HKN Minutes - 2006-01-10 (Officers' Meeting)

New Business

HKN student company dinner details

Company responses so far (from Sandia/Adtran):

• No door prizes, due to competition for providing the best one
• Need about a month advanced notice (Sandia may not be able to get government money)
• Have only one main speaker instead of small company presentations
• Host the day before or after the career fair
• Allow both graduate and undergraduate students to attend
• Have a social/mixer to allow students to talk to everybody, not just those at their table
• Make sure students attend!!

Officer & advisor decisions:

• Dinner will be on Tuesday, February 7, the day before the career fair
• Will begin at 5 PM so companies can host things later in the evening if so desired
• Cost will be $300 per table
• Host in the Havener Center with Chartwells catering
• Five companies will attend, with the possibility for a sixth as a buffer
• 9 people per table, 7 of those being students and a max of 2 company representatives
• Have everyone wear simple nametags
• Allow room for advisors, dean, department chair, career center employees
• Students will have to RSVP: HKN members can sign up first; invitations will extend to graduate students and IEEE members; extra slots will be made available to department students who are referred to by a faculty member (as some assurance that they will attend)
• Aside from HKN members, students wanting to attend will have to complete an application invitation with information such as the following: GPA, year status, US citizen or not, want job or internship, name of faculty sponsor, resume, rank of the companies want to sit with, etc.
• Need commitment: penalty for no show? => faculty sponsor may be best solution
• Speaker will be Wayne Huebner to speak on present research at UMR for no more than 15 minutes. Dr. Beetner has contact information
• Students will submit resumes for a resume book to be distributed to all the companies; all HKN members will have resumes in the book if they choose, whether they were present at the dinner or not
• Setup for the banquet and nametag creation can be pledge service
• Tell representatives that HKN members and selected graduate and undergraduate students will be attending
• Advertising chair, Adam Flynn, will be responsible for contacting students and determining who will attend
• Fundraising chair, Jeff LaBundy, will be responsible for determining if the COC wants to be involved
• Companies need to be contacted before January 17th
• A committee of three of four people needs to be formed