Engineers Without Borders

October 3rd, 2007 Board Meeting

October 3, 2007 at 8:12 pm | In Meeting Minutes | Comments Off

Engineers Without Borders Board Meeting

October 3rd 2007, 7:00pm

Kelley 2057

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

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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.

 

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