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### Newsletter ### The latest issue of the newsletter is now available on our website. Current issues of the IEEE Product Safety Engineering newsletters can be found in the society members only section of the web site. Membership in the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society is required to access the newsletters. See the society members only section for access instructions. See <http://www.ieee-pses.org/newsletters.html>. ### ISPCE 2013 ### IEEE Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering 2013 will be in Austin, Texas October 7, 8 and 9, 2013. The call-for-papers is available in the newsletter and our website, see the website for details <http://www.ieee-pses.org>. ### Call for Nominations for Directors-At-Large ### If you are looking to be recognized by your peers and want to make a difference in your profession, consider running for the Product Safety Engineering Society Board of directors. This is a Call for Nominations for election to a position as Director-At-Large IEEE PSES (BoD) for the term of 2014 through 2016. If you know of a good candidate, including yourself, who possesses leadership qualities, can get things done, and is looking for a challenge, please send an Intention to Nominate to a Nominations Committee member listed below and include the bio described below. The Intention should list the candidate s name, contact information and a brief description of their abilities. Directors-At-Large are your representatives to the Board of Directors of IEEE PSES. Terms of office are 3 years and the nominee must be a member of the IEEE and a member of the Society; possess technical and professional stature in the Product Safety Engineering field; have adequate financial resources, time to attend meetings, teleconferences and actively contribute in committee activities. If you are interested in applying for nomination for any of these positions, please contact the Nominations Committee and provide a one-page biographical summary by June 11, 2013. The bio should include the following: A recent photo First paragraph: Name, title, place of employment, educational background Second paragraph: Technical and professional experience Third paragraph: PSES and IEEE service and activities including officer positions, committee membership, etc. Fourth paragraph: Vision for PSES. Your mission as a director. Nominations Committee: - Murlin Marks at murl...@ieee.org, or - Jim Knighten at jim.knigh...@teradata.com, or - Jim Bacher at j.bac...@ieee.org For more details please review the society bylaws on our home page <http://www.ieee-pses.org/> or contact anyone on the nominations committee. ### Prognostics and Health Management ### The 2013 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) will take place in Gaithersburg, MD (Washington DC Metro area) on June 24-27, 2013. Registration is now open. The conference will address the broad range of PHM disciplines and topics including testability, diagnostics, prognostics, and health management across the pertinent disciplines; addressing key technologies at all levels as well as PHM Systems Engineering and Management. Brought to you by the Reliability Society and held on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) campus. Download the flyer for more information or visit <www.phmconf.org>. The Electrical Safety Council will stage its third Product Safety Conference at Church House, London on 16 May 2013 The conference theme - Safety of electrical products a 3600 approach - will address issues of product safety in design, recall effectiveness, and methods and processes to inform best practice to protect consumers, manufacturers, retailers and suppliers. See attached flyer for further details. The theme for the conference UK Market Surveillance overcoming the cut-backs through a combined approach recognizes the need for product safety professionals and stakeholders to actively seek opportunities for working together to help ensure that market surveillance remains effective during these challenging times. Keynote speaker Malcolm Harbour CBE, MEP and Chairman of the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, will introduce a packed agenda covering product recall and traceability, safety in design and communication of risk. With speakers from across the spectrum including regulators, manufacturers, designers and consumer interest groups. Speakers/facilitators confirmed to date include: AMDEA Beko Bosch British Retail Consortium Direct Line Dyson Hogan Lovells International LLP RecallUK Register your interest now or for further information relating to the conference please visit - <http://www.esc.org.uk/product-safety-conference> More Information: Siobhan Doyle <siobhan.do...@esc.org.uk> ### Call for Contributions ### PSES is planning to bring the next issue of its Newsletter in June 2013 and would like to invite news, articles, reports etc. to share amongst the members of PSES all across IEEE. You are requested to contribute. All PSES chapters and TACs are also requested to send reports on the activities/events organized by their respective chapters/TACs. This will help our readers and other IEEE volunteers to appreciate your initiative and understand the benefits of organizing such activities. 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