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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear INES: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I hope this note finds you well, if busy with the coming end of the year. Please take a five minutes to complete our short but important survey (so far we only have 7 responses) and renew your membership for
2023.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">All the best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Jessica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.jessicamsmith.net/">Jessica M. Smith</a> (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Professor, <a href="https://www.mines.edu/eds/">Engineering, Design, and Society Department</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Director, <a href="https://humanitarian.mines.edu/mshes/">Humanitarian Engineering and Science Graduate Program
</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Colorado School of Mines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sign up for office hours using
<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Otg1EzwUeQi_GqjGF5KKpMwiknojdHhwY7tr-3kiIg/edit?usp=sharing">
this link</a>. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">From: </span></b><span style="color:black">Jessica Smith <jmsmith@mines.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, November 14, 2022 at 8:22 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"announce@lists.inesweb.org" <announce@lists.inesweb.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>INES updates - leadership change, membership survey, and request for renewals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;color:black">INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR ENGINEERING STUDIES</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black">Jessica M. Smith, Chair; Caitlin Wylie, Vice Chair; Konstantinos Konstantis, Secretar; Jonah Bea-Taylor, Treasurer</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">14 November 2022</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear INES community:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Our thoughts are with our friends and colleagues at UVA as they cope with the tragic loss of life on grounds, and will remain with them as they support their colleagues and students in the coming
days, weeks, months, and years. The university’s Department of Engineering and Society has been a crucial node of our network and inspiration for many of us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">As we approach the end of the calendar year, I’m writing with important INES leadership updates and two requests - one for membership renewals and one for your responses to a brief survey to help
start the future visioning process for INES and <i>Engineering Studies</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b>Change in leadership<o:p></o:p></b></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It’s been an honor to serve as your INES chair for the past year and as Vice Chair working with Astushi Akera for the previous two. I’ll be stepping down at the end of December 2022 in order to
step into the Editor-in-Chief role of our journal <i>Engineering Studies</i>. I adore scholarly publishing and am thrilled for the opportunity to build on what Gary Downey and Cyrus Mody have built for our intellectual community. Please look for upcoming announcements
and opportunities to plan for the journal’s next stages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I’m thrilled to announce that
<a href="https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~bjesiek/"><b><span style="color:#1155CC">Brent Jesiek (Purdue)</span></b></a><b>
</b>will be stepping in as chair. If you know our network, you know that Brent has been a key figure in its development. He’s been serving as our webmaster for as long as I’ve been familiar with the network and does a lot of work behind the scenes to keep the
membership enrollments and listservs going. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Please join me in thanking Brent, Cyrus and Atsushi for all their contributions to this network!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<b>Future visioning for INES and <i>Engineering Studies </i>– brief survey<o:p></o:p></b></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The leadership team is eager for your input as we imagine the future of INES,
<i>Engineering Studies</i>, and the relationship between the two. Please help us plan by taking
<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaW1Ia2AFJ9Ep8rlZy4m0A_r8Kg7fWozWi3HWwnAi0Bw4dow/viewform?usp=sf_link">
<span style="color:#1155CC">this brief survey</span></a>. We’ll also be looking forward to meet-ups at our conferences and a potential hybrid event in the spring for us to plan together.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3;vertical-align:baseline">
<b>Please, please, please renew your membership!<o:p></o:p></b></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We rely on membership to support both the network and the
<i>Engineering Studies </i>journal. Please renew your membership for 2023 now by <a href="https://inesweb.org/join">
visiting our website</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I’ll be renewing at a supporting rate. As you may recall, we instituted different rates to support our membership and programming in a more just way:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Regular Rate</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">(US $60)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">For professionals, INES membership includes a one-year subscription to
<i>Engineering Studies</i> at the discounted, at-cost rate of US $45 (versus the normal individual rate that can be four times this amount), as well as a US $15 annual fee to cover INES’ operating expenses related to publishing, web hosting, and member services.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Discounted Rate</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">(US $10-$45)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">For students, retirees, those on reduced income, and scholars from non-OECD countries, join or renew on a sliding scale. The at-cost rate of $45 includes a one-year subscription to
<i>Engineering Studies</i>. The below-cost rate of $25 includes the journal pending availability of support from supporting/sponsoring members. The organization can also be joined without the journal subscription on a self-assessed, sliding scale of $10, $15,
or $20.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Supporting ($100) or Sponsoring Member ($175)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#3B3B3B">Those wishing to step up their support for INES can join at the Supporting ($100) or Sponsoring levels ($175), each of which includes a one-year subscription to
<i>Engineering Studies</i>. The additional resources provided by Supporting and Sponsoring members helps expand the reach and impact of INES, including by subsidizing journal subscriptions for those who join the organization at the discounted membership rate.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Take care,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jessica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://www.jessicamsmith.net/">Jessica M. Smith</a> (she/her/hers)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Professor, <a href="https://www.mines.edu/eds/">Engineering, Design, and Society Department</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Director, <a href="https://humanitarian.mines.edu/mshes/">Humanitarian Engineering and Science Graduate Program
</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Colorado School of Mines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Sign up for office hours using
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