Fundamentals Outreach Subcommittee (FOS):

Mission: 

To promote outreach related to resource recovery fundamentals across the industry.

Goals:
• Provide opportunities through multiple media and engagement platforms for students, operations and maintenance staff, young engineers, experienced engineers, and administration and management staff to learn or relearn resource recovery fundamentals.
• Create fact sheets to disseminate fundamental information and provide an avenue for committee members to gain experience in developing technical content.
• Collaborate with other WEF committees in the creation of factsheets, workshops, webcasts, and other committee activities.
• Provide pathways for young professionals to collaborate with experienced professionals in all committee activities, thus facilitating long-term integration into the broader MRRDC and WEF community.

Recent Past and On-going Activities:

• WEFTEC 2018: led Mobile Session.
• WEFTEC 2019: Submitted proposal for Solids Stabilization Workshop.
• Factsheet development for Sanitary Sewer Lift Station, Pump Selection Guide, and Membranes.

 Planned Deliverables/Actions for 2018 - 2019: 

• WEFTEC 2019: Lead a mobile session and a workshop.
• WEFTEC 2020: Complete proposal for a workshop.
• Factsheets: Finalize/publish those in-progress and initiate new factsheets.
• Conduct quarterly subcommittee update calls.
• Notify subcommittee members of volunteer opportunities.

 Leading Edge Outreach Subcommittee (LEOS):

Mission: 

LEOS identifies and develops programming focused on the education of leading edge practices in resource recovery design technologies; this programming involves facilitating the compilation and dissemination of technical information developed from within the activities of the MRRDC at large to the broader WEF membership in collaboration with WEF staff.

 Goals:

• Disseminate WEF description of leading edge technologies.
• Establish liaisons with other relevant groups (MRRDC Work Groups, LIFT, WE&RF and WEF Research & Innovation Committee, IWA Leading Edge Technology Conference).
• Identify ways to communicate with WEF members about leading edge technologies.
• Identify leading edge technologies and organize them by work groups.
• Identify innovative technology abstracts during WEFTEC submission.
• Develop and implement a topic tracking tool.

 Past, Current, and Future Activities:

• Collaboration with the Water Environment & Technology (WE&T) journal staff to identify pertinent topics related to leading edge/innovative technology, and prepare papers, such as for advanced primary treatment/primary filtration, for publication in WE&T.
• Collaboration with LIFT to facilitate achievement of common objectives.
• Identification of leading edge/innovative technologies, such as advanced primary treatment/carbon diversion, having potential design criteria issues, and development of informational fact sheets.
• Convene group conference meetings every two months.
• Prepare annual collaboration report with WE&T and LIFT.

Publications Subcommittee:

Mission: to coordinate the development and review of all design‐related technical publication materials through active involvement with WEF's Technical Practice Committee; the Chair serves as liaison to the TPC.

Program Symposia Subcommittee:

Mission: To arrange and manage the WEFTEC technical program; the Subcommittee Chair serves on the WEF Program Committee

Workshops Subcommittee:

Mission: To review and sponsor pre-conference workshops for WEFTEC; the Subcommittee Chair serves on the WEF Program Committee's Workshop Review Group

Nominating Subcommittee:

Mission: To assist the MRRDC in soliciting and supporting recommendations for various committee and sub-committee positions based on an individual’s qualifications and interests.