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Elections for the 2010 BE Undergraduate Board will be held during the end of semester study break on '''TBD'''.
Elections for the 2013 BE Undergraduate Board are '''today''' at the end of semester study break on '''Wednesday December 12th'''.


Candidate platforms are due on '''Sunday, December 5th'''.  Platforms should be submitted to '''Kevin Hu''' at '''khu@mit.edu'''.  After submission, platforms will be posted on the page.


==Positions==
==Positions==


The time commitment for all of the positions is about three hours a week.  Responsibilities mainly include attending board meetings, sending emails to students and faculty, and attending events.


 
* '''President''':
'''President''':
Faculty go-to person, runs the board and bi-weekly BE meetings
Faculty go-to person, runs the board and bi-weekly BE meetings




'''Vice President''':
''Katie Bodner & Nikki Neibloom''
A little of everything, FPOP coordinator
 
 
'''Secretary''':
Sends out emails, takes minutes, reserves rooms for meetings
 
 
'''Treasurer''':
Orders food, budgets events, handles t-shirts, all other money situations
 
 
==Platforms==


'''President'''
Nikki Neibloom and Katie Bodner are running for 2014-2015 BEUB Co-Presidents. As juniors this past year, Nikki has performed as Vice President of BEUB and Katie has been the Secretary. We are both engrossed in course 20 and want to be even more involved in BEUB in the coming semester. One of our goals as presidents is to highlight opportunities for course 20 students after graduation other than going to grad school. We also want to help rising seniors find grad schools and connect them with current graduate students. More importantly, we believe that course 20 really needs some t-shirts and a whole lot more cheesecake. Thanks!
''Yuan Zhao '12''


*Hello, everyone! My name is Yuan Zhao and I am running for President of the
BEUB. I believe that my contributions to the BEUB would be valuable given my
experience running key positions in a number of clubs here at MIT.
Presently, I am the Director of Publicity for MIT AAA and am on the UA
Events Committee, which organizes MIT's annual Fall and Spring Festivals. I
am also a member of MacGregor HouseComm and am the current social chair for
the dorm, as well as the REX chair for the previous year, having coordinated
all of the freshman orientation events. Lastly, I am an associate advisor in
course 20 and am the only candidate that has experience as a counselor for
the BE FPOP, which was inaugurated this last fall. In addition to my
background, I am a fun and easy-going individual (or so I like to think),
and can work to get things done efficiently and on budget. *


*Qualifications, however, are only one half of the requirements to be a
''Edgar Aranda-Michel & Kevin Hu''
successful exec. The second half, which is no less important, is the vision
for the future of our wonderful major and commitment to that vision.
Although Course 20 has firmly earned its place among MIT's majors, I believe
there are still many ways to improve cohesion within our major while
advancing it in the Institute. As exec, I would encourage bonding events
that would allow underclassmen to meet and hang out with upperclassmen, as
well as students in their own year. Additionally, I would work to improve
the communication between students and faculty, while better providing
information about the major to prospective students. I am well acquainted
with many members of the faculty, and can leverage social networks developed
from my previous exec positions for the BEUB. *


*I anticipate great things from students in our major and believe that our
Hi! Edgar and Kevin here. We'd like to be your BEUB Co-Presidents. We're both juniors with plenty of experience working with faculty and extensive knowledge about the current curriculum of BE and related majors like Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Computational Biology. Together we will promote changes in the department (especially the curriculum) based upon student feedback and ensure that you can make the most of your time at MIT. To start off, we've already sent out a survey to the current seniors asking for feedback on their experiences in the major. In case that's not enough for you, we'll also be having more of our usual study breaks that we all love. See you there!
commitment and initiative will truly make waves in the MIT community. I'm
very excited and hope to work for you next year as exec. *


*(Oh, and there will be lots of free food for everyone. All the time.)*


'''Vice President'''
* '''Vice President''':
'' Anne Ye '12''
A little of everything, responsible for coordinating FPOP


Hello, Course 20, I'm Anne Ye, and I'm running for vice president of the BE
Undergraduate Board. As secretary this year, I had the opportunity to help out
with organizing several academic and social events to help prospective and
current Course 20 students, an experience that I both greatly enjoyed and
learned a lot from. I would love to have a chance next year to continue my
involvement in the BEUB, and to use the experience that I have gained this past
year to help the BEUB improve even more.


As vice president, I will work to encourage more interaction and discussion
''Deniz Askel''
between students and faculty, whether it be through student/faculty lunches,
faculty panels to share advice and talk about their career paths and research
interests, or other ideas for informative, engaging events that you are
interested in. I am also very excited about the BE FPOP and the Undergraduate
Research Prize. The FPOP was a great success in its first year, and I hope to
be able to take a more active leadership role in further developing the program
for next summer. The research prize is a newly-proposed event scheduled for next
year that I believe is a great way to reward BE students for their hard work,
and I would really enjoy helping to put together this event and to make this
vision come to fruition. Finally, I will work to communicate students?
suggestions and feedback to faculty members, so that Course 20 undergrads can
play an integral role in developing a curriculum and department that best meet
their needs and interests.


I believe I can make a significant contribution to the BEUB and to Course 20
I’m Deniz Aksel, and I would like to be the next Vice President of the BE Undergraduate Board. I find this position to be very important, as it involves organizing the Discover Biological Engineering FPOP; an important resource for the department in terms of getting incoming students excited about the major and expanding the MIT BE community. As someone that has experienced the FPOP from both the incoming freshman and counselor perspectives, I believe I have a clear understanding of what representing our department in a fun and effective way entails. In addition to the FPOP organization, I believe that the VP position has a lot of untapped potential. I would personally like to focus on improving and strengthening the community feeling of our department. I plan on helping organize study breaks with visiting professors to improve faculty-student relations. I will also be very open to other event or improvement suggestions from you. I believe that the VP position entails not only showing incoming freshmen, but also current BE students that Course 20 is the best!
because I am always really interested to hear the ideas and input of other
students, and combined with my own experiences both as a Course 20 student and
in various leadership capacities in the department, I believe I have a good
feel for common questions and suggestions. I am also highly organized and good
at managing time efficiently, and I am good at being proactive in communicating
with professors. I have really loved being part of the BEUB, and I hope I can
contribute to improving its work even more.




''Arvind Thiagarajan '13''
* '''Secretary''':
Takes minutes, adds notes to wiki, reserves rooms for meetings


Biological Engineering Undergraduate Board Platform For The Position Of Vice
President


Biological Engineering, more than any other field at present, offers a rich
''Jennifer Thornton'' 
and diverse atmosphere, one in which people of different academic
backgrounds can find both common ground and a niche for themselves. This is
especially evident at the graduate level, where students from electrical
engineering, physics, math, biology, and other fields come together to work
on interesting problems in biological engineering. At the undergraduate
level, however, the range of students, while still somewhat broad, is much
more focused: the major still primarily attracts those students with biology
backgrounds. Part of the reason for this is the way the classes are
structured, but just as important is the existing community and the
opportunities it offers. It is at this level that the BEUB can exert the
most influence, and it is for this reason that I am running for Vice
President.


In particular, I believe that two things must be done in order to expand and
Hi there! My name is Jennifer Thornton, and I'm a junior running for Secretary of the BE undergraduate board. I’m excited to get involved with the BE board because I want to work to make the Course 20 student body connected, well fed, and in-the-know! In terms of my secretarial skills, I have experience taking minutes for student groups and I love keeping organized notes and getting things done. Also, I’m specifically aiming to redesign and consistently update our BEUB wiki so that it is easy to navigate and full of information on current events and projects for BE undergrads. The board exists to benefit every Course 20 undergrad-as Secretary, I will work tirelessly to make sure that it does. Thank you! ACG CAC GCA AAU AAA UCG :)
strengthen our field. First, we must work to give incoming freshman a really
good overview of the opportunities that BE offers, and second we must work
to integrate BE more closely with the other departments at MIT. The first
goal seems most easily accomplished within the framework of a BE FPOP. The
second goal can be approached by organizing joint parties between
departments or arranging interdisciplinary talks. Both of these are jobs
that are best handled through the office of BEUB Vice President. It is for
this reason that I am running for this office, and these are the things I
intend to do if elected.


Thank you for taking the time to read my platform, and please vote Arvind
Thiagarajan for BEUB Vice President.


''Johnathan Gootenberg '13''
* '''Treasurer''':
Orders food, budgets events, handles merchandise, all other pecuniary needs


My name is Jonathan Gootenberg, and I am running for Vice President of
BEUB primarily to help with the coordination of the Discovering Biological
Engineering FPOP. I feel that there is still some ambiguity surrounding the
differences between the “biology” majors (7,10b, and 20), and I think DBE is
a great way to distinguish 20 and cultivate excitement for biological
engineering. I am currently the Course 20 representative in the Biology
Undergraduate Student Association and have attended a majority of the BEUB
meetings this semester, so I believe that I already have a good grasp of the
responsibilities of the BEUB.


''Jingxun Chen '13''
''Karinna Vivanco''


1. As a part of BE, I feel excited and responsible of helping to our major become better
Hi Course 20!  My name is Karinna Vivanco, and I am running for BEUB treasurer. This past year, I've acted as the BEUB campus representative and have really enjoyed helping to develop communication within the department. I would really like to continue on the board to help plan even more study breaks and events that could connect the department even further.  I know there is so much interest within our major to meet more Course 20s but not as many organized opportunities. I would like to improve upon that with careful event planning to make bonding more practical.  Aside from serving on the board, I've been an active leader on the executive boards of both my dorm and dance community. I believe I have the experience and enthusiasm to help improve our department. Thank you! :)
2. I enjoy working closely with a group of people and making impact on our community together
3. I want to apply the leaderships skills that I learned from being the Vice President of American Red Cross Club in my high school and contribute to our BE community
4. I really want to help build a supportive community in our BE student body through
    a) Helping out the associative advising program, in which upperclassmen mentor lower-classmen in conjunction with their academic adviser
    b) Planning career development events, such as internship/UROP/Grad school panels
    c) Coordinating BE FPOP, which holds professional development workshops and provides current sophomores with internship connections
    d) Holding social event for our BE students, such as study breaks and faculty dinners


'''Secretary'''
''Johnathan Chien '14''


I'm Jonathan Chien, and I'm running for Secretary of the Undergraduate BE
''Hannah Kempton''
Board. I have familiarity with making mailing lists, experience taking
concise minutes, and reserving rooms through VirtualEMS. I'm on the 2014
Class Council, which requires coordinating communication between seven
members and planning large scale events so this position should not be too
much of a challenge for me.


''Nina Jreige '13''
Hey Course 20! My name is Hannah Kempton and I'm a junior running for treasurer of the BE undergraduate board. I'm excited and passionate about course 20--outside of class, I'm a BE associate advisor and I UROP in the Zhang lab in the Broad. I would love to get more involved in the department by combining my two main interests: biological engineering and food! For the past 2 years I have been on the planning board of SWE, where my main responsibility was organizing events for members and (most importantly) ordering food for said events. As a result, I have experience working collaboratively to plan study breaks, budgeting events, dealing with reimbursements, and ordering food from the tastiest restaurants in Cambridge! As your treasurer I promise to plan many delicious study breaks throughout the semester and to work on hopefully getting course 20 tshirts for the department. Thanks! :)


Hi, my name is Nina Jreige, and I am a sophomore majoring in BioEngineering. I am interested in running for secretary for the Biological Engineering Undergraduate Board, and have both experience (I am currently the secretary for the Lebanese Club at MIT) and enthusiasm for the position. As a sophomore, I felt that transitioning from general GIR courses to more focused courses in our major was both an enjoyable and difficult experience. We all shifted from classes containing numerous peers to much smaller classes (containing many people we may not know), making p-setting with friends trickier. In order to alleviate such difficulties, I think it would be beneficial to schedule study/p-set sessions, time periods when you know that various students will be working on specific course 20 p-sets, making it easier to find people to work with.  In addition, I think it would be a good idea to have more course 20 social events (although, admittedly, I do now know how the budget is distributed, so I do not know how feasible this would be). Thus far, the sophomores have only had an ice cream social event scheduled after the first 20.110 exam (I believe, similarly, the junior and senior classes have only had one major social event scheduled). I would like to see more events like this. We are a smaller major compared to course 6 and 2, so I think that movie events or dinner events could be more feasibly organized. 


I am really excited about majoring in BioEngineering, and I would like to channel some of my excitement into the Undergraduate Board. The aforementioned ideas are just some of the things I would try to work on, and I would always be open to suggestions.
* '''Campus Relations'''
Responsible for communicating with the student body, emails, and publicizing events




'''Treasurer'''
''Jennifer Ibanez''
''Sonika Reddy '14''


I think I would be a good treasurer because I am capable of balancing budgets
Throughout my time here at MIT, the BE department has shown me nothing but love. Though the major is no doubt one of the more difficult, I have always found the faculty and student body to be very supportive and accessible to each other. I am running for Campus Representative because I would love to become more involved in the BE community, and I believe having students’ opinions represented in the Board is very important. In high school, I was on several planning committees and also served as student representative in various student-faculty groups.
and I turn things in on time. In high school, I was responsible for the debate
team's pizza fundraiser; ordering pizzas, counting the money at the beginning
and end, and keeping track of profits. I also served a similar role in our
shorter fundraisers. I am organized and responsible ensuring that money will be
paid on time so events can happen on time.

Latest revision as of 20:47, 5 February 2014

Elections for the 2013 BE Undergraduate Board are today at the end of semester study break on Wednesday December 12th.


Positions

  • President:

Faculty go-to person, runs the board and bi-weekly BE meetings


Katie Bodner & Nikki Neibloom

Nikki Neibloom and Katie Bodner are running for 2014-2015 BEUB Co-Presidents. As juniors this past year, Nikki has performed as Vice President of BEUB and Katie has been the Secretary. We are both engrossed in course 20 and want to be even more involved in BEUB in the coming semester. One of our goals as presidents is to highlight opportunities for course 20 students after graduation other than going to grad school. We also want to help rising seniors find grad schools and connect them with current graduate students. More importantly, we believe that course 20 really needs some t-shirts and a whole lot more cheesecake. Thanks!


Edgar Aranda-Michel & Kevin Hu

Hi! Edgar and Kevin here. We'd like to be your BEUB Co-Presidents. We're both juniors with plenty of experience working with faculty and extensive knowledge about the current curriculum of BE and related majors like Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Computational Biology. Together we will promote changes in the department (especially the curriculum) based upon student feedback and ensure that you can make the most of your time at MIT. To start off, we've already sent out a survey to the current seniors asking for feedback on their experiences in the major. In case that's not enough for you, we'll also be having more of our usual study breaks that we all love. See you there!


  • Vice President:

A little of everything, responsible for coordinating FPOP


Deniz Askel

I’m Deniz Aksel, and I would like to be the next Vice President of the BE Undergraduate Board. I find this position to be very important, as it involves organizing the Discover Biological Engineering FPOP; an important resource for the department in terms of getting incoming students excited about the major and expanding the MIT BE community. As someone that has experienced the FPOP from both the incoming freshman and counselor perspectives, I believe I have a clear understanding of what representing our department in a fun and effective way entails. In addition to the FPOP organization, I believe that the VP position has a lot of untapped potential. I would personally like to focus on improving and strengthening the community feeling of our department. I plan on helping organize study breaks with visiting professors to improve faculty-student relations. I will also be very open to other event or improvement suggestions from you. I believe that the VP position entails not only showing incoming freshmen, but also current BE students that Course 20 is the best!


  • Secretary:

Takes minutes, adds notes to wiki, reserves rooms for meetings


Jennifer Thornton

Hi there! My name is Jennifer Thornton, and I'm a junior running for Secretary of the BE undergraduate board. I’m excited to get involved with the BE board because I want to work to make the Course 20 student body connected, well fed, and in-the-know! In terms of my secretarial skills, I have experience taking minutes for student groups and I love keeping organized notes and getting things done. Also, I’m specifically aiming to redesign and consistently update our BEUB wiki so that it is easy to navigate and full of information on current events and projects for BE undergrads. The board exists to benefit every Course 20 undergrad-as Secretary, I will work tirelessly to make sure that it does. Thank you! ACG CAC GCA AAU AAA UCG :)


  • Treasurer:

Orders food, budgets events, handles merchandise, all other pecuniary needs


Karinna Vivanco

Hi Course 20! My name is Karinna Vivanco, and I am running for BEUB treasurer. This past year, I've acted as the BEUB campus representative and have really enjoyed helping to develop communication within the department. I would really like to continue on the board to help plan even more study breaks and events that could connect the department even further. I know there is so much interest within our major to meet more Course 20s but not as many organized opportunities. I would like to improve upon that with careful event planning to make bonding more practical. Aside from serving on the board, I've been an active leader on the executive boards of both my dorm and dance community. I believe I have the experience and enthusiasm to help improve our department. Thank you! :)


Hannah Kempton

Hey Course 20! My name is Hannah Kempton and I'm a junior running for treasurer of the BE undergraduate board. I'm excited and passionate about course 20--outside of class, I'm a BE associate advisor and I UROP in the Zhang lab in the Broad. I would love to get more involved in the department by combining my two main interests: biological engineering and food! For the past 2 years I have been on the planning board of SWE, where my main responsibility was organizing events for members and (most importantly) ordering food for said events. As a result, I have experience working collaboratively to plan study breaks, budgeting events, dealing with reimbursements, and ordering food from the tastiest restaurants in Cambridge! As your treasurer I promise to plan many delicious study breaks throughout the semester and to work on hopefully getting course 20 tshirts for the department. Thanks! :)


  • Campus Relations

Responsible for communicating with the student body, emails, and publicizing events


Jennifer Ibanez

Throughout my time here at MIT, the BE department has shown me nothing but love. Though the major is no doubt one of the more difficult, I have always found the faculty and student body to be very supportive and accessible to each other. I am running for Campus Representative because I would love to become more involved in the BE community, and I believe having students’ opinions represented in the Board is very important. In high school, I was on several planning committees and also served as student representative in various student-faculty groups.

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