held on 7/12/2015 rather than 14/12/2015 Congratulations In discussions with various parties Geoff Williams has gathered that Stuart Folkard has had significant success in stimulating activity in other States. For this effort Stuart should be congratulated. CLOSURE: The meeting was closed at 6.00 p.m. NEXT MEETING: The next meeting at: 5.00 p.m. on 7/12/2015 R L Jensen Secretary, Materials Australia WA Branch G. Williams President, Materials Australia WA Branch