Meeting Minutes: 10/11/2011

SWE Minutes
10-11-2011

Upcoming Events:

TODAY Project AWESOmE Pizza Party!
 
- Thursday, October 13th from 6 - 8 pm @ Oakes Provost's House (Must RSVP through website)
- Dinner event that gets women involved in computer science/ engineering through guest speakers such as Ann Zweig who is 
  involved in the Genome Browser Project 
- Curriculum charts 
- Double majoring with computer science options
 
BMES/SWE Woodstock's Fundraiser 
- Date: October 27th @ Woodstock's on Front St. 

- Time: TBD
- Come on down and enjoy some pizza to help support SWE and BMES 

ACM/SWE Movie Night 

- Date/Location: TBD, but will be somewhere around the 1st week of November at Baskin
- SWE and ACM members get together to watch a movie, kick back, and eat! 
- In meeting we came up with Top 4 movies list for ACM to choose from:
   1.) Captain America
   2.) Rise of the Planet Apes
   3.) Wall-E
   4.) Tron Legacy

RIM Company (Research in Motion) SWE Lab Tour
- Date: TBD Mid-November
- We get to tour the company that takes part in the manufacturing of Blackberry phones 
- Everyone is welcome to join, sign ups will be soon

New T-shirt Designs and Slogans
- We plan on designing a shirt that is more bioengineering oriented
- Here are a few examples of the slogans that we mentioned at the meeting:
  > My clone does my homework 
  > Measurably perfect the first approximation
  > Private members and public objects
  > Have a slug jumping a double helix rope
- We need more ideas! So if you have a design or slogan in mind for the shirts, please feel free to show us at meeting or email sross@ucsc.edu or upload the 
  design on the SWE Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/2201021904/
- We will vote as group on the slogan and the design :)

Mr.Engineering Pageant Calendar To-do list:

November>
-Find and write to sponsors to ask for gifts that we can give to our brave contestants
 *If you know of a company who is willing to donate please let us know through email 
sweslugs@gmail.com or meeting. Thanks in advance!
- Start recruiting contestants and possibly have an informational meeting about it/ advertise

December>
 
- Winter Break!

January>
- Advertising in classes and making fliers to hype everyone 
- Finalize contestants 
- SWE activity: Making a circuit crown for the winner of the pageant

February>
- Have the 1st Mr.Engineering Pageant sometime during e-week

See you next Tuesday at 4pm BE 330!


If you have any questions contact us (UCSC SWE):
 
- sweslugs@gmail.com


Key of all the acronyms:
ACM = Association for Computing Machinery
BMES = Biomedical Engineering Society