HKN Minutes - 2003-10-01 (General Meeting)

Officer Reports

President (Paul Mattione)

• Bayers Pharmaceutical is schedule to come down to talk on November 12th
• Waltkin and I are still looking for a guest speaker for the banquet
• There will be a breakfast leadership on Tuesday Oct 14th at 7:30am UCE Mark Twain room
• If you are interested in the HKN leadership award talk to myself or Dr. Walkins for the application and the procedure to apply
• Bill Krekler will announce the most active member from last semester; award is a Kawaski jacket and it goes to Jeremy Allyn.
• Tonight is Quartarmania. So come out and have fun.

Vice-President (Jeremy Allyn)

• Trivial question "Who knows what a 555 Timer function do?"
• Pledges
  • Plaques are ready, pay the fees and I will give you one.
  • After the meeting we will have a quiz in EE & CompE (ie node voltage) Rm 101
  • This week there will be no work day so sign up for next week. There will be 2 afternoon shifts on Sat.
• A room was reserved, now we need to decide on the menu and the number of tickets

Secretary (Nga Nguyen)

• Sign in sheets are being passed around please sign in to be active members.

Treasurer (Brian Heckman)

• Breadboard sale went really well. There are 9 breadboard left so if you know anyone who is interested in buying one let me know. We made a profit of $70.
• Need to consider of buying more bread board for next semester.

Bridge Correspondent (Ryan Bales)

• Talked with Dr. Waltkins, Bridge report is due in the middle of Oct. If I send out an email to you asking about information please reply to me ASAP.
• Need to arrange a good time to do yearbook photo for this semester

STUCO Representative (Erik Stidham)

• The STUCO president (Julia) would like to meet up with our organization to get to know the organization. We should schedule to meet with her at our next general meeting.

Pledge Committee Chair (Travis Hebner)

• N/A

Student Projects Lab Committee Chair (Michael Thielker)

• National Instrument came and suggested that we should do a tutorial on LabView. The software does not cost that much, the card cost about $400/600 and the cord is about $100-200. We should talk to National Instrument in donating us the card then we can think of doing the tutorial to ECE students.

Communications Committee Chair (Paul Bertrend)

• A new website will be up by next week.
• List serve has been updated, if you think your name is not on the serve send me an email pmbd78@umr.edu

Tours Committee Chair (Josh Dirksen)

• N/A

Marketing Committee Chair (Garry Harris)

• N/A

Fundraising & Service Activities Committee Chair (Tyler Vrooman)

• Departmental BBQ next Wednesday 10/8 at 5:00pm lower pavilion. I need some volunteers to help prepare and do some grilling on that day. Talk to make after the meeting.
• Pumpkin Pi is in the process would have it done until close to Thanksgiving
• We should decide on either doing the Pool/Dart Tournament again
• The Chem Group is having their volleyball tournament on Oct 16/17 $60/team(5people): 1st--$20, 2nd--$15, 3rd--$10.
• I will try to setup a volleyball tournament with other honor society

Old Business

New Business

• Tyler Vrooman "I moved that we spend $160 on the Department BBQ". Voted. Motion carry
• Dr. Beetner, "We should have a departmental T-shirt sale again" (EE&CmpE logo)
• Need to check on the qualification to join HKN making sure that it is fair for all EE and CmpE students.