Report from the Communications Committee

We presently have an excellent and versatile membership booth with graphics to use at Conferences. Vern Price and others work the booth, answer questions and sign up members to both IEEE and NPSS very successfully. We look after the booth at my company and arrange the shipping etc.
To help promote NPSS, the brochure was prepared and printed in 2001 and a new one will be printed shortly to be used this year and next. In addition, we produced a single-page leaflet last year for membership promotion. The new brochure and the leaflet are mailed to members and possible NPSS members in the IEEE at membership renewal time. The function of this promotion is to both seek new NPSS members and to ensure that current members are aware of all aspects of our Society. Possible as a result of this, our membership is growing at the second fastest rate of any IEEE Technical Society.
As a new initiative this year, we will be producing a leaflet focussing on engineers and scientists in Particle Accelerator Science and Technology. This will be used at the PAC this year to help recruiting in the field where there are relatively few NPSS members but very high meeting attendance.
The web site has been updated as previously reported and we are seeking input to expand the content. There are many possibilities for adding useful information aimed at engineers as well as students and members of the public. As many of us work on Government projects or in Universities, I believe that it is appropriate that we describe our fields and their relevance.
My thanks go to all the members of the Committee and especially Dick Kouzes and Ken Connor who maintain the web site and Vern Price who works so hard on the membership booth at meetings and steers the resulting membership forms through the IEEE.
Peter Clout, Chair of the NPSS Communications Committee, can be reached at Vista Control Systems, Inc., 176 Central Park Square, Los Alamos, NM 87544-4031; Phone +1 505 662-2484; Fax: +1 505 662-3956; E-mail: clout@vista-control.com