Engineers Without Borders

General Meeting 10/01/08

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EWB General meeting 10/01/08

Meeting began with introduction of officers

Club background

· We do both international and local humanitarian work

· Not only engineers, we need all different majors

· Overview of our meeting schedule. Emphasized that members don’t need to feel obligated to participate in everything.

· Fifteen dollar fee

Different projects within EWB:

· Sustainable energy initiative (Nikhil)

o New website up. Can be found by searching “OSU SEI” on google.

o Working on a biodiesel project with intent of converting a bus

· Fiji project

o OSU alumni work at this location through the peace corp.

o Village there runs off of diesel, they want to improve upon this either with a replacement (i.e. microhydro) or biodiesel.

o Meetings on Thursdays.

· El Salvador project

o We have implemented rain water catchments and a spring-gravity fed system. This has been going on for several years. Extra work outside of meetings is required to make the projects work. A few trips are planned this year. Meetings are on Mondays in Gilmore 234.

· Wind turbine project-student sustainability

o Project started last year to put wind turbines somewhere on campus to generate power and raise awareness of sustainable energy options.

o An anemometer has been set up to test for effectiveness of turbines.

· All existing projects were started because someone initiated them. We are open to new projects.

Project selection committee: Designed to decide on a new project once we finish working in El Salvador. Anyone can join.

Appointed position openings:

· Taking Jesse’s place as the Student Sustainability coordinator

· Webmaster/IT

· We are open to other suggestions for new positions.

We also need help with PR and especially fundraising.

· Jessica: talked about PR.

o We need a little more work towards raising awareness of our group. This includes on campus, with local businesses, etc.

· Evan-Fundraising is the one thing everybody needs to become involved in at least a little bit.

o The upcoming banquet (Oct. 24) is our biggest fundraiser. Everyone was encouraged to volunteer their time (or convince their parents to go).

o Brainstorm possible fundraisers in groups.

EWB General meeting 10/01/08

Meeting began with introduction of officers

Club background

· We do both international and local humanitarian work

· Not only engineers, we need all different majors

· Overview of our meeting schedule. Emphasized that members don’t need to feel obligated to participate in everything.

· Fifteen dollar fee

Different projects within EWB:

· Sustainable energy initiative (Nikhil)

o New website up. Can be found by searching “OSU SEI” on google.

o Working on a biodiesel project with intent of converting a bus

· Fiji project

o OSU alumni work at this location through the peace corp.

o Village there runs off of diesel, they want to improve upon this either with a replacement (i.e. microhydro) or biodiesel.

o Meetings on Thursdays.

· El Salvador project

o We have implemented rain water catchments and a spring-gravity fed system. This has been going on for several years. Extra work outside of meetings is required to make the projects work. A few trips are planned this year. Meetings are on Mondays in Gilmore 234.

· Wind turbine project-student sustainability

o Project started last year to put wind turbines somewhere on campus to generate power and raise awareness of sustainable energy options.

o An anemometer has been set up to test for effectiveness of turbines.

· All existing projects were started because someone initiated them. We are open to new projects.

Project selection committee: Designed to decide on a new project once we finish working in El Salvador. Anyone can join.

Appointed position openings:

· Taking Jesse’s place as the Student Sustainability coordinator

· Webmaster/IT

· We are open to other suggestions for new positions.

We also need help with PR and especially fundraising.

· Jessica: talked about PR.

o We need a little more work towards raising awareness of our group. This includes on campus, with local businesses, etc.

· Evan-Fundraising is the one thing everybody needs to become involved in at least a little bit.

o The upcoming banquet (Oct. 24) is our biggest fundraiser. Everyone was encouraged to volunteer their time (or convince their parents to go).

o Brainstorm possible fundraisers in groups.