Final Version: 1/29/09

Scientific and Technical Employee Development (STED)
Conference Call September 25, 2008

Committee members:

Meeting Introduction:

• Bob Hainly opened the teleconference and reviewed the agenda. No additions were suggested.

Comments on the minutes from the March 2008 meeting:

• No comments were received on the July and August 2008 meeting minutes.
• ACTION ITEM – Bob will finalize the July and August 2008 meeting minutes and post them to the web page after a 4-week comment period.

Review of the Action Items Log:

• 7/31 ACTION ITEM – Bob will look into recovering web page activity or establishing a system to do so in the future.
  • Action Item progress – Alan will talk to Tj about gathering STED web page visit statistics
• 8/21 ACTION ITEM – Committee to review video list and provide suggestions to Mike.
• Action Item progress – Bob will send reminder to STED members (completed 10/10)
• 8/21 ACTION ITEM – Steve will forward memo to Matt Larsen for WRD distribution
• Action Item progress – Steve sent reminder to Larsen (9/25); memo distributed 9/26

External Communication

• Virginia sent an e-mail to WSC Directors to determine their knowledge of STED – only 3 of 26 knew of STED and most could not find our web page
• If that is the case overall, we need to step up our advertising efforts.
• ACTION ITEM – When STED is ready to roll-out new web page, Bob will draft announcement from Larsen that will include information about STED and activities

HR Initiative Funding Status

• SW Procedures team has allocated all funding. Product to be released in stages in FY2009.
• No contracts were needed. Most of funding went to WSC staff.
• Remainder to OSW for future-year use.
• QW Principles development is proceeding with HRI funding. Planned delivery is October 2009.
• Franceska is continuing her work on the product.
• $10K contract let to Roger Lee for continued assistance.
• $10K from OED to developer is planned.
• Alan will propose course-development tasks for an additional $100K of HRI funding in FY2009.

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Video Selections

• Steve mentioned that OSW has already converted Flow in Alluvial Channels and Debris Flow Dynamics to DVD format. Steve will provide files/CDs to Alan.
• Committee members are asked to review list and provide recommendations to Alan.
• No additional funding is needed for these conversions. OED will use existing resources.

STED Web Page Format

• Discussion continued about internal or external access to new STED web page.
• The general consensus of this group was to keep committee information as internal only and training opportunities open to public.
• We will need to follow Senior Staff decision about serving TEL courses to the public.
• OED staff (Tj) would prefer that all contents were kept as internal only.
• Is it feasible to and can we split the content?
• Will courses also be served through DOI LEARN?
• Where will support for models be housed—internal or external? Can a TEL course be developed to introduce a model?
• DECISION – Although this topic has been discussed during July, August, and September calls, it has only involved small and different groups. We will attempt to discuss this issue and develop a consensus at the next fully populated conference call.

Wrap-up

• Draft minutes of this meeting will be distributed for committee review.
• Bob will continue to finalize minutes for posting to web page, update action item log, and email to STED.

The next conference call is scheduled for Thursday, November 20 at 1:00 pm EST.

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