1.NAME, DEFINITION, AND OBJECTIVE

1.1 Name. This organization (hereinafter referred to as “the Society”) shall be known as the “International Society of Grid Generation.”

1.2 DefInition. Grid (Mesh) Generation is that discipline of applied science and engineering which is devoted to the discretization of fields associated with the computational analysis of scientific and engineering problems encountered in fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, aerospace and mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, geophysics, electromagnetics, semiconductor devices, atmospheric and ocean science, hydrodynamics, solid mechanics, civil engineering related transport phenomena, and other physical field problems involving sets of partial differential equations formulated in a continuum.

1.3 Objective. The objective of the Society shall be to promote, foster, organize, and coordinate various activities concerning grid(mesh) generation. The Society shall serve as a focal point for assimilating the progress and advances realized in grid generation. The Society shall serve as a formal vehicle for overseeing and coordinating conferences, colloquia, symposia, and other technical meetings, and it shall promote research, commercial and academic activities in the general area of grid(mesh) generation.

2. MEMBERSHIP

2.1 Categories of Membership. Membership in the Society shall consist of the following categories: a) Individual Members; b) Student Members; c) Institutional Members; d) Corporate Members.

2.2 IndIvidual Members. Individual membership shall be open to any person engaged in, connected with, or interested in computational field sinmiation and who is a graduate in engineering, science,matbematics, or possesses equivalent qualifications. Individual membership status will be classified as member, associate member or fellow based on membership standing and technical research/service/educational contributions. Status will be approved by the committee of members chosen by the Executive Committee.

2.3 Student Members. Student membership is open to full-time students of engineering, arts science or mathematics who do not hold full-time employment.

2.4 Institutional Membership. This category is open to nonprofit research institutions, technical societies, and university laboratories whose activities include work in computational field simulations.

2.5 Corporate Membership. This category is open to industrial and government organizations.

3. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

3.1 Composition of the Executive Committee. The governing body of the Society shall be the Executive Committee. The membership of the Executive Committee shall consist of no more than 17 Individual Members. The Executive Committee administration shall be provided by its officers, which consist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, a Secretary and Treasurer and no more than twelve Members-at-Large. The members of the Executive Committee shall be chosen so as to represent, as much as possible, the grid generation interests of constituents throughout the globe. The Executive Committee members shall be elected by members of the Society from a slate presented to them. Executive Committee members must have a proven track record in the area of grid generation and should be well known for his/her contributions in grid generation both nationally and internationally.

3.2 Nominations. Each member is eligible to nominate candidates for Executive Committee membership. The Executive Committee shall prepare a slate of such nominees, consisting of no more than twice the available positions, based on these recommendations.

3.3 Voting. Each individual member of the Society shall have one vote in the election of officers of the Executive Committee and in such matters as are to be voted upon that are of broad concern to the Society.Each institutional and corporate member of the Society shall have one vote. The student members shall have no voting power.

3.4 Election of Executive Committee Officers. The President, Vice-Presidents, Secretary and Treasurer, and Members.at-Large shall be elected by a simple majority of the vote of the Membership, such vote to be held within six monthe prior to the period in which these officers shall bold office. The Executive Committee is empowered to set procedures for the election and terms of office as it deems appropriate.

3.5 Duties. The Executive Committee is empowered to establish such committees of the Society as it deems appropriate, to accept and act upon petitions from the Membership, to set membership dues, approve the sites and dates for conferences sponsored by the Society and to establish affiliations with other associations and societies.

4. BYLAWS, VOTING MEMBERS

4.1 Amendments and changes in the Society Bylaws must be approved by a two-thirds majority of voting Members of the Society. Electronic mail ballots can be used to poll the members for votes on issues affecting the Society.

4.2 The Secretary of the Society shall maintain a register of all members in good standing, these being only members who have paid annual dues. Voting members shall be those Individual Members of the Society in good standing.