SWE Minutes from 9-27-04

Upcoming Events
-group photo during the next meeting 10-4
-selling Top Ten Reasons tees Wednesday (9-29) through Friday (10-1) at lunch and dinner (except dinner Friday)
-prof dinner with Orwin Tuesday 10-5
-group bonding: bowling alley tour and bowling mid-afternoon Friday 10-22

Top Ten tees
-pass sign up sheet around to sell shirts
-Alice will email to students-l about t-shirts
-69 shirts left to be sold
-need cashbox, Shawna will take care of it

Prof Dinners
-Orwin will be happy to do it but can't next Thursday
-will take 7 students on Tues 10-5
-passed around a signup sheet, more than 7 students signed up

Group Bonding: Bowling!
-Upland Bowl will set up a tour whenever we want, but need to know soon enough to get a tour guide
-We will go on a tour of the bowling alley and bowl afterwards mid-afternoon on Friday 10-22
-SWE will probably be able to pay for games, but should look into any group discounts and see about expected cost

National Labs
-reports on luncheon
-Los Alamos will be happy to get speakers to come when they're in the area
-JPL, Boeing, etc. went well

SWE Counselor
-national SWE regulations advise we find a counselor for our section
-a woman professional engineer as a contact in the industry
-may want a Mudd alumn and/or someone from JPL
-don't need to see the person very often
-Bassman suggested April Field (Mudd alumn 2000), was on WEST conference panel one year, 50/50 chance she's in SWE
-someone will check with the alumni office about April or any other suggestions

Leadership Skills Workshop
-not much interest, possibly due to time constraints
-suggest she come in for a presentation during a meeting (more support for this)

Extraneous
-want members to sign up for national SWE (SWE L.A. gives us $ for number of members, you can put it on your resume)
-Kevin will take a group photo of us during the meeting, so be prompt
-regional SWE asked for our website so we're sending them the address