Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 2/17/12 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting
2-17-12
Student Center, 5th Floor
7:00pm

1. New meeting time: Thursday evening (7 or 8)
2. Start on FPOP
3. Everyone: respond to Cathy's e-mail about meeting on March 21
4. Associate Advising
5. Study Breaks --Treasurer and Campus Relations should take care of planning this
   • after 20.330 or 20.310 major assignment due
   • in the beub lounge or elsewhere?
     • beub lounge
6. Jonathon and Matt - talk to Anne or Doug about funding
7. Should we survey undergrads about what they want in the lounge?
8. Merchandise
   • do we want the old design or a new t-shirt design
   • design competition?
   • make order through QRST
   • need a new FPOP t-shirt
   • do we want mugs? sweatpants?
9. Fraenkel's research contest
   • Jonathon - e-mail Fraenkel
10. Open house joint with BE-BMES
11. Need to start working on CPW stuff
    • booth at the midway fair
12. BE mixer with different grades
    • in the evening
    • how much people would show up: contingent on funding
13. Grad school talk
14. FPOP
    • people should start to apply as counselors
      • Jenny - send out google-doc/email soon
      • should include oddball question/something fun
    • more hands on activities?
    • more off campus activities
15. Dinners/lunches with professors
    • talk about research and eat food together
    • get dinner with three or four profs (people can apply to participate in this)
16. Big brother program
    • sophomore/senior or undergrads/grads
    • mixers with each other
17. Movie breaks
    • off campus or comfortable lecture rooms
18. Fix up the wiki
    • what is the purpose? Is it necessary?
    • mainly for beub use
    • should we use a different website platform
19. E-mail out about meetings to the entire be undergrad population
    • attendance from outside the board can't hurt
    • will be held in the beub lounge
    • can we get food? will entice more people to come