REPLY Society Strategy Development (SD6915)

[SDMAIL Zagonel, Aldo A]

Posted by  "Zagonel, Aldo A" <aazagon at sandia.gov>

Kim Warren asks: "what observable, measurable indicators you think would cause 
friends of SD to have a party celebrating its success in say 20 years from now?"

- An agreed-upon SD curriculum establishing basic, intermediate, and advanced 
  technique-based requirements

- A periodic ranking of all available college-level and graduate programs based 
  upon the fulfillment of these curricular requirements

- An adaptation of SD curriculum to pre-college education, tailoring the 
  technique-based requirements to the academic disciplines and grade levels

- a proactive plan to implement the pre-college curriculum in public & private 
  schools that tracks the number and location of schools adopting it, and some 
  measure of the level of implementation at each site

- increased number of Master's thesis and PhD dissertations

- increased number of annual job offerings requiring competency in SD

- increased number of annual or biannual SIG-based or regional conferences of 
  significance, including renown presenters, written proceedings and minimum "x" 
  number of participants

- increased Society logistical and financial support to sanctioned SIG-based and 
  regional conferences

- increased annual sponsorship to the Society by targeted business areas

To suggest a few that I could quickly brainstorm.

If we could generate a long list of short bullets like these, perhaps the next 
step would be to have the strategy committee refine and prioritize them. A 
survey could then seek feedback and concurrence from those in the field to 
assess if the list is representative of our collective aspirations (for the 
next 20 years).

Aldo Zagonel
Albuquerque, NM

Posted by  "Zagonel, Aldo A" <aazagon at sandia.gov>
posting date  Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:49:12 -0600