HKN Officer Meeting 2007-08-22
Business
- Amy started with an introduction followed by an icebreaker
- Introduced meeting times and semester schedule
- Discussed ideas for activities
- Conference to be held here on Nov. 2-4
- Initiation will be on Nov. 4
- Officers encouraged to get companies to present at meetings
- Amy gave expectations of officers
- Discussed why students might join HKN
- Need to clean the lab
- Mentioned an idea of recycling plastic bottles
Officer Reports
President (Amy Perrey):
- Will be attending a risk management seminar with Tyler Sheeley, other officers are invited to join
Vice President (Tyler Sheeley):
- Pledging process will run through September and October
- Has obtained a list of eligible pledges -- needs help removing current members from this list
- Smoker to be held Sept. 10
- Will start assembling pledge packets
- Pledge packets to be distributed to professors and/or secretaries on Sept. 4
- Need to find names of members who have graduated so their keycodes to the lab can be reused
Treasurer (Devin Simms):
- Sorting out banking situation
- Bank says we have $2700, our records say we have $700, resulting in a $2000 discrepancy in our favor
- Can now write checks
Secretary (Kyle Guinn):
- Need telephone/address for President, VP, Treasurer, Bridge Correspondent, Communications Chair, and advisors to send to HKN HQ
- Asked if website was functional -- address has changed
Bridge Correspondent (Tyler Harms):
- Needs to get in touch with advisors
- Will ask officers for information as necessary
Pledge Chair (Robert Zuroweste):
- Needs to meet with Tyler Sheeley for duties
SPL Chair (Chris Osterwise):
- Keeping sodas stocked
- Ordered a belt for the drill press
- SPL is in need of new equipment (oscilloscopes, function generators, power supplies, possibly a circuit board etching/milling machine)
- Hand tools have been updated, seeking donations for more expensive equipment
Communications Chair (Ukoh Umah):
- Waiting for calendar and officer pictures for website
- Trying to resolve the HKN e-mail account
- Amy was just placed in charge of the listserv, needs to add Ukoh as an owner
Tours/Coffee Shop Chair (Keong Kam):
- Needs folder containing officer duties
- Will hold coffee shop this week
- Needs access to lab
Marketing Chair (Zach Johnson):
Fundraising/Service Chair (Lance Rucker):
- Sending e-mails to companies about the HKN company banquet
- Company banquet is scheduled for Sept. 26, beginning around 6pm
- Reservations still need to be made
- Dynetics, John Deere, and Garmin plan to attend; still waiting on Boeing, ADTRAN, Anheuser-Busch, and Hunter Engineering
- Companies will make short (5-minute) presentations
Conference Chair (Adam Flynn):
- UMR will hold one of two regional conferences this year (the other is at Berkeley)
- Conference will be held Nov. 2-4
- Gave an overview of the schedule of events
- Working on getting corporate sponsors
- Initiation will be on the Sunday of the conference for the benefit of new chapters
Advisors
No advisors present