Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 02/05/09 Minutes (Prof. Griffith)

BE UG Board Meeting with Professor Griffith Minutes 02-05-09 56-402 5:00 pm

Attendance: Professor Linda Griffith, Maryelise, Marta, Dawn, Bernice, Emzo


 * 1) Underground Guide
 * 2) *UROP credit for programming not an option because no learning oportunity
 * 3) *This can be done manually rather than programming
 * 4) **Printing out status of registration to see what electives students took
 * 5) ***Degree audit page?
 * 6) **OpenWetWare survey?
 * 7) **Survey Monkey survey?
 * 8) *Try having a restrictive elective roundtable event where older students can write down what they've taken, how it wokred for them, other students can ask questions
 * 9) *Put a big post-it pad in the lounge for students to write comments about restrictive electives
 * 10) Curriculum Reps
 * 11) *The dates will be set this week so that we can arrange ahead of time for people to attend
 * 12) *For one of the meetings, try larger curriculum meeting with a lot of students to get maximum input
 * ASA
 * 1) *Try to focus on professional development
 * 2) *Lunches with BE Professors
 * 3) *BE-BMES can interface with the National Organization
 * 4) *Professor Griffith will have a meeting with the BE-BMES advisors
 * 5) Our events
 * 6) *BE Admissions resources: Prof. Grodzinsky, and Prof. Wittrup
 * 7) *be sure to get people who have been on admissions committees for at least 3-4 years
 * 8) *We should address what the pre-med advising office isn't telling students/helping them with
 * 9) *MD/PhD resources: Prof. Niles, Prof. Dedon
 * 10) *Prof. Griffith will help us find MD's for an info session
 * 11) *Also look at non-traditional career options after BE
 * 12) Other
 * 13) *Plan on meeting every 3 weeks with Prof. Griffith