10th General Assembly of iftoMM
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- The period June 2000 to May 2001
- The period June 2001 to May 2002
- The period June 2002 to May 2003
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The period 2000 – 2003The IFToMM 9th General Assembly was arranged on June 23, 1999 in Oulu, Finland. Chief Delegate from 37 member committées were present and 8 absent. Election of the Executive council for the term, January 1, 2000 through December 31, 2003 happened in the meeting. The new Executive council was as follows. Officers
President K.J. Waldron (USA) Vicepresident J-C. Guinot (France) Secretary General T. Leinonen (Finland) Treasurer R. Bicker (U.K.) Members M. Hiller (Germany) T. Huang (China-Beijing) T. Kedzior (Poland) H. Miura (Japan) A. Rovetta (Italy) G. Stepan (Hungary)
Constitution Committee (2000 – 2003): Jorge Angeles (Chair) Huirong Meng (China-Beijing) Ladislav Pust (Czech Republic) J.S. Rao (India) Terry Shoup (USA) Nominating Committee (2000 – 2003): Jorge Angeles (Chair) Joseph Davidson (USA) Elizabeth Filemon (Hungary) Hong Sen Yan (China-Taipei). The Reports of activities of the Secretary General are presented here during the four one year periodsThe period June 1999 to May 2000
- About the decisions of EC were also informed in IFToMM Newsletter Vol. 8-1 and in Internet. - The main effort during this period was in the Tenth IFToMM World Congress, June 20 - 24, 1999 in Oulu, Finland. The congress was very successful with 500 persons present. - The IFToMM Ballot regarding changes to Constitutions and By-Laws was sent to member committees. Twenty four answers were got which were all favour for changes. - The Executive Council meeting was informed in Minutes of the 32nd Meeting sent to the members on August 31, 1999. The final Invitation to EC Meeting in Zakopane on July 2, 2000 was sent on December 10, 1999. - SG Tatu Leinonen visited in four member committees in Asia. In January he visited in Tianjin China hosted by Professor Zhang Ce, in February in Taejon Korea hosted by Professor Lee Chong-Won, in March in Hanoi Vietnam hosted by Professor Nguyen Thien Phuc and in April in Ulan Bator Mongolia hosted by professor Ch. Avdai. - Mongolian IFToMM Committee published this year Symbols and Appreviations by replacing French terms in Mongolian language in original in IFToMM Commission A Standards for Terminology (J. of MMT, vol. 26, No 5, 1999). The period June 2000 to May 2001- The Minutes of the 33rd Executive Council Meeting were written and, after approval by the President, distributed together with all appendices to the members of Executive Council, Chairmen of Permanent Commissions, Tehnical Committees and IFToMM Member Committees. - About the decisions of EC were also informed in IFToMM Newsletter Vol 9-1 in Internet.
In June he visited in Kaunas, Lithuania, in July in Warsaw, Poland and in August in Montreal, Canada. The period June 2001 to May 2002- The Minutes of the 34th Executive Council Meeting were written and, after apporval by the President, distributed together with all appendices to the members of Executive Council, Chairmen of Permanent Commissions, Technical Committees and IFToMM Member Committees. - About the decisions of EC were also informed in IFToMM Newsletter Vo10-1 and in Internet. - The Executive Council meeting was informed in Minutes of the 34th Meeting sent to the members on November 20, 2001. The Invitation to EC Meeting in Udine on July 5 - 6, 2002 was sent on January 23, 2002. - SG Tatu Leinonen visited in October, 2001 in Minsk where the member committee of Belarus was a host. - SG Tatu Leinonen has been a member of program or scientific steering committee in the following conferences or symposiums: 1. The 11th World Congress of IFToMM 2. IFToMM Reliability Symposium October, 16 - 17, 2001 in Minsk, Belarus 3. Vibroengineering -2001, October 15 - 16, 2001 in Kaunas, Lithuania
The period June 2002 to May 2003- The Minutes of the 35th Executive Council Meeting were written and, after approval by the President, distributed together with all appendices to the members of Executive Council, Chairmen of Permanent Commissions, Technical Committees and IFToMM Member Committees. - About the decisions of EC were also informed in IFToMM Newsletter Vol11-1 and in Internet.
1. The 11th World Congress of IFToMM 2. MuSME 2002, September 12 - 15, 2002 in Mexico City, Mexico 3. International Conference “Vibroengineering -2002”, October 18 - 19, 2002, Kaunas, Lithuania 4. OST-Symposium, June 5 - 6, 2003 in Oulu, Finland
President K. J. Waldron 24 Vice-President Tian Huang 25 SG. M. Ceccarelli 25 Treasurer J. Rooney 25
K. Kedzior 25 C.S. López-Cajun 25 H. Miura 24 J. Travelyan 25 Ion Visa 1 25 IFToMM Member Committees returned the ballot until October 5, 2003. The prosentage of voting was 55,56 %. Tatu Leinonen (Secretary General of IFToMM ) APPENDIX n.6: Report of Marco Ceccarelli (Secretary General 2004-2007) REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY January – March 2004 1- PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY After the results of the postal ballot for the election of the new IFToMM Executive Council, prof Ceccarelli has carried out the following activity: October 2003 – visit in Bucharest and meeting with the Chair of IFToMM Romania Prof. Paun Antonescu and the new elected member of EC dr. Theodor Ionescu November 2003 – visit in Paris and meeting with the Past IFToMM Vice-President, prof JeanClaude Guinot; visit of UNI, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria de Lima and promotion of IFToMM to get a letter for candidature of Perù IFToMM membership; meeting with prof Manfred Husty, Chair of IFToMM Austria, Dr Robert Bicker, Chair of IFToMM UK, and prof. Joao Carlos Carvalho, Chair of IFToMM Brazil. December 2003 – visit in Ciudad de Mexico and meeting with the Chair of IFToMM Mexico and new elected member of EC, Prof.Carlos Lopez-Cajùn; meeting with the President of the Mexican Association for Mechanical Engineering. During those meetings, discussions and opinion exchanges have been carried out in order to outline the future of IFToMM activity. Since December 2003 prof Ceccarelli has started e-mail contacts with all IFToMM officers, namely the Chairs of IFToMM members, the Chairs of TCs and PCs, the Chairs of GA Commissions, the Editors of IFToMM journals, and the members of the Executive Council, also with the aim to update the list of addresses and facilitate contacts and information exchanges. In agreement with the task given the EC at the 2003 meeting, prof Ceccarelli has contacted several persons all around the world for the position of Chairman of the PC for Education with the aim to revitalize that PC. 2- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES Through the e-mail contacts, prof Ceccarelli has stimulated opinion exchange and information mainly on the three subjects: 1- cultural ownership of IFToMM Journals 2 - procedure of appointment of the Editors and Editorial Boards of the IFToMM Journals 3 - updating the appointment of the current Editors and Editorial boards of the four current issued IFToMM Journals. At the moment there are four IFToMM journals, namely MECHANISM AND MACHINE THEORY, JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS, JOURNAL OF GEARING AND TRANSMISSIONS, ELECTRONIC JOURNAL ON COMPUTATIONAL KINEMATICS. The last two journals are journals of the TC for Gearing and TC for Computational Kinematics, respectively. Prof Ceccarelli has exchanged opinion and work plans with the President of IFToMM prof Waldron for a suitable programming of the next meetings of EC and GA, and future activity of IFToMM. Prof Ceccarelli has also prepared an issue of IFToMM Constitution with additional information regarding with aspects of history and characterization of IFToMM (Enclosure n.1). This issue has been circulated by e-mail and it will be distributed the meeting of EC and GA. He also advised some changes in the Constitution (Enclosure n.2) that has been discussed by the IFToMM officers by e-mail. He has prepared preliminary information for the meeting of EC and GA by collecting information from IFToMM Officers regarding the points of the Agendas. In order to facilitate information and give a common frame, he has prepared and suggested the use of forms for the reports of PCS and TCs (Enclosure n.3), a form for nominations of representative of IFToMM Members in the PCs and Tcs, (Enclosure n.5), and a form for the candidature of hosting the IFToMM world congress 2007 (Enclosure n.4). These forms have been discussed with few IFToMM officers only, before to send them by e-mail, since there has not been time and opportunity to discuss the format of them in a collegial way. Hopefully the forms will be revised at the meeting of EC.
In January 2004 prof Ceccarelli has met prof Manfred Husty, Chair of IFToMM Austria, and prof Karl Wolhart at University of Graz. In February 2004 in Madrid, he has visited prof Vicente Dias, President of the Spanish Association of Mechanical Engineering, and prof Emilio Bautista and they have discussed the possibility to link IFToMM with FeIBIM and also some projects to reinvigorate the activity of Spain IFToMM member. During 2004, Prof Ceccarelli will receive several colleagues at LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics for technical visits and he will take advantage of these visits to have short meeting with opinion exchange and planning of activity. He will be available also for visiting IFToMM officers also with the aim to have personal contacts and receive information for future plans of IFToMM activity.
Prof Ceccarelli has been invited to some conference events for the 2004 (in Germany, Czech Republic, Spain) with the aim to represent IFToMM at those events, by taking advantage of his participation for technical presentations. 6- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES Prof Ceccarelli, in his capacity of IFToMM Secretary-General, will plan activity in directing discussion and opinion exchange, preferably by e-mail, on the many aspects of IFToMM activity that will be pointed out by situations and/or by IFToMM officers. He also will help circulation information on IFToMM activity. He will prepare and publish the minutes of the meeting of the IFToMM Executive Council. He will be also available for help for the minutes of the General Assembly. He will send copies of those minutes to the IFToMM officers and IFToMM archive too. Date: 18 February 2004 Prof. Marco Ceccarelli, Email: ceccarelli@unicas.it ENCLOSURE N.1 – IFToMM Constitution and ByLaws with additional information for General assembly 2004 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION for General Assembly in 2004 (See Enclosed Constitution and ByLaws 199 with additional information for GA 2004) ENCLOSURE N.2 – Proposed changes for IFToMM Constitution and ByLaws
PROPOSED BY Prof. Marco Ceccarelli IFToMM Secretary General (2004-2007) LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics DiMSAT, University of Cassino Via Di Biasio 43 - 03043 Cassino (Fr), Italy Ph. +39-0776-2993663 fax +39-0776-2993711 e-mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it LARM webpage http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/larmindex.html IFToMM webpage: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/IFTOMM/
PROPOSED CHANGE n.1 Add in Appendix I at the end: Final approval of IFToMM support and/or auspicious will be decided by the Executive Council. MOTIVATION: The activity and congress events of IFToMM Community are under the responsibility of IFToMM Executive Council, as stated in Art. 5.1 of the Constitution. In addition, the auspicious and/or support will be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of Executive Council. PROPOSED CHANGE n.2 Add an item at Art. 3.1 of Statutes: E. Individual associate members: individuals from national or territorial organizations that are IFToMM members. MOTIVATION: The establishment of individual membership will bring more participation of individuals in the IFToMM activity. In addition, the individual membership will contribute to enlarge the IFToMM Community and awareness of it.
Add a point n.1.6 in By-Laws: 1.6 Individual associate members can get benefit of any activity that is organized by IFToMM but they have no dues and no vote in the General Assembly MOTIVATION: The Federation nature of IFToMM will be preserved. The benefits for an individual associate member could be stated as reduced subscription fee for conference events that are supported and/or under auspicious of IFToMM. An additional benefit can be organized in giving reduced subscription fee for IFToMM Journals. PROPOSED CHANGE n.4 Add the text at the end of n.5.1 in By-Laws: The unit of subscription fee for individual associate members in U.S. dollars is determined by the General Assembly. MOTIVATION: The individual membership must be ruled by a subscription fee, that will bring more finance for IFToMM activity.
Add the text in 3.7 in By-Laws: The Chairs of all PC and TC, and Editors of IFToMM journals MOTIVATION: Great visibility of IFToMM activity is achieved by IFToMM journals. The Editors have significant responsibility and positions in the IFToMM Community. Therefore, it is convenient that the Editors will take part at the meeting of the Executive Council to report directly on the Journal activity and to get aware of the policy that is decided at the meeting of Executive Council and at the General Assembly.
Add the text in 3.10 in By-Laws: The editorial activity is run by IFToMM journals, namely Mechanism and Machine Theory (MMT), Journal of Applied Mechanics (JAM), Journal of Gearing and Transmissions (JGT), Electronic Journal on Computational Kinematics (EJCK). The Editors are appointed by Executive Council. An Editor shall not serve no more than two terms consecutively. Associate Editors are nominated by the Editors and are appointed by the Executive Council to serve no more than two terms. The term of office for Editorial Boards of IFToMM Journals is four years, starting two years after January in which the Executive Council takes office. The Editorial Boards is of composed of at least three Associate Editors. MOTIVATION: Since the importance of the IFToMM Journals, it is convenient to treat the Editorial Boards like a Technical Committee. Thus, the establishment of an IFToMM journal will be stated at By-Laws level as an important activity of IFToMM and it is convenient to rule the Editorial Boards like a Technical Committee.
Add Appendix IV with the following text: APPENDIX IV – IFToMM officers over the time With the above-mentioned Tables. MOTIVATION: This information recognizes the persons who have been IFToMM Officers and completes a characterization of IFToMM and its activity PROPOSED CHANGE n.8 Add t Appendix V with the following text: APPENDIX V – IFToMM World Congresses Year Host Country 1965 Varna, Bulgaria 1969 Zakopane, Poland 1971 Kupari, Yugoslavia 1975 NewCastleuponTyne, U.K. 1979 Montreal, Canada 1983 New Delhi, India 1987 Seville, Spain 1991 Prague, Czech Republik 1995 Milan, Italy 1999 Oulu, Finland MOTIVATION: This information keep memory of the IFToMM World Congresses and completes a characterization of IFToMM and its activity PROPOSED CHANGE n.9 Add Appendix VI with the following text: APPENDIX VI – Subscription fee VI.1 Subscription fee for IFToMM membership of national or territorial organizations Amount that has been approved by the last IFToMM General Assembly in 1999: 250 U.S. $ VI.2 Subscription fee for IFToMM membership of for individual associate members Amount that has been approved by the last IFToMM General Assembly in 2003: ???? U.S. $ MOTIVATION: The individual membership must be ruled by a subscription fee, that will bring more finance for IFToMM activity. The quote should be at a low level like for example 30 U.S. $ per year. PROPOSED CHANGE n.10 Add Appendix VII with the following text: APPENDIX VII- IFToMM Honours and Awards VII.1 Recipients Living Honorary Members of IFToMM F.R.E. Crossley (USA) F. Freudenstein (USA) K.V. Frolov(Russia) Ishlinski (Russia) Manaval (Spain) J. Oderfeld (Poland) T. Pantelic (Yugoslavia) J. Phillips (Australia) Tondl (Czech Republic) B. Roth (USA) Past recipients of the IFToMM Dedicated Service Awards are: Prof. Karl Wohlhart (Austria), 1999 Prof. P. A. Lebedev (Russia), 1999 Prof. G. Bogelsack (Germany), 1999 Prof. L. Pust (Czech Republik), 1999 Past recipients of the IFToMM the award of Merit are: There are currently no past recipients since it was established in 2002. VII.2 Manual for nominee procedure To be proposed by the Commission for Awards and Honours MOTIVATION: This information recognizes main IFToMM personalities and completes a characterization of IFToMM and its activity PROPOSED CHANGE n.11 Add Appendix VIII with the following text: APPENDIX VIII – Honour Roll of Donators of IFToMM Year/name/ content of donation No entry up to 1999 MOTIVATION: This information recognizes the donators of IFToMM.
Add Appendix IX with the following text: APPENDIX IX – Logo of IFToMM in blue colour
MOTIVATION: This information states the official logo of IFToMM.
Add Appendix X with the following text: APPENDIX X – The IFToMM Song The following text has been written during the Foundation in 1969 
MOTIVATION: This information gives the text of the official song as it has been approved during the Foundation Acts of IFToMM in 1969. Cassino, January 7, 2004 Marco Ceccarelli ENCLOSURE N.3 – Form for the reports of PCs and TCs
……….. name ……………………. Webpage address…………………. REPORT OF ANNUAL ACTIVITY July 2003 – March 2004 1- MEMBERSHIP CHANGES New members have been nominated. The list of the members (at least five persons according to ByLaws n.3.8 is in the Enclosure n.1 of the attached Report. 2- DISCUSSION OF RECENT ACTIVITIES …… write information 3- MEETINGS AND VISITS …… write information 4-RESEARCH JOINT COLLABORATIONS AND EXCHANGES …… write information 5- CONFERENCE EVENTS …… write information 6- FUTURE PLANNED ACTIVITIES …… write main plans 7- BUDGET: 2004 REPORT AND REQUEST FOR 2005 …… write main plans 8- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION …… write information The above information are reported in detail in the enclosed Annual PC/TC Report, and will be posted on the PC/TC webpage. Signature of Chair…………………….. Date: ……………. Name, address, and e-mail of the Chair RECOMMENDATION: please complete this report form in one page only. RECOMMENDATION: please design a PC/TC logo which has a similar form to the one shown above on the left corner. ENCLOSURE n.1: The list of the members Please write in two columns like in this example name
address NATION in capital letters Phone and Fax email: webpage SAMPLE: prof. Marco Ceccarelli LARM: Laboratorio di Robotica e Meccatronica DiMSAT – Università di Cassino Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr), ITALY
Phone +39-0776-2993663 o 2993665 Fax +39-0776-2993711 email: ceccarelli@unicas.it http://webuser.unicas.it/weblarm/larmindex.htm ENCLOSURE N.4 – Table for nomination of representatives of IFToMM member in PCs, TCs, and GA-Cs NOMINEES FOR REPRESENTATIVES OF NATIONAL ORGANIZATION IFToMM MMBERS (name)…………………………. IN THE IFToMM COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES Table B1: IFToMM Permanent Commissions for term 2002-2005
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