HKN Minutes - 2005-10-25 (Officers' Meeting)
Officer Reports
President (Frances Pratt)
- No meeting on November 1st
- Looking into getting mugs made for new faculty members (plaques too expensive): engraved in glass, up to 10 characters, HKN bridge and UMR text for template (50+ uses), made by Kent's Jewelry
Vice President (Ben Moss)
- Glass cabinet in soda machine room: talk to Jim McCracken: want a big display for HKN, share with radio club?, need department approval to display things, relocate to hallway by senior design lab?, fire hazard?
- Awards banquet/Student company dinner: compsci secretary says check website for companies, charge $250 per company, currently have about 15 companies attend
- Banquet speaker: Brewer science contact?, Boeing contact in Italy?, need to finalize
- Workday on Oct 22 went well at Stanek and Watkins houses
- Need workday houses for Sat Oct 29th: Stanek?, Beetner?, Sedhi?, Moss? (needs truck)
- Workday project: organize photos in lab, uses large pages so labels can be inserted, help with banquet slideshow?
- Banquet November 19th: Grad students not paid dues yet, most pledges have paid, professors joining?
- Need to grade pledge tests
Secretary (Luke Hogrebe)
- Need to update names on the lab board
Treasurer (Brandon Simrell)
- Scanning in shirt design for new polos
Lab coordinator (Christopher Osterwise)
- Components ordered to sell at coffee shop for 213: parts bundle?, only sell one bundle to each group first then extras later, label things well for coffee shop workers, price bundles so HKN comes out even selling ~25 bundles, sell breadboards too
- Watkins old VCRs are in the lab to be scrapped for parts
Bridge correspondent (Gavin Jones)
- Will keep things organized for next bridge report: lots of picture and flyer records
Tours (Ryan Bales)
- Coffee shop workers good
- Friday October 28th tours: Miner day group and individual tour: Gavin Jones and Ben Moss
Pledge Chair (Jonathan Williams)
- Requested pool room in Havener for tournament, flyers being made, prize: split pot?, donation?
- Plaque signing on November 10th
Advisors
Watkins
- Golden Resistor Award made at Kent's Jewelry?
Beetner
- Need a written student/company dinner description, choose time of year?, approach companies in January?, host Friday night after career fair?, have a resume book of HKN members, reception after dinner?, don't rotate dinner tables, form new committee for the stud/co dinner?