EGSA at UCLA

Social feedback, refund approvals

Meeting canceled by Angela

Clarified EGSA operations, outlined backup venue plans for social event.

Outlined plans for fall town hall meeting and social event, made plans to update EGSA display board.

Introduced the new Executive Board. Talked about the last events of the quarter.

The last appointments will be approved in person in the next meeting.

Planning on Meet and Greet as well as Town Hall.

Some more planning on the Meet and Greet lunch we’ll have. Also discussed importance and need for renewed interest in Calendar and Web Site content. Everyone was given an action item and looks like next week we’ll have a much more involved web site.

Patrick, EGSA TEC Director, gave us an update on the great work TEC has been doing and they have a our deepest respect and gratitude for their hard work.

A quick meeting discussing and planning this quarter.

We realized that next year will be a complete clean slate. As a result, a lot of effort will go into promoting and getting new officers to fill positions. Consequently, a new Meet and Great event has been created for this purpose. In the event, we’ll provide lunch for interested students who would like to become an officer and join the EGSA family.

Community Outreach Director and Secretary, Vanessa, reported on her volunteering at a High School’s Science Fair and through this interaction a new opportunity for students to get involved helping high school students has emerged. More information on this resource/opportunity in the weeks to come. Stay tuned.

Short meeting to approve various expenditures made for the incoming students’ social last week (March 6th, 2009)

EGSA

Incoming Students Social will provide free drinks and pizza to incoming and existing UCLA graduate students. A banner will be created to advertise Library Alehouse, as a thank you for providing EGSA free beer for this event. The social will be held on March 6th, 5-7pm on the Eng IV 2nd floor patio.

Tech Forum Meeting

The next Tech Forum Meeting will be held on March 10th at 10:30 to 11:30am in the Rice Room. EGSA President Olmo Maldonado will attend to discuss EGSA’s potential involvement in the Tech Forum.

UCLA Technology Forum

EGSA will provide volunteers to help run the event. Abstracts are due March 23rd. A projected 150 posters will be presented at the Forum. Tasks will be assigned for EGSA to help out with.

Incoming Students Social

Pizza, empanadas and beer will be provided free of charge to prospective UCLA students. ULCA Career Center card-it system will still be used. The event will be held on Eng VI 2nd floor patio on March 6, 2009.

Community Outreach

David presented a possible outreach project, formulated as a class for EGSA students to participate in. The project will also be presented to the Dean. This class/outreach program is modeled after Project Brainstorm. Students will go to a high school and present engineering demos to enhance interest in the field of Science and Engineering. High School students will also be bussed to UCLA for a tour and to partake in activities, possibly during E-week. Need to formulate a class syllabus. David hopes this class/outreach program will become a permanent part of EGSA. It is projected to begin January 2010.

GSA Mixer

EGSA will purchase pizza from Dominos for event.

EGSA

EGSA will help with the CIA info session. The event will be held at noon in ENG V 2101. EGSA officers will take part in a Challenge Course as a team building exercise on Feb. 21st.

Lounge Renovations

EGSA lounge has seen greater activity in recent quarters. Approximately 1057 students have used the access key to enter the lounge to date.

GSA Professional Mixer

Will be held o Eng IV 2nd floor patio on Feb. 19th, 2009 from 5-8pm

EGSA

Challenge course for EGSA officers on Feb. 21th, 2009 EGSA will help run CIA Infosession Feb 25th at noon

Meeting held 2/3/2009.

Meeting to prepare for the social

Some of the highlights for the meeting are as follow:

EGSA TEC

EGSA TEC came in to do a presentation on their progress and work to come. We are looking forward to working in conjunction with their offers in efforts to promote/cultivate Entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering.

EGSA

Jamal introduced a new event that EGSA could be part of. The idea is to start a mentorship program, where senior or experienced graduate students help incoming students get familiar and more involved with the school. He will formalize a proposal and bring it to the table next quarter.

Meetings

Olmo reported on upcoming opportunities and involvement for EGSA. Efforts with the Higher Education Office to improve and initiate surveys and statistics of student satisfaction, so that EGSA and the school of Engineering can use this resource as a platform for their development.

This meeting is an update on previous meeting’s minute. We discussed the new action items for the last purchases of the lounge renovations. Including the announcement of a survey to be sent out to the students to get feedback about what items should be placed in the Study Area of the Lounge.

Some discussion was in regards to the GSA Forum of last night and how we should start to take advantage of the discretionary funding as well as services that are provided by GSA for the general graduate students. For example, the Graduate Student Resource Center should try to serve the Engineering community much more intimately.

Lastly, there’s urgency to sign forms and get the logistics finalized for funding and payments of purchases.

EGSA Officers Board Meeting

EGSA Board Meeting

The meeting centralized over the new web site design and assignment of content. Action Items were reviewed and updated and a new small project has been created to deal with the communication problems that GSA and EGSA are having with students, SAOs, and the rest of the community.