OSU AIChE Student Chapter

Meeting Minutes

The Oregon State AIChE Officer Meetings are every Wednesday at 5:00pm in the Gleeson Undergraduate Lounge. They normally last around 30 minutes, so come join us and contribute your ideas! Member meetings times vary; for more information please contact the OSU|AIChE President.

Below are meeting minutes from this year, in reverse-chronological order beginning with the latest meeting.

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Officer's Meeting Minutes October 28, 2009

Recording Secretary: Lauren Jansen

• Other fundraising ideas:
  - Rake leaves for the elderly
  - Habitat for Humanity
  - Rent an Engineer
  - Stickers
  - Copier recycler... office space style
  - Deep Fry ANYTHING!
  - Liquid nitrogen freeze everything!
  - Lockers
• Presentation in Nashville:
  As a club we are doing a presentation in Nashville on how to fundraise without big
  companies for clubs.
• Status of Application for COE Fundraising:
  - Needs to be done before Nationals. (November 5th!)
  - Needs to be semi-revised because last year we needed to provide more proof of funds
• 2 More General meetings:
  - Hercules (Paper Technologies Company) wants to interview week 2 of winter term.
  - Have a general meeting 1 week before the interviews. Jeff will contact them about
  more information.
  - Setting a date for Grad School Night. (Week 6th, November 4th): Presentations,
  applications, internships, faculty and student panels.
  - Summary of the national Conference and t-shirts right after (Week 7 and with
  officer meetings afterwards)
  - Library information meeting (pushed to the winter term) Week 8
  - Grad school night or library resource night are intended for two different
  audiences
  - Tualatin Valley Water District would like to make a presentation for the club...
  geared towards strengthening relationships for the EnvE students. (Winter term)

Officer's Meeting Minutes October 15, 2009

Recording Secretary: Lauren Jansen

• Introducing the new Freshman Reps:
  ChemE Freshman: Brynn Livesay, David Varin, Nicholas Kusanto
  BioE Freshman: Kenneth Huang, Marissa Yee
  EnvE Freshman: Cameron Oden, Lacey Kloster
• Trivia Night:
  -Positives:
  -Good Job
  -Nice Trivia
  -Perfect amount of pizza
  -Lots of People
  -Improvements:
  -Freshman did not know a lot of the answers
  -Can we move our meetings upstairs?
  -Potentially intimidating for the freshman first meeting
  -What would freshman like to see?
  -Cool experiment (myth busters)
  -Split up into the three majors and give advice
• General Meeting ideas (3 more to go):
  -Student Panels (tips)
  -Library Information Meeting (How to use...). Like week 6.
  -Student/Professor Panel... Inside Scoop or CBEE orientation.
  -Geared toward transfer students and new freshman
  -Meeting in week 8 will focus on people interested in Grad School
  -Try to get a different room for all the general meetings because Gleeson
  100 is too
  small
  -Next meeting potentially Wednesday @ 5pm
  -Food: Burritos
  -Plan for like 70 people attending
  -The next meeting will have a library information meeting and then a
  student panel
  about what classes to take and which professors are the best. Potentially
  grad
  students are there.
• T-Shirt Design:
  -Extending the design competition 2 weeks because only 2 people applied

Member's Meeting Minutes October 08, 2009

Recording Secretary: Ian Gluck

• CBEE Club Introduction:
  - What we are about
  - T-shirt announcements
  - Parking for football and basketball games
  - Volunteer work
  - Professional and Departmental Relations
  - Officer introductions
• Membership Dues:
  - $10 for yearly membership
  - Pay dues to Julie (the treasurer)
• Attendance at roughly 100, all pizza was consumed:
  
• Successful trivia game!:
  

Officer's Meeting Minutes October 01, 2009

Recording Secretary: Lauren Jansen

• Announcements:
  Kendra Senrow - Interested in having a student meeting where our club can learn about
  all the resources available in the Library.
• Reflect on Ice Cream Social:
  Pros
  - Good turn-out (estimated about 100-150 people)
  - Perfect amount of supplies for the amount of people
  - Lounge was large enough
  Cons
  - Line could be rearranged because it was awkwardly positioned
  - Could have used a sign to direct people from outside
  - Club sign-up and t-shirt sales needed to be in the lobby
  - Better introduction of the club before we serve ice cream
• AIChE National Conference:
  - Register for a pass to get into the conference by October 2, 2009
  - To get the $60 reimbursed, you must log 8 hours of volunteering or fundraising time
  - The cut-off date for deciding to go to the conference will be October 9th
• General Club Topics:
  First General Meeting
  - Ideas: Game night, bingo, trivia (age based)
  - Need pizza for around 80 people
  - Get food 15 minutes early
  - Make student store tickets prizes
  T-shirts for Nationals (Tara Binn will lead)
  - Making posters
  - Making design competition announcement at the October 8th meeting
  Website
  - Facebook Fan Page
  - CBEE Student Chapter website
  - Come back with design ideas for the next meeting
  Voting for the Freshmen representatives will be Friday, October 9th
  
  Next Meeting at October 8th, 2009! Declared Game Night!

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