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Vol. 5 Issue 11 [04/13/09 - 04/20/09]
General Member Events HKN Awards

HKN Broomball Tournament

HKN charity BBQ

HKN Scavenger Hunt

Dr. Everitt's Neighborhood

HKN Elections

WECE Date Auction

Initiate T-Shirt Design

HKN Executive Board Meetings

Barcrawl with IEEE and Alpha Omega Epsilon

Power Lunch with Professor Brunet

Power Lunch with Professor Goddard

Power Lunch with Professor Makela

Viasat info session

Office Hour Tutoring

New Meeting Time for Vision Committee

Contact Us

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Vol. 5 Issue 11[04/13 - 04/20/2009]
 

Attention: HKN Awards


Congratulations to the HKN Award winners for this year. The winners of the award are as following:
Leadership Award goes to Christopher Li
Scholarship Award goes to Rami Abdullah
Character Award goes to Akanksha Sharma
Please congratulate our fellow HKN members/initiates, if you see them in the hallway.

HKN Initiate Events


HKN Broomball Tournament

April 25, Ice Arena, 8pm-close

Come and join us on the ice for our very own broomball tournament! Sign-ups are $30 per team and $8 for free agents. Great Prizes to win! Questions or want to sign up, come over to the HKN Office at 243 Everitt Lab.

HKN charity BBQ

Tuesday April 21st, 10am - 2pm

On Tuesday April 21st HKN will be holding a barbecue. It is going to be held right outside of Everitt, next to Engineering Hall from 10am - 2pm.

HKN Scavenger Hunt

April 13th to 17th

Registration is FREE. Signup at the HKN Office ASAP or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Prizes include LabVIEW, Microsoft software, $250 cash, Citgo gas cards, etc. Teams of 4-6 people try to complete as many tasks as possible during the week. Feel free to elaborate on how much FUN it will be.

Dr. Everitt's Neighborhood


Now Available!!

After months in production, HKN's free and independent guide to ECE, Dr. Everitt's Neighborhood, will be available at the HKN/IEEE office at 243 Everitt starting Monday, April 6. Pick up a copy and get the inside scoop on picking courses, finding a job, ECE faculty members, and more.

Upcoming Events and Meetings


HKN Elections

21st April, 6pm - 7pm, 165 Everitt Lab

Interested in being an HKN officer for Fall 2009? Applications are currently being accepted. All members and current initiates are encouraged to consider running for a position as an officer. The descriptions of the officer positions can be found on the HKN website. If you need more information, please contact one of the board members.

WECE Date Auction

April 17th @ Joe's Beer Garden from 4:00-5:30

Come meet the most attractive ECE singles on the market! Bid on people to donate to charity and you get a win-win situation. A cheap date and a good feeling inside. Even if you're not going to bid come out and see what the auctionees got!

Initiate T-Shirt Design

Due April 17 by midnight

Are you capable of drawing stick figures? Then you're perfect to design this semester's initiate class t-shirt! All the new initiates will receive one of these shirts so it's in all the initiates' interests to have an awesome one. If there aren't any good designs it might just end up being a tulip with I less than 3 smelly arm pits.

1 point for an acceptable design
3 points if your design wins

HKN Executive Board Meetings

Every Thursday at 6pm in 330N Everitt Lab

Come and see what a board meeting is like. This is a great opportunity if you'd like to run for next semester's exec board or even if you're just interested in listening!

1 point per meeting

Barcrawl with IEEE and Alpha Omega Epsilon

April 14th, 8PM - 2AM

Well be joining up with other Engineering organizations for this semester's barcrawl! Come out with everyone and meet some new people and have a great night with your fellow engineers! Sign up at the HKN Office so we can order t-shirts and check out the Facebook Event: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?sid=7163a33dd946ebb79a0a60b5e796d0bf&eid=81395224432&ref=search

Schedule: 9 PM - 10 PM: Legends 10 PM - 11 PM: Murphy's 11 PM - 12 AM: Firehaus 12 AM - 2 AM: Brother's

Power Lunches & Info Sessions


Power Lunch with Professor Brunet

Tuesday, April 21st at noon, Meet at HKN office

Have your lunch on the ECE Department while talking with the Chief Advisor for ECE, Professor Brunet. Sign up at the HKN Office or show up the day of. Meet at the HKN Office at noon and walk over to the Union. Have all your questions about research, graduate school, life as a professor, fields in ECE answered by an ECE professor!

1 point

Power Lunch with Professor Goddard

Tuesday, April 14th at noon, Meet at HKN office

Have your lunch on the ECE Department while talking with Professor Goddard. Sign up at the HKN Office or show up the day of. Meet at the HKN Office at noon and walk over to the Union. Have all your questions about research, graduate school, life as a professor, fields in ECE answered by an ECE professor!

1 point

Power Lunch with Professor Makela

Thursday, April 16th at noon, Meet at HKN office

Have your lunch on the ECE Department while talking with Professor Makela. Sign up at the HKN Office or show up the day of. Meet at the HKN Office at noon and walk over to the Union. Have all your questions about research, graduate school, life as a professor, fields in ECE answered by an ECE professor!

1 point

Viasat info session

April 23rd, 1EH 106B1, 5pm - 7pm

Interested in starting your career with Viasat? Come and join us for an info session on April 23rd.

1 point

Other General Announcements


Office Hour Tutoring

We will give you 2 points if you sign up for tutoring during office hours. Send Sujeeth Bharadwaj ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) a list of classes that you're comfortable with (comfortable doesn't mean you aced the class. As long as you can help someone with a homework problem, you're in good shape). There are two reasons you would want to do this: 1) The two points 2) It's boring to just sit there and stare at your facebook account for an hr.

New Meeting Time for Vision Committee

Wednesdays at 7pm in the HKN Office(243 Everitt)

The HKN Vision Committee is an opportunity to help create and support new ideas within HKN. It is a great venue to have your voice heard and it is an opportunity to gain further knowledge of the organization. Meetings will now be held on Wednesdays at 7pm in the HKN Office (243 Everitt). All initiates and members are welcome. Joining the Vision Committee and participating (by attending at least 4 meetings and helping to support new ideas) will earn you 5 initiation points! Please contact Tom Comberiate ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) if you would like to add topics to the weekly agenda or if you have specific questions about the committee. Let your voice be heard by joining the Vision Committee!

To request that an announcement be put on Eta Kappa News, please visit HKN Newsletter Submissions. Whether the announcement will be put on the Newsletter will be determined by the Recording Secretary.
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