1. To provide a formal organizational structure to promote, encourage, and facilitate ASEE activities pertaining to professional and technical education.
2. To provide a forum for the discussion of problems and exchange of information pertaining to professional and technical education related to education and technology.
3. To provide programs at meetings.
4. To establish and maintain liaison with other organizations concerned with professional and technical education.

Chair: 3 years
Assistant Chair: 1 year renewable

1. Chair

   The Chair shall have the administrative responsibility for the Council and shall be responsible for all meetings. He/She shall serve as Chair of the Council Board and shall serve as a member of the Board of Directors of ASEE. She/he shall, with the advice of the Council Board, appoint such committees as are necessary for the adequate administration and operation of the Council. The Chair of the Council shall serve as an ex-officio member of all committees.

   He/She shall supply to the officers of the Council up-to-date copies of these bylaws with all amendments, within sixty (60) days following the annual business meeting of the Council, provided that changes were made.

   The Chair/Secretary shall provide an annual report of council activities to the ASEE Board of Directors.

2. Assistant Chair

   The PIC III Chair may appoint an Assistant Chair from among the members in good standing of any division within PIC III who have completed at least one year as a division officer within PIC III. 

   The duties of the Assistant Chair are as follows:

   1. Assist as directed by the PIC III Chair in the administration of PIC III,
   2. Attend division meetings within PIC III as the PIC III Chair’s representative upon request of the PIC III Chair,
   3. Chair the selection process for PIC-level awards, including but not limited to the PIC III Best Paper Award,
   4. Serve as a member of the PIC III Council Board, and
   5. Other duties as authorized by the Constitution and Bylaws of ASEE.

No person having served as Assistant Chair is eligible to become the immediate successor of any incumbent PIC III Chair who appointed him/her. 

The Assistant Chair may be dismissed from office by the PIC III Chair or by a two-thirds majority vote of the PIC III Council Board in any meeting authorized by Article VI of these bylaws.  If a petition to dismiss the Assistant Chair is presented to the PIC III Chair from at least five of the division chairs, the PIC III Chair must call a special meeting per Section 3, Article VI, to consider such dismissal.  

1. The Chair of the Council is a National office and will be elected by procedures established by the Board of Directors and Membership of ASEE.
2. Assumption of office by the Chair shall be concurrent with that of officers of ASEE (typically at the close of the ASEE Annual Conference in the year elected).
3. In the event that the Chair is unable to complete his/her term of office, succession will be as established by the Constitution and Bylaws of ASEE.
4. The Assistant Chair may be appointed by the PIC III Chair per Art.III, Sec. 2b.

1. The Council shall have a Council Board whose duty shall be to promote and coordinate the activities of the Divisions and Constituent Committees.
2. The Council Board shall serve as a channel of communication for its members and shall make recommendations on matters of concern to the Board of Directors of ASEE.
3. The Chair shall schedule and arrange for Council Board meetings. It shall administer such other activities as may be desirable for the objectives of the Council.

The Council Board shall be the council officers, the Chairs of the standing committees, and one representative from each Division and Constituent Committee listed as Article II, Section 1, of these bylaws. The Division and Constituent Committee representative shall normally be the Chair or the Chair-elect of each Division or Constituent Committee.

If a representative of a Division or Constituent Committee listed in Article II, Section 1, is unable to serve on the Council Board or attend a Council Board Meeting, the appropriate Division or Constituent Committee shall designate a replacement from among the Officers of the Division or Constituent Committee.