Engineers Without Borders

West Coast Regional Workshop

The West Coast Regional Workshop will be from 7pm Oct 12th to 3pm Oct 14th at Portland State University. This will be a great opportunity for our chapter this year since it is taking place so near us. Doug (vanbosdo@engr.orst.edu) is organizing carpools so when you register please send him an email so that he can allot space for you if you want. Everyone, even if you haven’t attended many, or any, meetings, is welcome to attend. This would be a great opportunity for those who want to learn more about EWB and technical skills that could you with project work. Check out the website for more info and to register. www.ewbwestcoast.org/workshop

Pre-Term Board Meeting

September 19th 2007, 11am
Members Attending: Kevin Boston, Lyndsey Croghan, Doug Van Bossuyt, Aparna Shrivastava

First General Meeting - Wednesday September 26th
–6:30pm : Intro to EWB - An overview of the national and local organization structure and general goals
–7:00pm: Project Presentation & Update
Open Positions
Announcements: Call for Volunteers - banquet, collecting Auction Items, football parking, Beaver Fair, T-Shirt Orders
Pizza Served

Banquet - October 19th
-Invitations almost done
-Room reserved
-Food planned (no alcohol)
-Letters sent requesting silent auction donations, though more items still needed (volunteers will conduct saturday search oct 6th)
-Key Note Speaker Scheduled (water resources)
-Marimba Band reserved
-Volunteer List to be circulated at first meeting
-Thank You’s and better records will be extremely important immediately afterwards (a “thank You” committee)
Regional Conference - October 12-14
-Email Resume for distribution
-Kelly to bring more info next week

Fundraising
-Football (Brad) - bring sign up list to start week, beaver fair, and general meetings
-Casino Night - plan for winter term
*Banquet/Fundraising Committee will begin work on that following the banquet
*May collaborate with Greeks
-Apply to COE and ASOSU for $$ (get budget from Rob and Aparna to form report)

Project - First meeting during week 2 (tentatively Monday Oct 1st)
-ADESCO Letter has been set this summer
-Carl is in good contact with new Peace Corps volunteer Aaron who has compiled good statistics on community demographics and meetings
-December trip may require more OSU volunteers since it is scheduled during coffee harvest
-Community prefers gutter systems and cisterns for each house rather than large central tanks (except maybe at the school)
-Budget is in progress
-There is a professional traveler and at least one professional mentor (Richard Umana)
-TAC - needs to be sent ASAP to buy plane tickets
-Potter’s for Peace pots were very successful - the community will be purchasing more with their own funds (though more $$ is available from us and maybe the middle school)
-End Goal - There is no other project planned for the community beyond the installation of this water system
-Begin investigating the next project - Evan Miles

Recruiting
-Freshman classes in CS/CE/CEM as well as the College of Business and health studies (Kelly Volkmann could help with this angle)

Future Meetings
-Oct 10th - Wave Energy (confirmed)
-Oct 24th - Aparna to contact engineering friend with int’l experience
-Nov 7th - Maybe something public health related? ask Kelly Volkmann
-Nov 28th - Chapter Exchange, maybe with Humboldt State

Local Projects
-Habitat - get more info from Brian Wood, have Evan and maybe Anna pursue
-Trail Clearing (Kevin will pursue for next spring) or Road restoration?
-Make a Difference Day - Does Corvallis participate? Evan (and Lyndsey?) to investigate

T-Shirts for Conference
-Ask Kelly
-Reorder

Workshop
-Practice Rain Water Catchment System Installation
-Find good advisor - carpenter
-Collaborate with Habitat for Humanity and Organic Growers club for expertise and practice building
-Lyndsey will organize
-ASOSU as potential funder

To Do:
Lyndsey - see to the creation of volunteer lists for the auction item search and banquet
- Plan workshop
- Request funding from COE and ASOSU
Aparna - Budget
- TAC
Kendra - forward Lyndsey ASOSU email
- Recruitment
- Talk to Anna/Evan/Brian Wood about HfH
Kevin - Investigate Trail Clearing & connection to Humboldt State
Doug - pursue t-shirts

September 26th 2007 Chapter Meeting

May 7th 2007, 6:00pm

Kelley 1003

1. El Salvador Project Update - Aprana and Carl

Our Chapter is currently working to install an efficient water filtration and delivery system in the mountain communities of Las Mercedes and El Naranjito of El Salvador. These Rural mountain communities have a history of deficient accessibility to potable water. The community identified the problems of diarrhea and undernourishments, distance from the springs and lack of funds for distribution and treatment for water.

Our project has coordinated the communities receiving Potters for Peace filters and is in the process of designing a individual rain catchments system. The community has approved a system that would involve putting gutters on house, 55 gallon barrels and potentially a larger tank with piping and flow control systems. There is also potential for a small concrete tank for the schools.

The organic growers have requested a rain catchments systems that will serve as a test run for our own implementation.

The next project meeting will be next tuesday at 6:30. Aparna will be emailing out the time.

2. Open Positions

There are 5 open positions, public health team leader, habitat for humanity project coordinator, membership coordinator, social activities coordinator, and El Salvador project liason. Contact Doug or Kendra if you would be interested in any of these positions.

3. Banquet - Brad Eagleson

The Banquet funds go to help our project directly. The banquet will be October 19th with the theme of “Around the World”. The food will be latin food and there will be a youth marimba band and there will be dancing with tango lessons. There will be a silent auction that Lyndsey will need help with people to gather information.

We will need several volunteers for this serving food and coming up with people to invite. Tickets cost $50 and tables cost $500.

4. Regional Workshop

October 12th - 14th at Portland State University. Check out the website for more information. Sign up by October 1st for the reduced price and email doug to coordinate driving and accommodations. www.ewbwestcoast.org/workshop

Minutes prepared by Kelly Wilson, September 26th, 2007

South Sister Camping/Climbing Trip

What: Camping at the foot of and climbing South Sister
When: September 28-30, 2007
Where : South Sister (near Mount Bachelor)
Why: To have some fun with your EWB friends!

Cost: $20.00 (Payment will be used for group meals on Saturday night and Sunday morning)

Maximum Capacity: 24 people (first come first serve basis)

Contacts:

Birdie Cornyn cornynt@engr.orst.edu
Douglas Van Bossuyt vanbosdo@engr.orst.edu

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