Meeting Minutes: 01/17/2012
S.W.E. Minutes
1-17-2012
- Microsoft Tech Talk
> Thursday Jan. 24th @ 6pm E2-599
> Great opportunity to get insight about what Microsoft is working on
> You can submit your resumes!
-ACM/SWE Movie Night
> Movie: 'Pirates of the Silicon Valley'
> Thursday: Jan. 26th @ 6pm
> Location: TBD
- Mr. Engineering Pageant Planning
> Date: Feb. 24th (last day of E-week)
> Prizes: Game package that EA games generously will donate. More details later.
> Contests: 1.) Trivia Questions
2.) Talent Showdown
3.) Nerdy Wear Parade
> Open to all male engineering students (Undergrads &TAs)
> Next week: Start advertising to find potential contestants, so ask your friends if they would like to join!
- Making posters ([1.] Finding contestants & [2.] Spreading the word about the event)
- Facebook event invite (post in SWE FB page, and Ugrads of SOE FB page)
- During E-week show the prizes that the contestants can potentially win
- Fundraising plans during E-week (Engineering week)
> E-week (Engineering week) dates are Feb 19th -Feb 24th
> We plan on selling some kind of baked good. Here are some suggestions that came up in this week's meeting:
- Cookies (Red Velvet, Snicker doodle, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter)
- Banana Bread Muffins
- Millionaire's Shortbread
- Fudge
> As a club we plan on making circuit jewelry as an event between members then sell them. Everyone is welcomed and gets a chance to learn about soldering.
> If you have any other ideas for things we can make, send us email!
- Topics for next week's SWE meeting:
> Slogans for club t-shirts
> Taste testing baked goods for E-week
> Compile questions for Trivia portion of Mr. Engineering Pageant
> Thursday Jan. 24th @ 6pm E2-599
> Great opportunity to get insight about what Microsoft is working on
> You can submit your resumes!
-ACM/SWE Movie Night
> Movie: 'Pirates of the Silicon Valley'
> Thursday: Jan. 26th @ 6pm
> Location: TBD
- Mr. Engineering Pageant Planning
> Date: Feb. 24th (last day of E-week)
> Prizes: Game package that EA games generously will donate. More details later.
> Contests: 1.) Trivia Questions
2.) Talent Showdown
3.) Nerdy Wear Parade
> Open to all male engineering students (Undergrads &TAs)
> Next week: Start advertising to find potential contestants, so ask your friends if they would like to join!
- Making posters ([1.] Finding contestants & [2.] Spreading the word about the event)
- Facebook event invite (post in SWE FB page, and Ugrads of SOE FB page)
- During E-week show the prizes that the contestants can potentially win
- Fundraising plans during E-week (Engineering week)
> E-week (Engineering week) dates are Feb 19th -Feb 24th
> We plan on selling some kind of baked good. Here are some suggestions that came up in this week's meeting:
- Cookies (Red Velvet, Snicker doodle, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter)
- Banana Bread Muffins
- Millionaire's Shortbread
- Fudge
> As a club we plan on making circuit jewelry as an event between members then sell them. Everyone is welcomed and gets a chance to learn about soldering.
> If you have any other ideas for things we can make, send us email!
- Topics for next week's SWE meeting:
> Slogans for club t-shirts
> Taste testing baked goods for E-week
> Compile questions for Trivia portion of Mr. Engineering Pageant
See you next Tuesday 2pm @ Baskin Engineering Rm. 330!
If you have any questions about upcoming events contact us (UCSC SWE) and we'll be happy to help:
Common Acronyms for engineering clubs:
WiSE = Women in Science and Engineering
SHPE = Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
ACM = Association for Computing Machinery
BMES = Biomedical Engineering Society