Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 03/02/09 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting 03-02-09 Coffee House, 3rd Floor Student Center 10:00PM


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) ASA recognition - Maryelise
 * 3) *Still waiting to hear back on their decision
 * 4) *Meeting with BE-BMES to discuss our groups' roles on Wednesday
 * 5) Course 20 Underground Guide
 * 6) *set of questions for survey
 * 7) ** how hard is this class compared to 20.110 or 20.320?
 * 8) ** are the pre-req's appropriate?
 * 9) ** was this class useful?
 * 10) *Our ideas for implementation:
 * 11) **use survey monkey for each class
 * 12) **pay someone to collect and organize data (not likely due to budget)
 * 13) **put results on BEUG wiki for all to see and use
 * 14) **get people's info by using websis degree audit to see which classes students take
 * 15) Associate Advising
 * 16) *Email to AAs to see if they have planned anything yet (keep reminding them to do so)
 * 17) *make sure all associate advisors are utilized (10s and 09s)
 * 18) Study Breaks -
 * 19) *add study breaks for 20.330 and 20.310 test nights to flyer
 * 20) *flyer to hand out at these events- update them with more information (names, captions, etc), then email out to BE lists
 * 21) *send follow up emails to get details on what BE students want from Course 20 (what about med school, grad school, internships, etc)
 * 22) * email Fraenkel, Manalis, Grodzinsky, Wittrup to talk at Grad School info session (with date and time)
 * 23) **Tentatively April 23rd
 * 24) Isaacson Pre-med Event
 * 25) *Monday, March 9 7:30pm
 * 26) *coordinate food w/ Cathy? Who is in charge of what? BEUB vs. BE-BMES
 * 27) Dan Darling Internship Session
 * 28) *His availability
 * 29) **Tuesday, March 3 (must be done by 7 p.m. on Tuesday) - Thurdsay, March 5, 2009
 * 30) **Tuesday, March 10 (must be done be 7 p.m. on Tuesday) - Thursday, March 12, 2009
 * 31) *Maryelise/Marta have the excel file of internship info for the wiki--who will post?
 * 32) * let BE students know that internships are posted in BE Lounge
 * 33) Scholarship Info Session
 * 34) *Ms Kimerbly Benard from Global Education and Career Development Center
 * 35) *Talk about Truman Scholarship, Fulbright, Ph Beta Kappa, Gates, and Rhodes, and Marshall scholarships
 * 36) *Course 20 senior, Matt Gethers, won a Rhodes scholar this year -- invite?
 * 37) ROUND TABLE BE ELECTIVES discussion lunch with seniors
 * 38) * Fill out questionnaire on (1) electives (2) post-MIT plans
 * 39) *Disucss whatever you want to - curriculum, life after MIT, professional development...anything, complaints, praise, wild rambling ideas.
 * 40) *Linda suggested inviting Juniors to one of them to pass on restricted electives info on the spot
 * 41) *Seniors coordinate dates yet?
 * 42) **March and again in mid-April?
 * 43) **Prof. Han recommended week before spring break
 * 44) Lunches with BE professors
 * 45) *Discuss with BE-BMES?
 * 46) *begin with BEUB advisors? (easy access)
 * 47) *vary days of week, times, etc - make schedule today
 * 48) UG Lounge
 * 49) *posters - Cathy is laminating
 * 50) *keep checking on other parts of lounge - i.e. big wall-size whiteboard for tutor room (go through catalog and pick one out, comfy seats to nap, etc.
 * 51) **need to make specific list (for Fraenkel and Cathy) with whiteboard dimensions, specific couch size, etc to order
 * 52) *suggestions box - who to donate box?
 * 53) Senior Dinner - updates?
 * 54) BE T-Shirts - Bernice
 * 55) *Cathy is emailing out about picking up t-shirts
 * 56) *BE Gear Ideas
 * 57) **sweatshirts, winter hat, pencils
 * 58) **new design for next year
 * 59) **send out email for a design? for interest? -- next year
 * 60) BE Seminars - how get BE students on that email list
 * 61) *are we getting emails?
 * 62) Curriculum Committee
 * 63) *Updates from those who attended, thoughts?
 * 64) *Suggestions
 * 65) **add a class like course 6 has on communications and interpersonal connections (6.uat) which is a 6 unit class that does a better job teaching you things than 20.109 presentation/persuasion skills
 * 66) Tutoring
 * 67) *updates on which classes are covered
 * 68) *publicize tutoring for all core BE classes!
 * 69) *20.111 tutor or not?
 * 70) Start a pre-orientation program (Emjay)
 * 71) *Maybe do it with course 10 (Emjay will get more information from the course 9 coordinator)
 * 72) Eli's Petition to Course 20
 * 73) Other?
 * 74) Next meeting with Linda Griffith/BE-BMES - Wed March 4 9AM in 56-402
 * 75) *Who's coming?
 * 76) *Things to bring up at the meeting
 * 77) Next BEUB meeting = ?