Undergraduate BE Board:Agendas - 1/31/11 Agenda

BE UG Board Meeting
1-31-11
BE UG Lounge (56-046)
7pm

BEUB Transition Meeting

Mission:

• To represent the undergraduate's interests to the BE faculty
• To create a community of students within the major
• To organize social and Academic Events for BE undergrads
• To identify and disseminate resources for choosing courses, finding UROPs, and learning about life (careers/grad school/med school) after MIT

General Introduction:

1. Wiki: http://openwetware.org/wiki/Undergraduate_BE_Board
2. Frequencies of meeting: Usually twice a month (doodle for time/space)
3. President: Write up agenda on wiki, run meeting
4. Secretary: Take minutes on wiki
5. Treasurer: Meet with Cathy Green to go over current funds, set up budget
6. VP: Helps president with day-to-day activities, in charge of the BE FPOP
7. BE lists: besb-11, besb-12, besb-13, besb-14 (Cathy will approve messages)
8. Our mailing lists:
   • busybeboard@mit.edu - all course 20's who wish to be updated about BEUB
   • busybeboard-ug-exec@Mit.edu - all undergrad exec members
   • busybeboard-exec@Mit.edu - Exec + faculty sponsors
   • Gmail account: busybeboard@gmail.com
9. Lounge
   • in charge of ordering things for the lounge, get requests from students
   • Office Combo
10. Be Admin events
    • help out Scott, Natalie at info sessions during registration
    • Activities Midway for Orientation and CPW
11. Contact Scott Manalis, Linda Griffith, and Natalie Kuldell to introduce yourselves

Events

1. Associate Advising
   • Get a list of Advisors from Cathy Greene
   • Recruit Juniors to volunteer to be AA's
   • Match them up and make sure people get reimbursed, etc.
2. Study breaks (normally each class gets one after some bug project/test); should be 1 per class per semester at least
   • Also, we have been getting requests for more mixers between classes, just fyi
3. BE Stuff
   • tshirts - I think we still have a lot
   • mugs - we are out
   • any other ideas that you want to have stuff for (pens, sweat pants, travel mugs, flip flops)
4. Grad School Panel (April)
   • Get a panel of BE grad students and 2010 seniors who just finished
   • grad contract Bryan Owens (Anne will know who to contact)
5. Med School Panel
   • Joint with BE-BMES last year
   • Talk with Professor Griffith to get ideas
6. Open house event for Freshmen
   • Joint with BE-BMES last year
   • get faculty from similar majors (20, 10, 7, 5, 3) to discuss the differences
   • should be done before freshmen declare majors
7. Goodbye Dinner for Seniors in May (Kevin can take care of this if necessary)
8. Curriculum Meetings
   • Contact Scott Manalis about when these will be held and if the BEUB can do anything to help
9. BE FPOP
   • Ask Sivakami if you guys need help
   • Recruit counselors EARLY
   • This MUST happen this year. Last year meant a 2-year commitment
10. Faculty Grad School Talk
    • Usually Scott Manalis leads this talk in the spring
    • More of timing/financials of grad school
11. Internship Information Session
    • Talk with Dan Darling about acquiring an internship
12. Elections: you know how this works