Undergraduate BE Board:Minutes - 3/31/08 Minutes

BE UG Board Meeting March 31, 2008 Student Center Coffee House 10:00pm

Next Meeting: Monday, April 7th, Coffee House 10 pm.

Attendance: Emilienne, Marta, Bernice, Emzo, Dawn, Maryelise, Renuka


 * 1) Welcome and Attendance
 * 2) Associate Advising
 * 3) *Dawn
 * 4) **in the future A.A. info to faculty will come from Linda and Cathy, not us
 * 5) **we need to send another email to sophomores about having them contact their AA
 * 6) *dinner study break - get the word out ASAP so that associate advisors can attend
 * 7) **DATE: Sunday, April 27th
 * 8) **time: 1:00 pm
 * 9) **place - get funding for royal east? or catering in a better room on campus..walker or 20 chimneys?
 * 10) **ask what kind of budget we can have?
 * 11) **RSVP for a restaurant and students are more likely to come
 * 12) **food: restaurant or Sebastian's catering?
 * 13) **seating - tables and chairs, table cloths, signs with advising names
 * 14) **publicity
 * 15) CPW Academic Fair - Friday April 11th 2-4pm Johnson
 * 16) *one week from Friday!
 * 17) *Marta poster for easel
 * 18) **Saturday, 3:00pm to work on poster, Coffee House
 * 19) **Marta will get poster board, order pictures from the study break
 * 20) *Info Sheets from Cathy
 * 21) *Pens, sharpies, etc
 * 22) *Email for volunteers: Maryelise
 * 23) *Wear BE tshirts
 * ASA
 * 1) *Bernice
 * 2) **confusion over who can change it
 * 3) **dawn forward sasha's email
 * 4) **our group isn't appearing on the website
 * 5) *Are we able to reserve a better room for AA dinner event?
 * 6) Curriculum Committee update
 * 7) *Emilienne
 * 8) *busybecurriculum AT mit DOT edu for the representatives
 * 9) *add section to the wiki?
 * 10) **Maryelise will add
 * 11) *office hours, schedule them
 * 12) BE TA Awards
 * 13) *Drew Endy wants us to head the voting process
 * 14) *send out email to undergrads asking them to nominate undergrad and grad TAs
 * 15) *survey monkey? click name and write short response
 * 16) *emphasize that its a short essay
 * 17) *marta will run idea by drew
 * 18) *don't include non-course 20 electives
 * 19) **must be core course 20 course (like 6.00 as well) and a TA whose is declared course 20
 * 20) Bulletin Board
 * 21) *Dawn, Emzo will meet this weekend
 * 22) *have a sketch for monday
 * 23) Course 20 Open House
 * 24) *after April 10th:
 * 25) **Wednesday April 16th 4-5pm
 * 26) **Thursday April 17th 7:30-8:30pm
 * 27) *FOOD - cookies and ice cream sundaes
 * 28) *Get more professors to come to small talk after speech
 * 29) *Get a few grad students' COOL FIGURES to talk about and show off
 * 30) Shirts
 * 31) *Set a deadline for picking up shirts: FRIDAY
 * 32) *different survey monkeys for each type of shirt
 * 33) *someone to program it
 * 34) *Cafe Press Issues
 * 35) **MIT name, BE department, MIT legal dept?
 * 36) *Renuka is the new long term t-shirt chair

FOR NEXT TIME:
 * 1) ASA Issues
 * CPW
 * 1) Bulletin Board
 * 2) T-shirts