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APIP Board of Directors Election

The APIP Board of Directors will schedule an election to be held at the APIP Fall 2009 General Meeting, date to be announced on this website.

In accordance with the current APIP charter, three Board members must be company owners and three Board members must be individual inspection professionals. The nomination form and instructions are posted on this website

The Board meets monthly 10 months of the year. These meetings have been held at a La Porte, TX member company business board room. The Board meetings are usually scheduled from around 5:30-8:30 PM, with follow up actions carried out via email and phone.

Currently, the primary activities of the Board include planning two annual general meetings, with guest speakers and scholarship awards and one or two annual golf fund raising tournaments.

In addition, the APIP Board provides booths at special trade shows and conferences, e.g. the API Summit, and sends volunteer representatives to attend meetings of select associations and trade events.

Board members manage this website and produce various flyers and announcements.

The APIP is a non-profit association, all Board and Committee members are non-compensated volunteers.

APIP Committees always welcome participation in areas of personal, professional interest to individuals. Contact a member of the Board or come to a Board meeting to find out more. Board meeting schedules are posted on this website

EXAMINATION PREPARATORY COURSES

AWS-CWI (American Welding Society – Certified Welding Inspector)

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APIP Texas Training Consortium (ATTC)

The 36 free Testing, Inspection and Personal Productivity training classes held for the employees of 51 ATTC member companies for the time period of March 2007 to March 2009 at San Jacinto College has been concluded.

The $3M Texas Workforce Commission Grant that paid for this training has been fully utilized and Texas business now has around 1250 new and upgraded employees as a result. Additionally, many of these individuals have a new and promising future in a dynamic, high potential, in-demand career.

A full report of the training program experience, lessons learned, future plans and recommendations and information on new training grants will be presented at the ASNT's International Chemical and Petroleum Industry Inspection Technology (ICPIIT) XI Topical Conference on June 4th. Details are available at this website: https://www.asnt.org/events/conferences/icpiit/icpiit.htm

The Board of the APIP want to express our sincere appreciation to the Texas Workforce Commission, to San Jacinto College and to the Consortium member companies for their commitment and support in the organization and successful fulfillment of this first of a kind program in Texas. It serves as a model to create opportunity and to meet future needs through the collaboration of Texas government, business and academia.

Bill Hatler
Chairman

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BIC Magazine Feature on the APIP

The Business and Industry Connection (BIC) publication graciously donated a feature article to the APIP in their April 2009 publication.

The APIP feature, on page 19 of BIC magazine is entitled " Plant Inspection Association improves, enhances inspection industry"

The Board of Directors of APIP want to convey our appreciation to BIC for supporting our non-profit association of business owners and individual members.

Posted: Sunday, April 19, 2009

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Thanks to San Jacinto College's 51 Partners

A Letter of Thanks To San Jacinto College’s 51 Company
Partners on the Texas Workforce Commission
Skills Development Fund “APIP” Grant Project

On behalf of San Jacinto College, I want to express my sincere appreciation for the collaboration, cooperation, and sustained participation by our company partners in concluding our initial training project under the APIP Grant. Our allocation of just over $3 million was successfully utilized to train more than 1,200 individuals in over 30 courses for a total of approximately 2,900 enrollments. That represents a training value of $2,500 per trainee. Our project began in April 2007 and concluded March 31, 2009. We are in a 60-day close-out process to finalize all data and reports.

The college has been asked by several of our company partners about a subsequent application to the TWC to request additional funds to meet continuing training needs within this industry group. That is certainly a future possibility. Please be assured that should such another initiative begin, we will be in contact with each of our 51 company contacts and other industry representatives to provide relevant information about participation in a second application.

Thank you for your efforts and support of this project. I look forward to continuing our relationship in future endeavors.

Regards

Gayle Gallaher, San Jacinto College

Posted: Friday, April 03, 2009

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2009 Events: API, ASNT, AWS, ASME, NACE

API
The 2009 Inspector Summit Jan 27-30th, Galveston, Tx. was a success.
Key subjects from this Summit that will be posted in the Blogs section of this website in detail include:
NEP (National Emphasis Programs) OSHA Refinery and Chemical Plant Audits. Revised API RP for PMI. Training/Certification and OSHA audits.
Forecast trends for API Inspectors supply and demand.


ASNT
Apr 6th, Golf Outing, Deerwood Golf Club
Apr 8th, Vendors Night & Job Fair @ Brady's Landing
May 2nd, Spring Educational Seminar
May 13th, ASNT President Message, state of the ASNT Q&A
Jun 3-6th, ICPIIT-XI Conference & Show, Houston (www.asnt.org)

AWS (www.awshouston.org)
Mar 18th, Section Meeting
March/April Plant Tour, Spring Educational
Apr 15th, Section Meeting
April/May Golf Tournament
May 20th, Section Meeting, Scholarships
May 29-30th, AWS District 18 Conference

ASME
Apr 23rd, ASME Trade Show , Pasadena (www.asmesouthtexas.org)

NACE
Mar 22-26th, NACE Corrosion Conference & Expo, Atlanta, GA (www.nace.org)

Posted: Friday, March 27, 2009

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