1. Agenda Item #4.b
American Nuclear Society Human Factors, Instrumentation and Controls Division (HFICD)
Presentation to the
ANS Board of Directors
Jamie Coble
14 June 2017, San Francisco, CA

2. HFICD Vision
The Human Factors, Instrumentation & Controls Division of ANS is the leading division for advancing and promoting measurement and control technologies and the interface between operators, controls and instruments.

3. HFICD Mission
Provide a forum for the exchange of technical information for practitioners within the field
Provide mechanisms for training and education for individuals entering the field or practitioners improving their skills
Serve as an advocated for advancing HFIC technology and/or practice within the nuclear arena
Serve as a point-of-access for external inquiries into nuclear HFIC technology and/or practices

4. HFICD Governance Officers: Executive Committee:
Chair: Jamie Coble Secretary: Brent Shumaker
First Vice-Chair: Sacit Cetiner Treasurer: Mehdi Tadjalli
Second Vice-Chair: Raymond Herb Past-Chair: Sean Smith
Executive Committee:
Vivek Agarwal Matthew Humberstone
Gordon Clefton Kathryn McCarthy
Michael Coppock John O’Hara Board Liaison
Julia Forbes Johanna Oxstrand Daniel Churchman
Leroy Hardin Edward Quinn EX Officio
Raymond Herb Richard Wood Hans Gougar
J Wesley Hines Zachary Welz

5. HFICD Governance
Governance Make up

6. HFICD Governance Incoming Officers:
Chair: Sacit Cetiner Secretary: Mehdi Tadjalli
First Vice-Chair: Ray Herb Treasurer: Timothy Hurst
Second Vice-Chair: Brent Shumaker Past-Chair: Jamie Coble
Incoming Executive Committee Members:
John Hernandez
Paul Hunton
Stephen McCord
Mitch McCrory

7. HFICD Governance Bylaws & Rules Status: Strategic Planning Status:
Updated and approved in May 2013
Available on HFICD website
Strategic Planning Status:
5-year plan for approved in 2015
Communication:
Website:
Newsletter status
June 2017 newsletter under preparation (as of May 19)
Archived newsletters available on website
Special section on HF/I&C in June 2017 issue of Nuclear News

8. HFICD Membership

10. Division Income (budgeted)
9th NPIC/HMIT embedded at ANS Annual Meeting
255 presentations
9 panel sessions
15 exhibitors
374 attending both ANS and NPIC/HMIT
86 attending only NPIC/HMIT
Preceded by workshop on digital I&C
36 attending

11. Division Expenses (budgeted)
Scholarships
Robert Uhrig Fellowship – Fan Zhang (UTK)
Joe Naser Scholarship – Austin Saint-Vincent (UTK)
Honors and Awards
Don Miller Award – Ted Quinn and Joe Naser
Ted Quinn Early Career Award – Jamie Coble
Student Support
$2500 to student conference
$500 student conference best paper award
Up to $4000 travel support for student ExComm member

12. Division Contributions to Society
Standards
HFICD does not currently support any ANS standards
Position Statements
HFICD does not currently support any ANS position statements
Considering position statements related to
Spent fuel pool monitoring
Post-accident and post-severe-accident monitoring
Cybersecurity
Affiliations with other technical organizations
Informal affiliations with IEEE, ISA, and KNS

13. Performance against Goals
Status
Membership
Pilot program to support the addition of HFICD for non-HFICD ANS members who attended NPIC/HMIT 2015 – In process
Meetings
Embedded NPIC/HMIT topical at 2017 Annual Meeting
Communications
Nuclear News special section on I&C/HF preceding NPIC/HMIT - complete
Publish special topic issue(s) of Nuclear Technology following NPIC/HMIT - In process
Governance
YMG Liaison (Jamie Coble) and student member of ExComm (Zach Welz)
Honors and Awards
Award DMA and TQECA, grad and undergrad scholarships. Nominate HFICD members for ANS Fellow.
Standards
Contribute to existing standards efforts in ISA, IAEA, IEEE, IEC, etc.

14. Summary
Successes:
Successful NPIC/HMIT in 2015, embedded meeting in 2017 Annual Meeting
Continue two-year meeting cycle
Division support for graduate and undergraduate scholarships, student conference, and student ExComm member
Two HFICD members elected to ANS Fellow at this meeting
Division awards for lifetime achievement (Don Miller Award) and early career award (Ted Quinn Award)

15. Summary Focus for Future Action: Growing Division Membership
Increase visibility with utilities – sponsoring sessions at UWC, continuing utility track at NPIC/HMIT
Increase student engagement – advertise scholarship opportunities, student conference opportunities, team with YMG
Implement pilot program to enroll non-HFICD ANS member attendees of NPIC/HMIT in the division and evaluate retention
Enhancing Division Value
Make past NPIC/HMIT meeting proceedings available to Division members through Collaborate
Continue to offer tutorials and special workshops before topical meetings
Investigate opportunities to co-organize meetings with IEEE (e.g., the sensors council) or Korean Nuclear Society (ISOFIC)
Encourage active use of Collaborate for discussion, archive, and information dissemination

16. Summary Requests for the BOD and Officers
Collaborate: default all division members to register for collaborate and receive daily s
Adopt a large society mentality for conferences
Page charges
Plenary speaker registration
Automatically enroll non-members as ANS members with non-member conference rate
Default to electronic delivery of Nuclear News