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9-28-08

1    Advisor for next semester    Nick    

  • Professor Carney will be on sabbatical in Netherlands next semester
  • Search criteria: somebody who is different from Prof. Carney for a different perspective, great connections in department, enthusiastic
  • Decide whether Professor Carney would be needed next Fall and having co-advisors
  • Choose within 3 weeks

2    New Advisor For Undetermined    Austin / Xin    

  • Decided not to make Anjali an adviser
  • Ask around for new adviser ASAP

3    Finances    Ryan    

  • Even if you do not have a budget, please send a budget request stating as such
  • please turn it in by beginning of this week
  • contact Melissa for IRS tax exempt status, nationals needs us to fill out tax forms
  • Janis should email Rogowski with new gmail account
  • Microsoft and IBM owes us money for EWI

4    Underground Guide Committee    Chris     

  • Initiates and Members have expressed interest
  • Chris would like to head a separate committee for this purpose
  • Need help; maybe make this an initiate project
  • Hold a meeting with people interested and Professor Kudeki perchance this Thursday
  • Print or online publication? Need someone with experience with PDF and Webpages
  • Max of five points for initiates attending the meetings

5    ETS    Burney    

  • Security has been improved; ETS was hacked
  • half of the initiates have made an account
  • most things have been fixed
  • need to fix Janis' ETS
  • put deadline on signing up on ETS

6    Office/lounge    Mike    

  • Desk downstairs now, but cannot put food or register down there; it was supposed to be for IEEE and HKN
  • use for tutoring hours
  • tests and food sold well

7    Office hours    Mike    

  • Going well; one spot Friday at 10am still open, ask one Matt Czapar or Anjali for the spot

8    Forms on website    Nick    

  • Request form for office supplies, new events, power lunches;

9    nvidia    Craig    

  • Thursday - Flyers need to be posted
  • On ETS for one point

10    iSalsa    Janis/Xin    

  • Xin also needs someone to run this on our side
  • someone needs to take attendance
  • target it towards entire campus, Giuliani's afterwards?
  • Rogowski can be in charge; put it up on MyECE

11    Look through records for Award winners    Nick    

  • Sent an email to Jarboe; some people missing from plaque and need to track down names
  • initiates can do this

12    National Conference    Janis    

  • How many people are we taking? Funding? Travel? About 25 people interested
  • capped at 6 to 8 people
  • Department will sponsor $175 USD per head, 60% of the costs will be covered, funding from Dale, no SORF
  • Driving 8hrs to Carnegie Mellon from UIUC
  • Trying to take everyone
  • First-come-first-serve
  • Brief 300 word essay for last resort to pick out of the 30 possibly

13    ETS events    Nick  

  • EWI, Mathworks, Initiate Social, iSalso, nVidia, Kaplan. Need to decide points for future events.

14    Potluck/Gamenight    Austin/Xin    

  • Chris Li volunteers for apartment; for anyone part of HKN

15    ECE Jam Tournament    Nick    

  • Need initiates to make a team; next semester

16    Power Lunch    Xin   

  • Set dates on power lunches; put it up on ETS
  • limit the number people by having sign ups on wall or through ETS

 

 

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