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9-1-08

1    Financial Update - Nick    

  • IRS, overdue check
  • It will be taken care of
  • Nick has talked to Tom Comberiate
  • Rogowski wishes to use software to keep account of HKN's financial records

2    EWI -  Emily  

  •  9 people signed up for EWI
  • Need to fill packets for student members and corporate members, assign tables, gift bags, refreshment, name tags
  • Someone needs to be in charge to gift bags, name tags
  • Need to contact people (preferably outside the board), Ford and Ouyang will be helping out
  • Man Ling will post flyers at Siebel, Hardy - Mechanical, McIntyre - Engineering Hall, Ford - Everitt, Janis - DCL, Echeverria - Grainger
  • Need to advertise to initiates

3    Revised board position on Merger - Andrew    

  • Board of Governors - changed the conditions of merger: do not need to be in IEEE member, not need to be an IEEE member life-time, instead will give free IEEE member for a year (optional, no longer mandatory); give autonomy to BoG from IEEE
  • Signing merger with these conditions; still debate on constitution of HKN, therefore no longer need 3/4s but 1/2s
  • IEEE still gives money
  • Muehlfeld sees it as legitimate and favorable towards HKN; 9 votes for "yes" from inactive chapters; board is fairly content

4    Corporate - Craig    

  • Two information sessions set
  • Mathworks has yet to be confirmed
  • Nvidia is set for Oct. 2nd
  • Heard from back Chicago Trading Session
  • Texas Instruments wants a luncheon, but no details yet, Illini Ballroom Lunch recommended, Sept 22nd recommended
  • Lockheed Martin wants to set up another small dinner Sept. 10, invited for all board members
  • Motorola heard back, wants to talk to him
  • AMD, Boeing, Deloitte, Intel - next time
  • No contact from DRW, Apple, John Deere, GE, Honeywell, Google
  • Honeywell emailed back over summer
  • Will old contacts
  • Janis will give Craig a list of names
  • Calendar needs to be set

5    Events - Ouyang    

  • Initiate Events proposals: game system tournament, football with Purdue (Manling shall send Xin email about Purdue contact), poker-freshman event, soup kitchen, charity event where professors dress up, broomball tournament, ultimate frisbee tournament
  • Confirmed advisors: Ding, Harwarth, Majid, Winston
  • Events need to be early

6    Inter-society Cooperation - Nick    

  • SHPE contacted a lot of major organizations, would like to see cooperation amongst the organizations, have large-scale professional and social events
  • have initiate committees be in contact with those other organizations

7    President's meeting/Freshman Fushion - Nick    

  • This week Wednesday at 6pm
  • Nick Hardy, Janis, Muehlfeld, Xin Chen will attend the event
  • Kaplan wants to meet with organizations with something with GRE

8    Alumni et Alumnae Database - Janis

  • Database somewhere on website, contact John Dietrick about it
  • Janis suggests that we have a business card for HKN-overall for advertising to HKN alum, Janis will do that
  • Alumni Events this weekend

9    Initiate/Member Mixer + Orientation - Manling    

  • Sept. 13th and 20th 3-5pm both at illini union respectively
  • Note Football on the 13th
  • Manling will ask Professors be at Mixer

10    Fix computer, new lounge status - Mike

  •     Talk to Josh Potts about computer, Jeanette Beck about lounge

11    One-on-Ones    Nick -

  • Nick will send email about appointments.

 

 

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