Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 03/30/10 Minutes
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BE UG Board Meeting Minutes
Date/Time: 3/30/10
Place: Coffeehouse at *7:30*
- Welcome and Attendance
- Scheduling - Sivakami will get back to Kevin
- Social Events
- Junior Study Break this Thursday
- Vermonster ice cream ($35/scoop)- store 3 scoops in BE UG Lounge freezer
- Also buy ice cream cones, scoopers, forks, bowls, spoons
- Send out advertisements!
- Sophomore Study Break - Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake
- Buy 5 cheesecakes, just to be safe
- Finals study break w/ t-shirts - tentatively May 4th
- Senior Dinner - Maryelise will handle, Kevin will email to ask if we can come
- BE FPOP - Sivakami has talked to Prof. Lauffenberger
- UAAP says that we need to turn in by Thursday:
- Emjay's 2-page advertisement - fill-in now
- Guarantee for funding - Prof. Lauffenberger says $2-3000
- Department commitment for 2 yrs. - yes
- Dates and charges - yes
- Four questions to ask applicants - yes
- Centered around actual BE project - maybe a smaller 20.309 project
- Caveat - students can't actually do stuff that requires safety training
- Academic Events
- MD panel with Griffith/Isaacson - No updates, sorry. Nobody has been responding.
- Grad advising event - narrow it down to 4 seniors, 4 grad students; don't intimidate sophomores
- Industrial Seminar Series final update
- Graduate board has decided on an email RSVP system and a per person cost
- We pay according to the number of undergraduates that RSVP
- Associate Advising - last statement
- Cathy will email sophomores names of AA's and faculty advisors and tell them to get in contact if they want to do stuff
- Kevin will email to remind AA's to do stuff
- Curriculum Meeting - probably last week in April
- T-shirt orders - Kevin
- Costs us $10/shirt
- We will subsidize - $5 for students who preorder, $7 at door
- Have students pre-order by April 9
- Kevin will email form students will fill out, and website for more info.
- One of the sophomores: stop by Cathy's, get sample t-shirt, show it during class and/or study break