Engineers Without Borders

Board Meeting October 31st

Kelley 2056

Members attending in person:

Nick Hogle, Kendra Seniow, Evan Miles, Katie , Jesse B, Doug Van Bossuyt, Rob Hess, Brad Eagleson, Kelly Wilson, Aparna Shrivasta, Jessica Varin, John Sessions.

1. El Salvador Project
   1. Additional travelers
      1. Additional traveler justification – Jessica

Estimated Number of people days was assigned to each task that the project team would like to see implemented. The initial list has 129 people days listed with 36 days deficit. To supplement the deficit different ideas were generated: add more travelers, change time frames, reduce systems implemented, assign work to be completed beforehand, complete fewer potters for peace assessments.

The idea is to utilize the community manpower from houses that get rainwater catchment systems. The estimated cost per traveler is around $1100.

1. 1. 2. Board votes to approve/deny additional travelers (includes funding tickets)

It is decided that the full board less those who have applied for travel will vote. Vote passes 10-0 with three abstained due to applications to travel.

1. 1. 3. Selection committee info

Thursday at 6pm. Kendra, Jessica, Doug, Rob, Dr Sessions and potentially Brian Wood or John Gambatese will comprise the selection committee

1. 2. Summary of traveler prep work

Evan will summarize the traveler prep work for us to look at to conserve time.

1. 3. Status of preparations (airline tickets, vaccinations, in-country arrangements, etc)

The most pressing upcoming item is purchasing airline tickets.

1. 4. TAC review Status

Carl is heading a tac review presentation adding the new travelers and Aaron our new professional. We will wait to purchase plane tickets until we have tac approval.

2. Fundraising
   1. Brad & Kendra B. now grant writing committee
      1. OSU Student Foundation $$$ for airline tickets

Brad should have that written and submitted this weekend.

2. 1. 2. CoE funding request

Upcoming

2. 2. Need a new fundraising coordinator

Katie and Lyndsey may be interested. Katie will discuss it wil lyndsey and get back to the board.

2. 3. Banquet coordinator(s) for next year?

To facilitate beginning planning of next years banquet to ensure that we have better pick of dates and such.

2. 4. Football parking

Last weekend they couldn’t get football parking volunteers last weekend. The next opportunity will be two weeks from now.

2. 5. Thank you letters for banquet

The banquet committee will deal with finishing this. Rob will draft a letter for approval at the next general meeting.

3. IT Report

There is a lot of disorganization and duplicated documents on the STAK drive currently. Nick has a web for reorganizing it and potentially have a readme to facilitate everyone keeping things structured.

The new website system will have the current external site and internal site. The internal site will include the wiki, document search and file access to the things on stak. Nick had 4 people who made themselves available to work on the IT committee.

Rob will take care of cleaning up the public HTML site and reorganizing the photo gallery.

4. Organic Growers Project Update

A huge Success; there are photos of the currently on Facebook. Most of the work was completed with 3-4 hours more of work for this Saturday. The gutters need to be plumbed to the barrels and the barrels need to be given downspouts. Next Wednesday Nick will give a brief presentation on the event.

5. Membership Update

Nick got a list of addresses and phone numbers for the paid members. Before we submit membership to national we will make sure we have the board having paid. The fees got updated to $400 but we haven’t been received.

6. Speakers for next meeting

· Permaculture presentation- potentially invite Organic Growers Club

· Crystal Clear Technologies

· Jesse will speak on the Wind Turbine Project

7. Wind Turbine Potential Project Update

The general idea is to use the wind turbines to create lighting for security. They will need several different types of engineers and some non-technical work to be done also. Jesse thinks that it would be a idea to mesh his chapter with ours, creating another project committee for EWB.

8. Public Relations
   1. Additional/continued tasks needing support

We have one person who expressed interest in helping at the last general meeting. Currently Adriane seems to be busy but we should search out some one to help in a coordinator position and help.

8. 2. Purchase of easels/display boards for meetings and booths

To have a nice presentation at events like the banquet and other events. It would cost $50-$70. Also have a vinyl banner made. Unanimous decision to proceed with this.

8. 3. More pamphlets

Rob can print 100 or so on engineering campus.

8. 4. Business Cards
   5. Beaver Open House

Nov 17^th there will be the student event on campus.

9. Habitat for Humanity Update

Currently Brian Wood has been difficult to contact. Katie will be looking into getting his contacts and communicating with them directly.

10. Constitution Changes
    1. Reorganization of the organization structure
    2. Position Descriptions
    3. Additional item(s) for constitution
11. Positions
    1. Booth Coordinator
    2. Rotary liaison
    3. Others
12. Partnering with University of Cantabria
    1. How do we do it

The idea would be to have them as a sister chapter where they had their own project and us do our own. Then we share project workers on our projects between El Salvador and hopefully their project in Africa.

12. 2. Who will investigate this further- Kendra and potentially Nikhil

Organic Growers Club Project Work Dates Set

Our Organic Grower’s Club project has been officially approved by the OGC, and the first work date will be Sunday, October 28. We will be meeting at 1:00 pm in Kelly Engineering enter (north side entrance). From there we will carpool to the site. For the stragglers, you can meet us at the site, which is the second left after the golf course going east on Hwy 34. Here is a map.

A second work date is scheduled for Saturday, November 3, at 10:00 AM. We’ll meet at Kelley Engineering for for this one, too.

If you don’t know what the OGC project is, check out this post about it.

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General Meeting, October 24

October 24th, 2007, 7:00pm

Kelley 1003

I. Banquet Update and Thanks

Netted around $3000. Special thanks to Kendra Brown and Brad Eagleson

II. Organic Growers Project

Tenatively this Sunday will be the first day of construction on the project with continuing construction next Sunday.

III. Tentative 2 Travelers to El Salvador

Find applications on the website or in your email. Applications sue in Rogers 222 (Dougs lab) by Monday, October 29th.

IV. Football Parking

7-11am and 11-3pm shifts , contact brad to volunteer. You will get a free ticket to the game.

V. Booth at Homecoming Tent

Still need one more person new to the group to volunteer for this Saturday 11-3pm

VI. Polos

Cost is $20.15 for a polo. Travelers to El Salvador should have one.

VII. Dues

Pay 15$ for dues for entire year.

VIII. Featured Speaker - Peter Nunn from Rotary’s Wasrag and Notrh

From North Tillamook County Rotary club.

Peter graduated as a civil engineer in England in 1968. After working around the world(papa new guinea and Australia) “settled” working with Bechtel (London, abu daub i, Beijing, Indonesia, Maryland, ) working in structural design, oil and gas, environmental cleanup, telecommunications, and railways.

Rotary is an organization with 1.2 million members around the world in 32,000 rotary clubs; the motto is service above self. They fund projects around the world through the local clubs in countries around the world. EWB’s and Rotary’s mission overlap in their goals of helping developing communities. In 1985 rotary adopted eradicating Polio from the world; Polio incidence is down to hundreds of people a year in sudan, afganistan, india and egypt. The next project Rotary is looking to is improved drinking water and sanitation. Another program Rotary has good success with is in the area of Micro-finance.

Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group - Purpose to facilitation the completion of water and sanitation projects by local sponsors. This involves looking at setting up a project, scoping considerations, budgeting and funding and looking at sustainability. The funding process works through starting with minimal funding from the local clubs (~$100) and through matching processes from the other local clubs, regional rotary and Rotary International (up to ~$15000).

IX. Breakout sessions

Information Technology

Public Relations

Fundraising

Minutes prepared by: Kelly Wilson, October 24th, 2007

Accepting applications for 2 potential additional travellers

A new application (downloadable below) for the Winter Break 2007 El Salvador Trip is now available. Travelers will be spending December 7th to December 24th traveling or in El Salvador.

We are tentatively seeking up to two additional people for the Winter 2007 traveling team. The final decision to add these positions will be made based on feedback from the community in El Salvador and the EWB-OSU Board of Directors. This trip will focus on the construction and implementation of our project in addition to a continued assessment of community needs.

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Organic Growers Project Presentation

The Organic Growers project, otherwise known as the El Salvador Pilot Project, is drawing close to implementation. For those of you interested in learning more about the Organic Growers project or discovering what the El Salvador project will look like, a presentation outlining the implementation of the project is now available in Power Point format here. Questions on the Organic Growers project may be sent to Nick Hogle.

Project Meeting October 2, 2007

Start Time: 6:30 PM

End Time: 7:30 PM

Attendance: Evan Miles, Nikhil Prem, Kendra brown, Trevor Takaro, Josh Miner, Malia Kupillas, Kelly Wilson, Chris Dunn, Tristan Huff, Nicholas Hogle, Nick Moses, David Rodriguez, Jesse Badart, Robert Elder, Alejandro Nunez, Alfonso Jimenez, Violet Lindstrom, Kelly Vickmann, Kay Mattson, Kelly Kibler, Birdie Cornyn, Jessica Varin, Aparna Shrivastava, Douglas Van Bossuyt

I. Introductions

II. Progress on TAC (Technical Advisory Committee)

A. “Quality control” with national EWB organization

B. Preliminary plans for our upcoming trip due to TAC soon

III. Meeting time & place

A. Changed to Mondays, 6:30 PM, STAG 109

IV. Details about design

A. We must decide what can reasonably be accomplished during the two week winter trip

B. Rejected ideas (for the time being):

1. Pumping rejected by EWB OSU (still considered by community)

2. Large concrete tank rejected by community

3. Small concrete tanks (for schools) are a maybe; household tanks will come first

C. Gutters on each house

1. Roofs must be designed to hang gutters

D. Pipes from gutters to 55-gallon barrels

1. Barrels will help settle sediment and debris out of water

2. Barrels are easier/cheaper to replace than emptying sludge from a large tank

E. Barrels feed to a 5 – 10 kL above ground plastic tank at every house, or group of houses

1. Need answers to some important questions: Location relative to house? Foundations? Excess water overflow?

2. Must be large enough to sustain a family for roughly 100 days

F. Additionally, Potters for Peace filtration pots will remain to clean the water

V. Traveler increase?

A. Five travelers so far

B. Coffee harvest is taking place in December, so it will be difficult to get local volunteers: we may need two more travelers

VI. Organic Growers Club

A. A short-term, local rain catchment project – a test run for the El Salvador project

B. Two attendees are interested in taking over from the main project team

October 17th 2007 Board Meeting

October 17th, 2007, 7:00pm

Kelley 2056

Members attending in person:

Kendra Seniow, Kelly Wilson, Douglas Van Bossuyt, Kevin Boston, Jesse Boudart, Nikhil Prem, Nick Hogle, Evan Miles Brad Eagleson, Kendra Brown, Jessica Varin, Aparna Shrivastana

I.                    El Salvador Project Update and Business- Aparna Shrivastana and Jessica Varin

In the project meeting on Monday we discussed scheduling for the next few months and discussed legacy documents to create on the micro and macro level.

 At this point the scope of the project is to construct up to 3 water systems. The project team will ask for the names of the 3 families ahead of time. The cost of the project will be around $2000/tank. We are asking community members to learn construction of team and community will need to decide who gets what. There will have to be a session on how to treat the tank for repair and sanitation.

Also on the December trip the public health committee will be working to determine: if the community members are using the Potters For Peace pots, the pfp pots functionality, and assessment of the entire scope of the project in terms of helping or hindering the community.

1.      Paul Lorilla, director Isa Mundo, is looking to partner with EWB-OSU. To partner with them we would need to apply through EWB-USA and seek Tac Review to put that into action if we wanted to.

2.      Project Mentorship- There has been some confusion from the Portland Professionals on Professional mentors who may be sent our way. It seems that the email they sent that indicated that the contact us again with actual names. We have a few potential candidates, including Kevin Boston, which we will need to pin down at a future point.

3.      More Travelers- The project team has contacted the community to see if they could logistically accommodate more travelers and to help with working. There are concerns from the Peace Corps coordinator that more workers may make it more difficult to have community buy-in. At this point it is up to the board to decide on whether to send two extra students and fund them. Because we are looking for different skill sets than the original alternates that were selected the project would like to reselect two people. They would manage and select leaders in the community to promote replication of the project.

The cost per traveler is around $2000/person. They will definitely be housed in the community. Idea from Kevin: have one of the traveling members pick coffee to replace the community member’s to free them up to learn on the project.

Approval from board to allow the project team to can begin the application process for 2 travelers with details to be confirmed Actual approval will be granted when more details from the community are gathered concerning the affect the additional OSU members will have on the participation of the community.

4.      Organic Growers Club project. 6×8ft pump shed in field made from concrete bricks. Current project scope is to hand gutters and have downspouts drain into 55gal barrels. Old plan is to put rafter extensions, along which they’d attach gutter. There would be a foundation for the 4 barrels. 1 month in Oregon average rain would fill 150gal gallons or roughly half of barrels. Overflow would be dispersed in pipes. At home depot, PVC pipe fittings were identified.  Tools for construction will be borrowed from everyone working on the project and potentially the organic growers club. The cost of the system is estimated to be around $310. The board approved this expenditure 3-0 and will advise the absent member. Rob will reimburse Nick in future.

II.                  Banquet Update- Brad Eagleson

1.      How many people have confirmed- 64 people confirmed we currently have space for 70 and food for up to 80. Tomorrow at 3 will be the cutoff for guest invitations.

2.      What additional help/volunteers are needed- We currently have more than then we need and some volunteers will be moved to schmoozing.

3.      Program for evening- officially starts at 6pm with or’dorves and marimba. 7pm dinner. 7:45 Michael Campana will speak. 8:15 Carl will speak. Then 8:45 there will be tango music and lessons.

4.      What still needs to be done- Fund request presentation and presentation of past sponsors. Kelly will announce this at the banquet with a prepared presentation.

III.                Fundraising  Update

1.      Football parking- the 27th we will be doing one again.

2.      Grant- Carl has done one and they are working on one.

3.      Funding request from CoE - Write them for tanks, construction and national conference.

4.      OSU student foundation for airline tickets for El Salvador- want to give us plane ticket - Kendra will remind Brad for this next week.

5.      Tracking of fundraising time- Brad will begin this. There is concern that the project traveling members won’t meet their requirements.

IV.               IT coordinator and Wiki-        

Engineering Services provides MediaWiki so Nick has one in the preliminary stages of setup.

V.                 General Meeting Presentations- Jesse Boudart

1.      Topic and speaker for next week - Interest through Rotary WASRAG Stew Martin from Tillamook. He would present on water conservation and generally what rotary does.

2.      Speakers for the rest of the term - Permaculture for two weeks out.

VI.               Report on Potential Wind Turbine Projecct – Jesse Boudart

Faculty mentor advised not implementing a full-size wind turbine unit but to building mount smaller sized units with a wind ramp. The full-sized project would probably need to be moved to the coast, potentially over to the hatfield marine center. The group will be looking into getting permission to set up anemometers lent  by the faculty member for measurements.

Currently OSU doesn’t have money to sponsors this type of project. The sustainability student group, however, gives up to $5000 for these type of projects. It is estimated that a single small scale wind turbine would cost $2000. The turbine could potentially be used to power a set  of lights for security around campus.

For this to be an EWB project it will have to go through a TAC proposal. To get us kicked off Jesse will be drafting a memorandum of understanding and presenting at the November 7^th meeting.

VII.             Fundraising Guidelines and Constitution

Fundraising guidelines and Funding approval guidelines developed by the board last spring will be distributed for board review before submitting to general membership for admission to the constitution. Current constitution will also be distributed.

VIII.           Desired Workshops

The workshops that should be scheduled for this term are a project management workshop by Kevin boston, Dave yeomans project presentation by Evan, and a water quality test kit workshop on a Saturday.

IX.               Membership

82 different people have attended the group meetings. 16 have paid dues.

Nick Taylor is our new membership coordinator. 

X.                 Coorboration with Universidad de Cantabria

The U of Cantabria has expressed interest through NIkhil to potentially cooroborate on our project in El Salvador. They currently don’t  have their own project. Their members would have different, potentially better timed for the community, vacation and would be fluent in Spanish. Nikhil will explore the details more and get back to us. It was presented that having them as a partner organization would make it easier to have a project in Africa.

XI.                Habitat for Humanity

Habitat for humanity will potentially be need volunteers near the end of this term and definitely at the beginning of spring term for a construction project. Nick moses is the hfh coordinator.

XII.             New Morning Rotary of Corvallis

Evan attended a morning meeting for the rotary chapter in Corvallis. They currently have a project in Honduras implementing sand filters for a community of 400 families. They would like to look into supporting our chapter in the future in our international projects. We will look into giving them a presentation later this term and connect with them in March when they are done with their current project to look into funding our project. 

XIII.           Open/New positions

·        El Salvador  Liason between project and board

·        Saftey Officer

·        Trail Restorations Coordinator

·        Wind Turbine committee

·        Booth Coordinator- potentially on PR group

XIV.         Trail Restoration

There will be work in the winter and spring cleaning up debris.

XV.           Website Photos

We will be posting pictures of the board members on the website so that our new members, and old, can begin to recognize the board.

Minutes prepared by:  Kelly Wilson, October 17th, 2007

November 7, 2007 General Meeting

Engineers Without Borders Board Meeting

Nov 7th 2007, 7:00pm

Kelley 1001

1. Announcements

• Two more travelers approved to go on the December trip to El Salvador.
• The Regional Technical Advisory Committee gave the Travel team props for their project plan
• The Organic Growers Club rain water catchment system installation was a success. Go check it out when it rains this weekend out off of Hwy 20.
• Football parking volunteer opportunity this weekend. Contact Katie Bruce to confirm attendence. Two shirts from 7-1 and 1-7.
• Polos available and cost $20.50. Contact Evan Miles to purchase a polo.
  
• Habitat for Humanity project weekend the first weekend back in school winter term. Contact Katie Bruce or Nick Hogle for any questions.
  

2. Wind Turbine Project- Jesse Boudart

1. Identifying Likely Candidates
   1. Potential patent by Dr Walker
2. What it would Power
   1. Security lighting system (higher impact and liability)
      
      1. will need lights and storage
   2. Feed OSU grid
      1. will need inverter
3. Student Involvement -Student lead, engineered and run
   1. Policy group
      1. Pitch idea to Facility Services-to gain access to begin citing and data gathering
      2. Funding
         1. Student Sustainability Initiative- up to $5000 and potentially more depending on impact
            
         2. Keen Sponsorship
      3. Awareness
         1. Education of campus
         2. Environmental
   2. Design
      1. Preliminary Testing
         1. Construct wind ram- can potentially double wind speed
         2. Manometer measurements around campus, measuring wind speed and direction
      2. Pre-feasibility design
         1. Size- generator, blades, tail, swivel support
         2. Top-out speeds to prevent mal-function
      3. Security Lights
         1. load calculation
         2. light mount design
         3. Battery storage system
      4. Part design
         1. Buy or Fabricate parts
      5. Testing System- looking at noise and other parameters
      6. Future
         
         1. Improvement of Old Design
         2. Different Locations such as High Schools
         3. Larger or more complex turbine design/implementation on coast

Minutes prepared by: Kelly Wilson, Nov 7th, 2007

Ted Brekken Speaks at General Meeting, October 10

Engineers Without Borders Board Meeting

October 10th, 7:00pm

Kelley 1003

1. Ted Brekken EECS - Wave Power

Other Faculty that work on this project Annette von Juanne, Bob Paasch, Solomon Yim and Alex Yocochi.

There are 4 main thrust areas

• Researching novel direct-drive energy generators: 5th and 6th prototypes with in ocean testing this summer and building linear test bed
• Development f wave energy demonstration site
• Working closely with ODOE
• Look at ecological environmental impacts

Energy Outlook: World energy consumption is increasing with over 433 quad BTU’s consumed in 2005. With greenhouse gases on the rise, and scientists surmising that this is due to our energy generation practices that produce a lot of CO2, renewable energy sources are coming more into fashion.

It is estimated that if 0.2% of the ocean’s untapped eergy could be harnessed, it could provide power sufficient for the whole world. Ocean energy sources could be tidal, current, temperature gradient, salinity and wave. Wave energy has advantages over other renewables due to higher availability, more predictable and forcastable, and lower viewshed impact. At present wave energy is estimated at 20-30 cents per kwh. This cost is the life-cycle costs divided over total energy produced.

Waves come from the sun heating the earths atmosphere causing wind. The wind causes a waves. Western shores of continents and towards the poles are the strongest winds. In Oregon there is much higher resource of wave power than in the summer ( in summer average wave height is around 1.5 ft and in the winter around 3.5 ft. amount of power is proportional to height of wave squared, this matches our power needs). Currently in Oregon most of our generation is in unpopulated areas, in the east. Our coastlines currently have the energy potential in the range of 13,800MW (460km at 30 kW/m) although only some percentage of this cold be harnessed without affecting the coastline. Oregon has also a goal for 25% renewables by 2025. Brekken thinks that 50% of this could be supplied by wave energy in this time frame. There is a shadowing effect from the wave buoy. At 100ft from buoy wave power is decreased around 6%.

FERC preliminary permit filings for wave projects in Oregon- Finervera, Oceanlink ltd, Douglas County, Lincoln County, and PG&E. Counties are filing aren’t wanting to leave these decisions in the hands of external companies so file for their entire coastline. Most of oregons usable wave power is around 3 miles out. Further out it gets too deep and too far away transfer energy and too close the breakers lose too much energy.

At OSU we have the WESERF (Wallace Energy Systems and Renewables Facility) and the Hinsdale Wave research Lab. The basic wave energy extraction technologies

•  Oscillatingwater column: uses a wells turbine-generator system, Wave gen and oveanlinx have devices functioning in water.
• Wave attenuator: the Pelamis by Ocean power delivery (Scotland) Where the long segmented device bends it runs hydraulic rams to run 3/4 MW for 150M and 3.5 m wide. Three are currently off the coast of Portugal
• Over topping: Creates a narrowing basin that forces water up into a reservoir and the water comes back through generators. Larges is Danish Wave Dragon at 4MW and they are looking to increase to 20MW.
• Point absorber: what OSU is researching. Wave causes buoy with metal coils to move along magnetic shaft. Other designs utilize hydraulic rams whereas OSU’s project is direct drive.

OSU’s goals- device must be survivable, reliable and maintainable. Their approach is to make it as simple as possible which is why they are using the direct drive permanent linear generator. The power output is a pulse power around 25 watts per phase. The unit (seabeav) is 11ft tall by 4 ft wide. Its built to float in 135 ft of water. They will be testing with Finevera off the coast of Newport. The test location is about 1.5miles off of yaquina beach. Fineveras own device is nearby. Their devices is also a point absorber. Their device has a pelton generator that is hooked to s stretchy tube that elongates and pumps a fluid. The device is ballasted so that it will sit fairly far down into the wave so that it can get the resonant effect from the wave cycle.

Wave energy and local community projects. Attractive wave energy sites are about 150 to 200 dt deep which is also good for crabbing ans fishing. A wave energy park would not be fish-able/ PSu is setting aside $10k for crabbing equipment reimbursement because the crab pots will inevitable be tangled and destroyed in wave parks. Currently Oregon coast utilize $20k per square nautical mile per year. The Fishermen in Natural Energy (FINE) in newport is set up for OSU and Newport community members to collaborate on where wave parks could potentially go in. The relationship between FERC and MMS is difficult to deal with because of permitting difficulties (FERC is in charge of Coast and 3 miles into sea and MMS is in charge of the ocean).

This Friday a Linear Test Bed will be arriving and installed here at OSU to test the system better on campus. A 2000 MW grid capacity already exists, likely our system could be built into that. There is a Wave energy Demo center at Hatfield Marine Center which is where would be a good prospect for the National Wave Demo site.

THe Environmental issues are lengthy. The effects of Electromagnetic Fields are numerous ant are attractive/effect some sea life. The Effects from the construction and deployment and services of the cables would be mainly on invertebrates and sea floor structure and creation of sediment plume. The effects of physical structure of the buoy field on the migration of mammals and the antifouling agents entering the system. Also the creating of wave parks could have a positive impact.

There are a lot of projects going on off the Oregon coast. There is a DVD available - Wave power: the potential of Oregon’s Ocean Energy from the Oregon Sea Grant that could be available.

2. Membership Dues and Tshirt and Polos

Contact Evan to pay the 15$ the membership to help pay for our national membership. Also the Polos are currently available for ordering for 22$.

3. Banquet- Brad Eagleson

Still have spots to volunteer. We still need waiters, and food preparation on Friday 12-6 and 6-midnight. Then on Thursday 12-6 preparation for food.

4. Students for Sustainability- Jesse

Their group is going to build a wind turbine here on campus. This will raise awareness on campus on alternative energy. After a show of hands a majority of people
5. Habitat for Humanity - Evan Miles

Katie and Nick are our new Habitat for Humanity Coordinators. In the future we may be able to provide services on a Saturday to help out a local habitat project. After a show of hands it looks like everyone would be interested in lending a hand to habitat.

6. Project Team Meeting- Aparna and Jessica

Next Monday Stag 109 6pm. The Monday after will be the design meetings for technical design.

October 3rd, 2007 Board Meeting

Engineers Without Borders Board Meeting

October 3rd 2007, 7:00pm

Kelley 2057

Board members in attendece: Jesse, Dan, Evan, Katie, Adriane, Doug, Rob, Kendra, Kelly, and Brad

1. Banquet - Brad Eagleson

The banquet committee is still looking for more people to invite. Brad will pursue the OSU foundation, local Aiche professional chapter,and Greg Kliner to get a publicity release. Friday Brad and Kendra will be looking for items to stock the silent auction from local Corvallis artists and vendors. Volunteers will need to volunteer at next week’s meeting.

2. Other Fund raisers - Evan

Have a fund raiser brainstorm time with the fund raising committee and board. The project team will need to volunteer at a minimum 8 hours a month to meet their requirements for travel. Next week after the group meeting we will have time set aside after our meeting.

3. Upcoming Events

Have announcement in barometer next Friday. Potentially have an intro to EWB session before the meeting again next week. Brainstorming for future meeting topics: MPH speaker, Nuclear engineering, Katies business friend, Organic Growers club seminar on rainwater harvesting, permaculture and WASRAG (Water and Sanitation Rotary Action Group).

Have preparing for traveling seminar, potentially at CCCC, preparing people for culture, language and such.

Rainwater harvesting seminar in Eugene.

4. Local Projects - Evan

Brian wood is getting back to us on Benton county activities. Dan Moses, habitat for humanity coordinator, will look into what size of group we can put into this from EWB and potentially other engineering students and/or the university. Katie, Dan and Evan will look into this in a separate meeting with Brian wood.

Evan is also looking into trail restoration projects, which are mostly put on hold until spring. Other projects on the horizon - adair village project, Waterbars restoration, and potentially a partnership with the IH’s Honduras project.

Campus Level projects - Jesse is looking into putting in a wind turbine on campus. After talking with Environmental Task force, they will help us with the political aspects of installation. Shop access for building it would be available in the mechanical dept. There are grants for having “sustainable projects” such as this. Next week at the meeting we could give a announcement to see if we get a group to focus on this.

5. Pay Membership Dues

15$ for year membership to club dues of $400 a club.

6. Workshop

Kendra will be organizing the carpool for everyone to get up to portland together.

Minutes prepared by: Kelly Wilson, October 3rd, 2007